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Faithful warnings to prevent fearful judgments. Uttered in a brief discourse, occasioned, by a…
Faithful warnings to prevent fearful judgments. Uttered in a brief discourse, occasioned, by a tragical spectacle, in a number of miserables under a sentence of death for piracy. At Boston in N.E. Jun. 22. 1704. : [Five lines of quotations]
Boston, : Printed & sold by Timothy Green, at the north end of the town., 1704
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Shall we begin, with the mention of that, which is the usual Beginning of all Wickedness? That is to say, Sabbath-breaking. Have you not seen Evil Pursuing of Sabbath-breakers? Yes, By breaking the Fourth Commandment they come to the vilest Breaches of all the rest: Evil has often Pursued them to the very Gallows. ⟨p. 31⟩One that was Executed a while ago in London, Earnestly Cried out, O Young People, Don't misspend the Lords Day, Don't misspend the Lords Day; It was that which led me to all my Wickedness. And the Minister that Published the Narrative, has this passage; I do not know (says he,) that ever I observed any Repentance in a Condemned Malefactor, who did not bitterly Lament his Neglect of his Duty to God on His Holy Sabbath. I think, I have my self observed very much to this purpose.
Shall we begin, with the mention of that, which is the usual Beginning of all Wickedness? That is to say, Sabbath-breaking. Have you not seen Evil Pursuing of Sabbath-breakers? Yes, By breaking the Fourth Commandment they come to the vilest Breaches of all the rest: Evil has often Pursued them to the very Gallows. ⟨p. 31⟩One that was Executed a while ago in London, Earnestly Cryed out, O Young People, Don't mispend the Lords Day, Don't mispend the Lords Day; It was that which led me to all my Wickedness. And the Minister that Published the Narrative, has this passage; I do not know (sayes he,) that ever I observed any Repentance in a Condemned Malefactor, who did not bitterly Lament his Neglect of his Duty to God on His Holy Sabbath. I think, I have my self observed very much to this purpose.
Oh! that Notorious Drunkards would come to themselves, and Soberly lay to heart the Evil that is Pursuing of them! They Drown themselves, in a world of Iniquity and Calamity, while they Live; [If one that is Dead-Drunk, may be said, to Live!] And when they Die, tis usually before their Time; they Die Tragically; They come to Tragical Ends, & Grievous Deaths. There is hardly a Town in the Country, but what has had frightful Examples! A Noted Minister in Frie land some few Years ago, Published an Attested History, of a Drunkard, who