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The converted sinner. The nature of a conversion to real and vital piety: and…
The converted sinner. The nature of a conversion to real and vital piety: and the manner in which it is to be prayed & striven for. : A sermon preached in Boston, May 31, 1724. In the hearing and at the desire of certain pirates, a little before their execution. : To which there is added, a more private conference of a minister with them. ; [Two lines of quotation]The converted sinner. The nature of a conversion to real and vital piety: and the manner in which it is to be pray'd & striv'n for. : A sermon preached in Boston, May 31, 1724. In the hearing and at the desire of certain pirates, a little before their execution. : To which there is added, a more private conference of a minister with them. ; [Two lines of quotation]
Boston: printed for Nathaniel Belknap, 1724
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
THEY especially set a Brand upon the Sin of Drunkenness, as what led unto all Sin, & would quickly Drown People in all Perdition.
THEY charged all who might be so Unhappy as to be taken by the Pirates, rather to suffer any Death immediately, than hearken to them, and Comply with them.
IT is reported, That one of them, understanding that his Dead Body was to be kept and Hung in Iron in a Gibbet, Said upon it; ⟨p. 49⟩Now a Righteous GOD is going to fulfil that Word; THE EYE WHICH DESPISES TO OBEY A MOTHER, THE RAVENS OF THE VALLEY SHALL PICK IT OUT, AND THE YOUNG EAGLES SHALL EAT IT.
IT is reported, That one of them, under•tanding that his Dead Body was to be kept and Hung in Iron in a Gibbet, Said upon it; ⟨p. 49⟩Now a Righteous GOD is going to fulfil that Word; THE EYE WHICH DESPISES TO OBEY A MOTHER, THE RAVENS OF THE VALLEY SHALL PICK IT OUT, AND THE YOUNG EAGLES SHALL EAT IT.