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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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V. V. I do, Sir.
Min. But I wish, that you, and all your miserable Companions here, were more sensible of the Crime, for which you are presently to be chased from among the Living. Robbery, and Piracy! You felt the Light of GOD in your own Soul, condemning you for it, while you were committing of it. All Nations agree, to treat your Tribe, as the Common Enemies of Mankind, and Extirpate them out of the World. Besides all this, and the Miseries you brought on many good people, in their Disappointed Voyages, I am told, that some were Killed in your subduing of them. You are Murderers! Their Blood cries to Heaven against you. And so does the Blood of the poor Captives; [Fourscore, I hear,] that were drowned, when the Whida• was Lost in the Storm, which cast you on Shore
Min. But I wish, that you, and all your miserable Companions here, were more sensible of the Crime, for which you are presently to be chased from among the Living. Robbery, and Piracy! You felt the Light of GOD in your own Soul, condemning you for it, while you were committing of it. All Nations agree, to treat your Tribe, as the Common Enemies of Mankind, and Extirpate them out of the World. Besides all this, and the Miseries you brought on many good people, in their Disappointed Voyages, I am told, that some were Kill'd in your subduing of them. You are Murderers! Their Blood cries to Heaven against you. And so does the Blood of the poor Captives; [Fourscore, I hear,] that were drown'd, when the Whida• was Lost in the Storm, which cast you on Shore
V. V. We were Forced Men.