Page:Strange and wonderful account of the wicked life, and deplorable death of Mr Alexander Parkinson.pdf/5

 sins and seemed very penitent he begged he might have absolution, which he received after their manner, and desired the priest to make all the particulars of this affair public in hopes it may be a warning to all who hear of his deplorable death, that they may leave off their evil ways & turn to the Lord while it is to-day, lest they repent when too late: the messenger is now come I must to my everlasting habitation, when he said these words he laid down & died. Very remarkable was the day on which he was buried, for those it accompanied him to the place of interment was like to be destroyed by wind & rain; & what was still more remarkable, when they came to the grave it closed up & would not receive him as tho' he deserved better to be hung in chains than to ly among christians, so they were obliged to dig him another.

And when the thousand years are expired Satan shall be loosed out of prison, &c.

T is undoubtedly for mens' sins that the prince of darkness is permitted to