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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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When our Eye shows us a Miserable Spectacle, it must affect our Heart with Commiseration. We should heartily Commiserate the Miserable; our Heart should be touched with a Compassion for them. So we read, Job XXX. 25. Did not I weep for him that was in Trouble? Was not my Soul grieved for the Poor?
If there be Sin joined with Misery in the Spectacle, there must be Anger, there must be Anguish, joined with the Compassion. We must be angry & not sin; we must therefore be angry at sin. Our Heart must be ⟨p. 8⟩Affected with a just Indignation at every Sin. So we read, 2 Pet. II. 7, 8. Just Lot was Vexed with the filthy Conversation of the Wicked; That Righteous man dwelling among them, in Seeing and Hearing, Vexed his Righteous Soul from day to day, with their unlawful Deeds.
If there be Sin joyned with Misery in the Spectacle, there must be Anger, there must be Anguish, joyned with the Compassion. We must be angry & not sin; we must therefore be angry at sin. Our Heart must be ⟨p. 8⟩Affected with a just Indignation at every Sin. So we read, 2 Pet. II. 7, 8. Just Lot was Vexed with the filthy Conversation of the Wicked; That Righteous man dwelling among them, in Seeing and Hearing, Vexed his Righteous Soul from day to day, with their unlawful Deeds.
Nor is this all the affection that is now called for. When we see Sin committed, we should be moved with Fear. Sin does Expose men to the Judgments of God. When we see Sin, we should Fear, lest the Judgments of God befall the Sinner; yea, and those that are about him also. Thus we read;