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Useful remarks. An essay upon remarkables in the way of wicked men
Useful remarks. An essay upon remarkables in the way of wicked men. : A sermon on the tragical end, unto which the way of twenty-six pirates brought them; at New Port on Rhode-Island, July 19, 1723. : With an account of their speeches, letters, & actions, before their execution. : [Two lines from Deuteronomy]
printed by T. Green, 1723
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
How many of the Dying Pirates have you seen Mourning at the Last, because of their giving themselves up to the Vice, about ⟨p. 25⟩which you are forewarned of GOD, At the last it will bite like a Serpent & sting like an Adder? Their Excessive Cups have been worse than Rats-ba•e in their Bowels, when GOD has come at length to put His Cup of Trembling into their Hands. Having Marked this in the Way of the wicked men, Will you not have done with the Intoxicating Bottle? and the Pot wherein your Death will be met withal? What will you bring all sorts of Woes upon your selves, & go Staggering on to Ruin, with a Shameful spewing upon all your Glory?
How many of the Dying Pirates have you seen Mourning at the Last, because of their giving themselves up to the Vice, about ⟨p. 25⟩which you are forewarned of GOD, At the last it will bite like a Serpent & sting like an Adder? Their Excessive Cups have been worse than Rats-ba•e in their Bowels, when GOD has come at length to put His Cup of Trembling into their Hands. Having Marked this in the Way of the wicked men, Will you not have done with the Intoxicating Bottel? and the Pot wherein your Death will be met withal? What will you bring all sorts of Woes upon your selves, & go Staggering on to Ruine, with a Shameful spewing upon all your Glory?
How many of the Dying Pirates have you seen wringing their Impure, Filthy, Unchaste Hands at their Death, & with an unutterable Dolour declaring that they found the Stings, which the Abominations of Unchastity left upon their Souls, to be More Bitter than Death? Having Marked this in the Way of the Wicked men, will you make your Hearts like Ovens, that shall have Irregular Desires ever Burning in them, till GOD make your Souls like a Fiery Oven, by the Scorches of His Anger there? Will you Prostitute your Bodies to detestable Actions, till GOD cause your Carcasses to come under a speedy Putrefaction? Shall the Spirits which entered the Swine of Old, hurry you down into the Deep? Why will you take the Coals in your Bosom, and anon have that