A tossed ship making to safe harbour, or, A word in season to a…A tossed ship making to safe harbor, or, A word in season to a…

READER,

Art thou a friend, or an enemy? Art thou active or passive in the injuries of Zion? If active, know, thou wilt be found to strive against God, ^aand he will be too hard for thee; what can the potsherd do against the rock? whether thou ^bSmite or be Smitten, thou must needs be Broken in pieces; who ever thou art, yet Read, thou may find something here, if not to make thee, yet to mend thee, if not to convert thee, yet to convince thee, and at least restrain thee in thy former way. ^cAll Books are written to mend one, the Book of the heart, and who knows but this may do it. Art thou Passive? art thou a fellow sufferer? Come then, let us sit down, and mourn together, ^dlet us help to weep the tears, and sigh the sighs of a bleeding State! Hast thou considered Ireland? hast thou been there in thy sad thoughts? hast thou observed the murders, cruelties, ruins, and devastations of that place? hast thou heard the sighings of the Prisoners, the scrichings of the Slain, the groanings of the dying —? hast thou taken notice of those thousands of the Saints, (e) whose dead bodies they have given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and whose flesh they have ⟨image 6⟩given to the beasts of the earth, and whose blood they have shed like water upon the ground, and there was none to bury them? Tell me, hast thou been at Ireland's Funerals? Is it not yet dead? we fear it is; yet we hope it's capable of a resurrection, though with Lazarus it lie some days in the Grave, before Christ come and raise it. Hast thou seen all this, and canst thou not weep? come, let us mourn together! God hath made the same Organ both for Seeing, and for weeping; he that sees, must needs Weep. Hast thou observed the miseries of England? That lies a bleeding, though not a Dying: