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Instructions to the living, from the condition of the dead. A brief relation of…
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.
Boston: printed by John Allen for Nicholas Boone, 1717
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The Sinful People, on whom […] by his Prophets denounced very destroying Judgments for their Sins, were yet very confident of their escaping the Destruction threatened unto them. One Ground of their Carnal Confidence was this; They were a Wealthy People; And they were an Instance of a Proverb, which one of their own Kings had left with them; The Rich Mans Wealth is his […] City, and as an high Wall in his own conceit. My Text pulls down the High Wall of their Strong City, and shows them the Folly of their vain Imaginations. They were a Rich People, 'tis true; But then, what Riches they had, they did not come honestly by them. They got Riches, but not by Right. Their Great Persons had generally got their Great Estates in Ways forbidden by GOD, Ways offensive to GOD: Now it could not be well expected, that such ⟨p. 42⟩[…], or their Estates could be […] things. No; As the Woodcock […] on what it did not lay, so is he that […] Riches and not by Right. But […] Rapacious Bird, What becomes of it? Shall it long enjoy the Nest which it hath so praedatiously seized upon? By no means: He shall leave them in the midst of his Days, and at his End he shall be a Fool. Convinced of his own Folly, he shall call himself, A Fool; and all the World from the Conviction of what they see, shall also agree to call him so.
The Sinful People, on whom 〈…〉 by his Prophets denounced very destroying Judgments for their Sins, were yet very confident of their escaping the Destruction threatend unto them. One Ground of their Carnal Confidence was this; They were a Wealthy People; And they were an Instance of a Proverb, which one of their own Kings had left with them; The Rich Mans Wealth is his 〈…〉 City, and as an high Wall in his own conceit. My Text pulls down the High Wall of their Strong City, and shows them the Folly of their vain Imaginations. They were a Rich People, 'tis true; But then, what Riches they had, they did not come honestly by them. They got Riches, but not by Right. Their Great Persons had generally got their Great Estates in Ways forbidden by GOD, Ways offensive to GOD: Now it could not be well expected, that such ⟨p. 42⟩〈…〉, or their Estates could be 〈…〉 things. No; As the Woodcock on what it did not lay, so is he that Riches and not by Right. But Rapacious Bird, What becomes of it? Shall it long enjoy the Nest which it hath so praedatiously siez'd upon? By no means: He shall leave them in the midst of his Days, and at his End he shall be a Fool. Convinced of his own Folly, he shall call himself, A Fool; and all the World from the Conviction of what they see, shall also agree to call him so.