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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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And this Our Land; a Land under such Obligations to be a Land of Uprightness: what prevailing Iniquities threaten the Ruin of it? The Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God, we may see, tis very Little, very Little, Hearkened to. We may see, the Spirit of this World, Eating out, Eating up, the Spirit and Power of Godliness. We may see a Scandalous Dishonesty in the Dealings of too too many. We may see Drunkenness likely to Extinguish all Good Order in many places; and a Flood of Rum and Ruin, Vomited out of the Mouth of the Dragon, likely to swallow up the Woman fled into the Wilderness. We may see the Crimes of Unchastity Debauching too too many; yea, the too well known House of the Harlot resorted to. And we may see many Ungoverned Families, Unnurtured Families; a scandalous Neglect of Household Piety. O horrid Spectacle! Where, where shall we look, and not see such a Spectacle!
And this Our Land; a Land under such Obligations to be a Land of Uprightness: what prevailing Iniquities threaten the Ruine of it? The Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God, we may see, tis very Little, very Little, Hearkened to. We may see, the Spirit of this World, Eating out, Eating up, the Spirit and Power of Godliness. We may see a Scandalous Dishonesty in the Dealings of too too many. We may see Drunkenness likely to Extinguish all Good Order in many places; and a Flood of Rum and Ruine, Vomited out of the Mouth of the Dragon, likely to swallow up the Woman fled into the Wilderness. We may see the Crimes of Unchastity Debauching too too many; yea, the too well known House of the Harlot resorted to. And we may see many Ungoverned Families, Unnurtured Families; a scandalous Neglect of Household Piety. O horrid Spectacle! Where, where shall we look, and not see such a Spectacle!
But, How should our Heart be Affected with what we see?
First; Be sure, Sorrow, Sorrow, is the Affection, which the Spectacle does call for. The sight of Sin, wherever we see it, should always broach our Sorrow. Oh! Let the Sinfulness of the World, and particularly, peculiarly, our part of the World, which lies most nearly before our Eyes, let it affect us at that rate;