Instructions to the living, from the condition of the dead. A brief relation of…

Name: Instructions to the living, from the condition of the dead. A brief relation of…
Author: Cotton Mather

Instructions to the living, from the condition of the dead. A brief relation of remarkables in the shipwreck of above one hundred pirates, who were cast away in the ship Whido, on the coast of New-England, April 26. 1717. And in the death of six, who after a fair trial at Boston, were convicted & condemned, Octob. 22. And executed, Novemb. 15. 1717. : With some account of the discourse had with them on the way to their execution. And a sermon preached on their occasion.

Cotton Mather 1663–1728Boston: printed by John Allen for Nicholas Boone, 1717

64 p. ; 13 cm. (8vo) · 10k words · Evans 1901

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WARNINGS TO Them that make Haste TO BE RICH.

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WARNINGS TO Them that make Haste TO BE RICH.

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BOSTON. 27. d. VIII. m. 1717.

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JER. XVII. 2. He that getteth Riches and not by Right, shall leave them in the midst of his Days, and at his End shall be a Fool.

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[…] a very sad […], a very black Tragedy, which entertains us, in a just Sentence of DEATH passed upon a ⟨p. 40⟩Great Number of PIRATES, who have made their wicked Attempts to […] […] and not by Right, and are now […] leave them, and all the World, in the midst of their Days; Their End, and a fearful End is come; in which their Folly is with the most insupportable Stings now charged upon them. What are these PIRATES now, but so many Preachers of those Things; which once they could not bear to hear the Servants of GOD Preach unto them? Unhappy, but Practical, and Oh! why not Powerful, Preachers of the Evil which pursueth Sinners, and of the Destruction and Misery found in the Ways of Ungodliness and of Dishonesty. It will be our Folly, if the Voice of such Warners be not understood, pondered, hearkened to; 'Twill be a proper Exercise of Wisdom, in the Winners of Souls, to make the Voice of their Warnings as Articulate and Effectual, as 'tis possible. My Heare, The Condition of these wretched Men, is to Preach unto you; and I now read

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WARNINGS TO Them that make Haste TO BE RICH.

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