N01600:86
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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Br. Special Sins! Why, I have been guilty of all the Sins in the World! I know not where to begin. I may begin with Gaming! No, Whoring, That Led on to Gaming; and Gaming Led on to Drinking; and Drinking to Lying, and Swearing, and Cursing, & all that is bad; and so to Thieving; And so to This!
Min. You ought now to Die Warning of all People, against these Paths of the Destroyer. I will say to you, but this one thing more. GOD has distinguished you from your Drowned Brethren, by giving you a Space to Repent, which was denied unto them. I am Sorry you have made no Better use of it. It may be, the ⟨p. 24⟩Space has been given, because GOD may have some of His Chosen, among the Six Children of Death. GOD forbid, that the Space must be of no use to you, but only to aggravate you Condemnation, when you appear before Him.
Min. You ought now to Dy Warning of all People, against these Paths of the Destroyer. I will say to you, but this one thing more. GOD has distinguished you from your Drowned Brethren, by giving you a Space to Repent, which was denied unto them. I am Sorry you have made no Better use of it. It may be, the ⟨p. 24⟩Space has been given, because GOD may have some of His Chosen, among the Six Children of Death. GOD forbid, that the Space must be of no use to you, but only to aggravate you Condemnation, when you appear before Him.
IV. Min. Hoof; A melted Heart would now be a comfortable Symptom upon thee. Do you find any thing of it.
IV. Min. Hoof; A melted Heart would now'be a comfortable Symptom upon thee. Do you find any thing of it.