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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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First. Most Certainly, Sin is Folly. How often, how often, has the Wisdom ⟨p. 49⟩of GOD, in his Holy Oracles, called it so? No Man ever Sins, but he transgresses the Rules of Wisdom▪ It may be said of him, as in Prov. V. 23. In the Greatness of his Folly he goes astray. And his Confession must be that, 2 Sam. XXIV. 10. I have sinned in what I have done, and I have done very foolishly.
First. Most Certainly, Sin is Folly. How often, how often, has the Wisdom ⟨p. 49⟩of GOD, in his Holy Oracles, call'd it so? No Man ever Sins, but he transgresses the Rules of Wisdom▪ It may be said of him, as in Prov. V. 23. In the Greatness of his Folly he goes astray. And his Confession must be that, 2 Sam. XXIV. 10. I have sinned in what I have done, and I have done very foolishly.
Now when Riches are not got Honestly, they are got Sinfully. If they are not got by Right, they are got by Sin. The Law of the Glorious God is, Thou shalt not Covet. But there is an Evil Covetousness in them, who get Riches, and not by Right. The Law of the Glorious GOD is, All things that you would have men do to you, do ye even so to them. They who get Riches, and not by Right, are those, who do not as they would be done unto. The Law of the Glorious GOD is, That no man over-reach, or defraud his Brother in any matter. They who get Riches, and not by Right, are such as Over-reach and Defraud their Brethren. Yea, O ⟨p. 50⟩