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• The Prodigal daughter or the disobedient lady reclaimed : In five parts I. Shewing how a rich lords daughter in Bristol, run away from her father and mother, and how she came home again, and how they stript her of all her pride, giving her there good advice. II. Shewing how the devil appeared to her, and tempt her to poison her father and mother. III. Shewing how an angel appeared to her father and mother in a vision, and forewarned them of her plot. IV. Shewing how she fell in a trance and saw the joys of heaven, and the torments of hell. V. Shewing how she came to herself again, and became a good Christian. Enter'd according to order
  Published: (1775)
• The Afflicted parents : Or, The undutiful child punished. In two parts. Part I. Shewing, how a gentleman living in the city of Chester, had two children, a son and a daughter, who was about two years younger than the son; how the girl gave good advice to her brother, how he rejected it, and knock'd her down, left her for dead, and then went away; how an angel appeared to him, and how he discovered the murder, was taken up, tried, cast, and condemned to die. Part II. Shewing, how he was executed with two highwaymen, being cut down, put in his coffin, carried home to his father's house, and preparing for his funeral, how he came to life again, how he sent for a minister and discovered to him several strange things, which after he had related, was executed a second time, for a warning to all disobedient children. Entered according to order
  Published: (1790)
• The Prodigal daughter. Or, A strange and wonderful relation : shewing how a gentleman of a vast estate in Bristol, had a proud and disobedient daughter, who, because her parents would not support her in all her extravagance, bargained with the Devil to poison them. How an angel informed her parents of their daughter's design. How she lay in a trance four days; and when she was put in the grave she came to life again, and related the wonderful things she saw in the other world. Likewise, the substance of a sermon preached on the occasion by the Rev. Mr. Williams, from Luke XV. 24
  Published: (1790)
• The prodigal daughter; or The disobedient lady : In five parts being a true relation of one Jean Nicholson, the only daughter of a wealthy merchant living in Merchant-street, St James's, London. I. Shewing how she being much indulged by by her parents, fell into all manner of disobedience, wickedness, and debauchery. II How the devil apppeared unto her, and advised her to poison her parents, which she consented to do. III. How her parents were forwarned by an angel of her wicked design, and gave the poisoned meet she had prepared for them to dogs. IV. How at the sight thereof she fell down dead, and was thereupon burried. V. How they heard her, as they were closing the grave, give several groans, at which they broke open the coffin, VI. How she sat up in her coffin, telling the Minister, and several other persons, what strange things she has seen in her trance, concerning the torments of hell; with an account of the comfors and inconceivable glories of heaven
  Published: (1786)
• The weeping mother's garland. In four parts. Part I. The sorrowful Mother's Complaint of a bad Daughter. Part II. The dying Mother's advice to her dear Daughter at the hour of departure. Part III. Seeing her Mother's death she fell into a swoon, in which she lay several hours, with the manner how her spirit was costicated, up and down, and what she saw whilst she lay in this slumber. Part IV. Her good advice to her old consorts, desiring them to amend their wicked lives: concluding with her resolution to serve God 'till the hour of her Death
  Published: (1770)