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God's wonderful judgment in Lincoln-shire: or, A dreadful warning to children that are undutiful to their parents : being a true account of the sad end of a young man about seven miles from London, who having been very disobedient, and so unnatural as to strike his own father, and otherwise notorious ill-liver. The devil on Saturday the 22th of March last, visibly appeared to him and thenceforward he fell into dispair of God's mercy, acknowledging that he had given himself to the devil ever since he was ten years old; and so after a fortnights continuance in that miserable condition dyed.

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Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed for L.C., 1679.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Children > Religious life > England > Early works to 1800. Parent and child > England > Early works to 1800. Devil > Early works to 1800.
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