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Title:  Pillars of salt. An history of some criminals executed in this land, for capital crimes. : With some of their dying speeches; collected and published, for the warning of such as live in destructive courses of ungodliness. : Whereto is added, for the better improvement of this history, a brief discourse about the dreadful justice of God, in punishing of sin, with sin. : [Two lines from Deuteronomy]
Author: Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
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into a Bed of Burning Tribulation: And, ah, Lord, Where wilt thou cast those that have com|mitted Adultery with her, Except they Repent! Since her Imprisonment, She hath Declared, That she believes, God hath. Left her unto this Undoing Wickedness, partly for her staying so profanely at Home sometimes on Lords-Dayes, when she should have been Hearing the Word of Chirst, and much more for her not minding that Word, when she heard it. And she has Confessed, That she was much given to Rash Wishes, in her Mad Passions, particularly using often that III Form of spea|king, He be Hang'd, if a thing be not thus or so, and, I'll be Hanged, if I do not this or that; which Evil now, to see it, coming up|on her, it amazes her! But the chief Sin, of which this Chief of Sinnrs, now cries out, is, Her Undutiful Carriage towards her Parents. Her Language and her Carriage towards her Parents, was indeed such that they hardly Durst speak to her; but when they Durst, they often told her, It would come to This. They indeed, with Bleeding Hearts, have now Forgiven thy Rebellions; Ah, Sarah, mayst thou Cry unto the God of Heaven to Forgive Thee! But under all the doleful circumstan|ces of her Imprisonment, and her Impiety, she has been given over, to be a prodigy of still more Impaenitent Impiety. A Little before her 0