N01600:192
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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Fourthly; The Loss of the SOUL is horribly Endangered; Yea, without Repentance, the Danger is Unavoidable. And oh! that the awful words of our SAVIOUR, who knew the Worth of a SOUL, were duly considered with us; Mat. XVI. 26. What is a man profited, if he gain the whole World, and Lose his own Soul! We commonly say, One may buy Gold too dear. If the SOUL be bartered away for Gold, verily, we buy Gold too dear! To get Riches and not by Right, is to render the SOUL obnoxious to the Wrath of GOD. A SOUL perishing under the Wrath of GOD, is a Lost SOUL. Such is the SOUL of the Wicked, & of him who in Ill Ways does make Haste to be Rich. No man can Wrong another man, but it may be said of him, He wrongs his own SOUL. A very Unjust man had it said unto him; Hab. II. 9, 10. Woe to him that Coveteth an Evil Covetousness; Thou hast Sinned against thy SOUL. To Lose the ⟨p. 56⟩[…] ⟨p. 57⟩comes at the End of an Unjust Life; This, This will discover the Matchless Folly of all that is not Honestly done in and for the Getting of Riches.
Fourthly; The Loss of the SOUL is horribly Endangered; Yea, without Repentance, the Danger is Unavoidable. And oh! that the awful words of our SAVIOUR, who knew the Worth of a SOUL, were duly considered with us; Mat. XVI. 26. What is a man profited, if he gain the whole World, and Lose his own Soul! We commonly say, One may buy Gold too dear. If the SOUL be bartered away for Gold, verily, we buy Gold too dear! To get Riches and not by Right, is to render the SOUL obnoxious to the Wrath of GOD. A SOUL perishing under the Wrath of GOD, is a Lost SOUL. Such is the SOUL of the Wicked, & of him who in Ill Wayes does make Haste to be Rich. No man can Wrong another man, but it may be said of him, He wrongs his own SOUL. A very Unjust man had it said unto him; Hab. II. 9, 10. Wo to him that Coveteth an Evil Covetousness; Thou hast Sinned against thy SOUL. To Lose the ⟨p. 56⟩