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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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IV. The Afflicted that are about us in our next Neighbourhood; These are Spectacles that we have near unto us; before our Eyes; Heart affecting Spectacles. We read, Psal. XLI. 1. Blessed is he that Considers the Poor. There are those that Consider, who ⟨p. 24⟩are the Poor, and Consider, what may be done for them. If you look about you with a Considerate Eye, you may See some Sick & Weak; perhaps they are Chastened with Pain, with strong Pain. You may see some Conflicting with Poverty. I certainly know, that there are some Scores in this Town, real Objects of Charity, on that one Score of Straitening Poverty. There are many more, whose Afflictions are heavy. Can there be so many Widows, and so many Orphans, and not very many under sore afflictions? Many there are, whose Temptations make them Cry to us, Have Pity on me, O my Friends, Have Pity on me; You see what an Hand has touched me!
IV. The Afflicted that are about us in our next Neighbourhood; These are Spectacles that we have near unto us; before our Eyes; Heart affecting Spectacles. We read, Psal. XLI. 1. Blessed is he that Considers the Poor. There are those that Consider, who ⟨p. 24⟩are the Poor, and Consider, what may be done for them. If you look about you with a Considerate Eye, you may See some Sick & Weak; perhaps they are Chastened with Pain, with strong Pain. You may see some Conflicting with Poverty. I certainly know, that there are some Scores in this Town, real Objects of Charity, on that one Score of Straitning Poverty. There are many more, whose Afflictions are heavy. Can there be so many Widows, and so many Orphans, and not very many under sore afflictions? Many there are, whose Temptations make them Cry to us, Have Pity on me, O my Friends, Have Pity on me; You see what an Hand has touched me!