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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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The Eye should affect the Heart, when we see with our Eye, what should not be seen without an affected Heart.
First. Wonder not at it, That the World is filled with Heart affecting Spectacles; yea, with Miserable Spectacles.
The First of the Heart affecting Spectacles, is the Worst of them all; that is, The SIN, the SIN of the world: this tis that has brought in the rest. The Sum of the Heart-affecting Spectacles in the world, is that; Lam. V. 16. We unto us, that we have Sinned. First, we see Sin breaking in upon the World; a Flood of Sin, by our Fall from God▪ breaking in, and carrying all before it. O Spectacle full of Horror! O Hard Heart, O Base Heart, that is not Affected with it! The Death which we see to be the ⟨p. 7⟩Wages of Sin; the Evil which we see Pursuing of Sinners; the Wrath of God which we see Overtaking and Overwhelming the Children of Disobedience; This 'tis, that makes every Corner of the world, full of Heart-affecting Spectacles. I am sure, the Redeemer of the World so accounted of them.