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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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But then; Secondly; The Heart of such an one, should be Affected into Earnest Essays, to make Haste out of this Condition. O Heart of stone; Be at last, at least, so much Affected as to say, I must not continue in this Condition! I Resolve that I will immediately Cry to the God of all Grace, that He would ⟨p. 14⟩bring me out of this Horrible Pit! An Heart suitably Affected with the Mischiefs and the Dangers of Unregeneracy, will immediately fall down before the Lord, with a Supplication, the Cry where of shall reach and pierce the very Heavens; That Supplication; Psal. CXVI. 4. O Lord, I beseech thee, Deliver my Soul. A Person whose Heart is Affected with the doleful Chains of Darkness, which Unregeneracy holds him in, will Immediately fly to the only Saviour; Immediately Plead the Sacrifice of his only Saviour, that God may be Reconciled unto him; Immediately lay hold on the Righteousness of his only Saviour, that he may stand in that with safety before the Judgment-seat of God; Immediately Embrace the Laws of the Holy Lord, as the Rules of his Life; and Enter into Covenant with God; Comply with all the Articles in the Covenant of Grace; Cry out, Lord, I am Thine, save me. O Unaffected Heart; How canst thou bear, to let thy Soul remain an Exile from God, a Brand of Hell, a Prey to Devils! Let the sight which thine Eye gives thee in thy own Soul, have that Issue; Psal. CXIX. 59, 60. ⟨p. 15⟩I thought on my ways, & I turned my Feet unto thy Testimonies. I made haste, & I delayed not to keep thy Commandments.
But then; Secondly; The Heart of such an one, should be Affected into Earnest Essays, to make Haste out of this Condition. O Heart of stone; Be at last, at least, so much Affected as to say, I must not continue in this Condition! I Resolve that I will immediately Cry to the God of all Grace, that He would ⟨p. 14⟩bring me out of this Horrible Pit! An Heart suitably Affected with the Mischiefs and the Dangers of Unregeneracy, will immediately fall down before the Lord, with a Supplication, the Cry where of shall reach and pierce the very Heavens; That Supplication;