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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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This is not all. The sight of the sin in Others, must affect us with a Fear of our Selves. Be afraid, be afraid at what you see. Think, If the Sovereign GOD should leave me to my self, I should soon do as Bad, as the worst in the World. We see no sin any where, but we have in our own Heart, the Seed of that very Sin. Christian, Thou dost not Know thy own Heart, if thou dost not Fear thy own Heart. It is wholesome Advice; 1 Cor. X. 12. Wherefore, let him who thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall.
Finally; Labour to Suppress, to Restrain, to Reform, the provoking Evils that we see. When we see Sin gaining upon our Neighbourhood, it must Affect us, and Excite us to Do what may be done for the Reformation of these Evils. The sight must make us Unite in our Endeavours, according to every ones Ability and Capacity, for a Reformation. Thus, Thus we shall procure a precious Mark from God upon us; That Mark; Ezek. IX. 9. Go through' the midst of the City; set a Mark upon the foreheads of the men that Sigh & Cry for all the abominations done in the midst thereof.
Finally; Labour to Suppress, to Restrain, to Reform, the provoking Evils that we see. When we see Sin gaining upon our Neighbourhood, it must Affect us, and Excite us to Do what may be done for the Reformation of these Evils. The sight must make us Unite in our Endeavours, according to every ones Ability and Capacity, for a Reformation. Thus, Thus we shall procure a precious Mark from God upon us; That Mark; Ezek. IX. 9. Go thro' the midst of the City; set a Mark upon the foreheads of the men that Sigh & Cry for all the abominations done in the midst thereof.