N01600:69
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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III. Min. Brown, In what State, in what Frame, does thy Death, now within a few Minutes of thee, find thee.
Brown. Very Bad! Very Bad!
Min. You see your self then a most miserable Sinner.
Br. Oh! most Miserable!
Min. You have had an Heart Wonderfully bardened.
Br. Ay, and it grows harder. I don't know what is the matter with me. I can't but wonder at my self!