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A sorrowful spectacle. In two sermons, occasioned by a just sentence of death, on…
A sorrowful spectacle. In two sermons, occasioned by a just sentence of death, on a miserable woman, for the murder of a spurious offspring. : The one declaring, the evil of an heart hardened, under and against all means of good. : The other describing, the fearful case of such as in a suffering time, and much more such as in a dying hour, are found without the fear of God. : With some remarkable things, relating to the criminal; proper for all to be informed of. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. ; [One line from Acts]
Boston: printed by T. Fleet & T. Crump for Samuel Gerrish, 1715
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Of her Behaviour in the Time of her Imprisonment, and of the Means used for her Good, there is an Account given in our SERMONS.
The Woman was of a very Violent Spirit; and the Transports and Furies thereof, sometimes were with such Violence, as carried in them, one would have thought, an uncommon Degree of Satanic Energy.
The Woman was of a very Violent Spirit; and the Transports and Furies thereof, sometimes were with such Violence, as carried in them, one would have thought, an uncommon Degree of Satanic Energie.
By and by, she would bewail her Passions, and promise to indulge herself no more in such Passionate Outrages.
By'nd by, she would bewail her Passions, and promise to indulge herself no more in such Passionate Outrages.
One who owns himself to be a Roman-Catholic, affirms to me, that she privately Declared herself unto him, to be in her Heart, of his Religion; ⟨p. iii⟩