N01484:21
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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But, I ought now if I can, to Refresh my Readers, with something that shall be more Agreeable, more Comfortable; have less to Trouble them; something that may be the Reverse of so shocking a Spectacle, as has here given Troublesome Idea's unto them.
Looking among my Reserved Memorials, I find an Excellent Handmaid of the Lord, a bright Candidate of the Heavenly Glory, finishing her Holy Life, in such Remarkable Circumstances, that I cannot withhold a Brief Relation of the Matter.
Looking among my Reserved Memorials, I find an Excellent Handmaid of the Lord, a bright Candidate of the Heavenly Glory, finishing her Holy Life, in such Remarkable Circumstances, that I cannot withold a Brief Relation of the Matter.
Some while ago, there died in our Salem, a Gentlewoman whose Name was Mrs. Rix, the Daughter of the Reverend Mr. Skelton, (one of the ⟨p. v⟩Two first Ministers, that Illuminated the First of the Churches in the Massachuset Colony;) A Gentlewoman of Real Piety, and of equal Patience; and one who had been a Disciple of the Cross, and had endured much Affliction, especially by Sickness, with much Submission to the Will of God. Some while before she died, her Valuable Pastor, (the Reverend Mr. Nicholas Noyes,) gave her a Visit, wherein the Holy Minds of both, had their grateful Entertainments. Particularly, she told him, That there had newly appeared unto her, several Shining Persons, who told her, That they were not now come for her, but on that Day six Weeks hence, they would come for her, and fetch her away with a Glorious Equipage. And then she immediately asked her Pastor, I pray Sir, what is the meaning of the Word EQUIP AGE? I don't remember that I have heard that Word EQUIP AGE!—Her Pastor with his usual Wisdom, (tho' wondering at what she said, and pondering […]