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Pillars of salt. An history of some criminals executed in this land, for capital…
Pillars of salt. An history of some criminals executed in this land, for capital crimes. : With some of their dying speeches; collected and published, for the warning of such as live in destructive courses of ungodliness. : Whereto is added, for the better improvement of this history, a brief discourse about the dreadful justice of God, in punishing of sin, with sin. : [Two lines from Deuteronomy]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1699
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Pillars of Salt.
IT hath been Thought, that the Dying Speeches of such as have been Executed among us, might be of singular Use, to Correct and Reform, the Crimes, wherein too many do Live; and it has been wished, that at Least, some Fragments of those Dying Speeches, might be preserved and published. Upon this Advice, from some Good Persons, I have Stolen an Hour or Two, wherein I have Collected some Accounts, of several Ill Persons, which have been Cut off, by the Sword of Civil Justice in this Land: and this Collection, I suffer to go abroad, in Hopes, that among many other Essays to Suppress growing Vice, it may signify something, with the Blessing of Heaven thereupon, to let the Vicious understand, what have been the Cries of our Miserables, when passing into another World. Behold, an History of Criminals, whom the Terrible Judgments of God have Thunder struck, into Pillars of Salt.
IT hath been Thought, that the Dying Speeches of such as have been Executed among us, might be of singular Use, to Correct and Reform, the Crimes, wherein too many do Live; and it has been wish'd, that at Least, some Fragments of those Dying Speeches, might be preserved and published. Upon this Advice, from some Good Persons, I have Stollen an Hour or Two, wherein I have Collected some Accounts, of several Ill Persons, which have been Cut off, by the Sword of Civil Justice in this Land: and this Collection, I suffer to go abroad, in Hopes, that among many other Essayes to Suppress growing Vice, it may signifie something, with the Blessing of Heaven thereupon, to let the Vicious understand, what have been the Cries of our Miserables, when passing into another World. Behold, an History of Criminals, whom the Terrible Judgments of God have Thunder struck, into Pillars of Salt.