N01264:54
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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What becomes of them, wh• distinguish themselves as the Topping […] of the Town, for Pride, Vanity, Luxury? God soon distinguishes them with abasing Humiliations.
What becomes of them, wh• distinguish themselves as the Topping 〈…〉 of the Town, for Pride, Vanity, Luxury? God soon distinguishes them with abasing Humiliations.
Undutiful Children, Disobedient Children, what becomes of them? Their Days are not long in the Land.
Mockers at Religion; Railers at the Instruments of promoting Religion; tis often seen, that when People arrive to this, Then, their Damnation slumbers not. God smites them; God makes them very Magor-missa•ibs. They go Quickly, and Roaring out of the world; Roaring for the Prayers & Aids of the very Men, whom once they Ridiculed.
And, I pray, what has been the Fate of them, who have Got Riches & not by right? Men who have been False-Dealers; used abundance of Under-hand Dealing; Rapaciously reaching after all that could be got, Right or Wrong; Over-reaching all that they could be too Cunning for; Breaking their Promises; Lying in Debt unto all men, but not letting any manly in theirs; Defrauding the Hireling of his Wages; Hating to do an Honest Thing; Scarce ever doing it, but when Forced unto it. What has become of them? There has been a strange Blast from God upon them. Lo, I have seen them spreading themselves like a green Bay-tree; Yet they have passed away, & lo, they are not.