Cain's Lamentations over Abel (1795 Cotton), vision

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Cain's Lamentations over Abel (1795) is a book of visions by Rowland Cotton.

Editions

Published in New York, NY: Printed by Wayland and Davis, for the author, 1695.

Contents

• Book 1. His astonishment at Abel's death, his melancholy relation of the event to Adam and Eve, and his sorrowful separation from his parents when he became a fugitive exile
• Book 2. His conviction and penitence in his solitary retirement, with Satan's appearing to him
• Book 3. The appearance of Abel unto him as a messenger from Heaven, and their discourse
• Book 4. His relfections on Abel's descension and ascension to Heaven and the consolation it produced to his soul
• Book 5. The appearance and discourse of Adam with him from Heaven, Adam's departure, his second apearance to him as the messenger of glad tidings, with Cain's melancholy reflections and doubts in the interval
• Book 6. His patient waiting the will of God to depart from this spot of solitude and earnest desire to see his mother before she goes to his father and brother, with the death of Eve in the presence of Cain.