N01600:83
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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Min. Oh! I wish it may be so. I take notice, you have your Prayer Book with […] Forms of Prayer, may […] of use to those who need the Assistances. You have had such put into your Hands; and you have also had the Bible bestowed on you, with Leafs folded unto Psalms, proper for you to turn into Prayers. But after all. A Soul touched with a sense of your Condition, and fired with the Sight of what […] and what you want, and what our SAVIOUR is willing to do for you, will cause you to Pray, beyond that any Forms in the World can do. I am jealous, that what you read sometimes, is rather for an Amusement, than from any real and lively Sentiment raised in you: For some of the Prayers you Read, are not pertinent unto your Condition. Friend, Make that Prayer, O Lord, I beseech then, deliver my Soul! Make that Prayer, O Lord, Gather not ⟨p. 23⟩my Soul with Sinners! Make that Prayer, God be merciful to me a […]. These are Great Prayers, though […] ones Great Prayers, when they proceed from an Heart broken before the Lord.
Min. Oh! I wish it may be so. I take notice, you have your PrayerBook with 〈…〉 Forms of Prayer, may 〈…〉 of use to those who need the Assistances. You have had such put into your Hands; and you have also had the Bible bestow'd on you, with Leafs folded unto Psalms, proper for you to turn into Prayers. But after all. A Soul touched with a sense of your Condition, and fired with the Sight of what 〈…〉 and what you want, and what our SAVIOUR is willing to do for you, will cause you to Pray, beyond that any Forms in the World can do. I am jealous, that what you read sometimes, is rather for an Amusement, than from any real and lively Sentiment raised in you: For some of the Prayers you Read, are not pertinent unto your Condition. Friend, Make that Prayer, O Lord, I beseech then, deliver my Soul! Make that Prayer, O Lord, Gather not ⟨p. 23⟩my Soul with Sinners! Make that Prayer, God be merciful to me a 〈…〉. These are Great Prayers, though 〈…〉 ones Great Prayers, when they proceed from an Heart broken before the Lord.