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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 proper affections on such Spectacles are not yet all fully to the Life Expressed. Something must be produced in the Life. Our Affections must produce Affectionate Resolutions to Do all the Good that we can. We are affectionately to Devise Good, for the Relief of the Heart-affecting Spectacles. Or, the Spectacles are to mind us of some Good that we must Resolve to do for our Selves, or Others. We must be provoked unto some Holy and Useful Resolutions. We must fetch some Good out of Evil Spectacles, Think, Wherein must I be the better, by what I see? Think, What shall I do, that Others may be the Better for what I see?
To Illustrate this matter, there can be nothing so Suitably, nothing so Cogently, set before you, as the Example of the admirable JESUS. To introduce on all Occasions, the mention of His Glories, you know, tis the Spirit, the Study, the Salt of our Ministry.
Our Amiable and Admirable JESUS, ⟨p. 10⟩had often before Him, Heart-affecting Spectacles. How did He Entertain them? We read, He was Grieved. We read, He Sigh'd. We read, He Wept. We read, He was moved with Compassion. His Holy Soul was full of Agony. Oh, How He laid to Heart, the Evil which He saw that the First Adam had brought upon the World! His Heart broke, and bled upon it! When He saw any Good, He Cried out, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven & Earth! And for the Good He did! He went about, still doing of Good. Yea, the Sun in the Firmament, it never did the Good, that was done by this Brighter Sun of Righteousness.