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Compassions called for. An essay of profitable reflections on miserable spectacles
Compassions called for. An essay of profitable reflections on miserable spectacles. : To which is added, A faithful relation of some late, but strange occurrences that call for an awful and useful consideration. Especially distresses and deliverances, of a company lately shipwrecked on a desolate rock, on the coast of New-England. ; [Three lines of Scripture texts]Compassions called for. An essay of profitable reflections on miserable spectacles. : To which is added, A faithful relation of some late, but strange occurrences that call for an awful and useful consideration. Especially distresses and deliverances, of a company lately shipwreck'd on a desolate rock, on the coast of New-England. ; [Three lines of Scripture texts]
printed by B. Green, 1711
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I Wish, that another Sense may now have the like Operation; That the Ear may also affect the Heart; That when the Heart-affecting Objects your Eyes may find in the World about you, do strike upon your Ears in our Enumeration of them, the Hearers may be Heartily affected with it. My Hearers, You must shut your Eyes, and stop your Ears, & stupefy all your Affections, if you take not an Affectionate Notice of the Things, which ⟨p. 4⟩I am going to set before you. Among the rest, I intend a very Particular Notice of some Observable Things which seem to be Evident Judgments quickly overtaking such as have been given up to more than ordinary Wickedness, both here, and in some other Places.
I Wish, that another Sense may now have the like Operation; That the Ear may also affect the Heart; That when the Heart-affecting Objects your Eyes may find in the World about you, do strike upon your Ears in our Enumeration of them, the Hearers may be Heartily affected with it. My Hearers, You must shut your Eyes, and stop your Ears, & stupisy all your Affections, if you take not an Affectionate Notice of the Things, which ⟨p. 4⟩I am going to set before you. Among the rest, I intend a very Particular Notice of some Observable Things which seem to be Evident Judgments quickly overtaking such as have been given up to more than ordinary Wickedness, both here, and in some other Places.
It was an Ancient Observation; Eccl. VIII. 11. Because Sentence against an Evil Work is not Executed speedily, therefore the Heart of the Sons of Men, is fully set in them to do Evil. But since we have seen more than once the Wrath of God Executed Speedily, and so Dreadfully upon some Evil Workers, it may be Hoped, the Hearts of men will be Affected with it, and the Hearts of some, not so fully set in them to do Evil, as they use to be.