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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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II. Look Abroad. There is a world of SIN committed in the world; This is the most General, but indeed the most Sorrowful Spectacle, in the world. We read, 1 Joh. V. 19. The whole World lies in wickedness. The World is Drowned in Ignorance, in Corruption. Satan, the Wicked One, Rules: When he goes to and fro on the Earth, and walks up and down in it, he does little other than go in Progress through' his own Dominions. Idolatry Reigns Superstition Reigns, Vice Reigns; Oppression, Fraudulence, Impurity, all manner of Wickedness. Few Nations have any really or visibly Godly People in them. The Body of Mankind are in Actual Rebellion against God; Actually up in Arms against the Things that are Holy and Just and Good. Where any Godly People are to be met withal, they are but Few; A Little, Little Flock! Their Enemies fill the Country's. The World hates them; They are most Unreasonably Persecuted by the World.
II. Look Abroad. There is a world of SIN committed in the world; This is the most General, but indeed the most Sorrowful Spectacle, in the world. We read, 1 Joh. V. 19. The whole World lies in wickedness. The World is Drowned in Ignorance, in Corruption. Satan, the Wicked One, Rules: When he goes to and fro on the Earth, and walks up and down in it, he does little other than go in Progress thro' his own Dominions. Idolatry Reigns Superstition Reigns, Vice Reigns; Oppression, Fraudulence, Impurity, all manner of Wickedness. Few Nations have any really or visibly Godly People in them. The Body of Mankind are in Actual Rebellion against God; Actually up in Arms against the Things that are Holy and Just and Good. Where any Godly People are to be met withal, they are but Few; A Little, Little Flock! Their Enemies fill the Countrey's. The World hates them; They are most Unreasonably Persecuted by the World.
In our Nation, what Abominable Things are done continually! Our late King, often spoke it unto the Clerk of his Closet; That he found the English Nation a very wicked Nation. Great Britain, is a very Polluted Island; a Land full of Bloody Crimes. There goes up a Cry from that Land, in the Ears of the Lord of Sabaoth; Such a Cry that we may stand amazed at the Patience of Heaven, that it is Reprieved from fearful Desolations; we may tremble to see the Predictions of our Famous Hooker making such Approaches towards a dreadful Accomplishment. [See, His Life, in Magnalia Americana, Book III. Pag. 62, 63.]