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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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My Friend, This, this is the Spectacle before thine Eyes. How canst thou turn away thine Eyes, from the Beholding of it? The first thing that in the Name of God, and for the Love of thy Soul, I demand of thee, is, To consider the state of thy own Soul. Oh! Take Time to do it in secret places.
But then; Shall not Thine Eye affect thine Heart? The Heart of an Unregenerate sinner, should be Affected, first, with an affrighting Astonishment at his own Condition, Sinner, Let thine Eye Affect thine Heart, into that Cry; Rom. VII. 24. O wretched One that I am, who shall deliver me? Think; Oh! The Wretchedness of my present Condition! What, what will become of me, if I Die in this Condition! Retire for such Thoughts. Devote some Time to these Thoughts. If this One Thing were obtained from the Hearers, what an Introduction might it prove, to all manner of Good! Oh! Most Obdurate Heart! If the Condition of thy SOUL will not Affect it, so much as this comes to; not so much as to make thee Think upon it.
But then; Shall not Thine Eye affect thine Heart? The Heart of an Unregenerate sinner, should be Affected, first, with an affrighting Ashonishment at his own Condition, Sinner, Let thine Eye Affect thine Heart, into that Cry; Rom. VII. 24. O wretched One that I am, who shall deliver me? Think; Oh! The Wretchedness of my present Condition! What, what will become of me, if I Dy in this Condition! Retire for such Thoughts. Devote some Time to these Thoughts. If this One Thing were obtained from the Hearers, what an Introduction might it prove, to all manner of Good! Oh! Most Obdurate Heart! If the Condition of thy SOUL will not Affect it, so much as this comes to; not so much as to make thee Think upon it.