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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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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.
III. The Calamities of the World, the Destructions of the World; Methinks, They are Heart-breaking Spectacles. I now make you that Invitation; Psal. XLVI. 8. Come, Behold the works of the Lord, what Desolations He hath made in the Earth. Look where you will over the face of the whole Earth, you may see the God of Heaven, Distributing Sorrows in His Anger. The Earth under the Curse of God for the Sin of Man, brings forth, Oh! what Thorns unto him! That word is every where fulfilled in the world; Isa. XXIV. 4, 6. The Earth Mourneth & Fadeth away; The Curse has Devoured the Earth, & they who Dwell therein are Desolate. The World is every where full of sad Things! What is the World, but a very Aceldama! In what wretched slavery do most of the Nations Languish? The Negro's in some Country's are a fearful Spectacle. God will consider the Inhumane way of treating 'em! What a Wolf is one man unto another? What Wars do Embroil the World? What Wants Distress it? What Woes Confound it? I beseech you, what are the Relations & Histories of what