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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, 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.
I could add one thing more. There have been Knots of Young Men, who have been Bewitched with the Gaming humour. Riots and Revels have been frequent with them. Anon, some of them have gone to the House, that is the way to Hell, going down to the Chambers of Death. Of the•• also I repeat the Question; What has become of them? God has marvellously Destroyed them. They have marvellously ⟨p. 29⟩come to Nothing! Ah, Young People; Will you not yet say, Destruction from God is a Terror to me?
I could add one thing more. There have been Knotts of Young Men, who have been Bewitched with the Gaming humour. Riots and Revels have been frequent with them. Anon, some of them have gone to the House, that is the way to Hell, going down to the Chambers of Death. Of the•• also I repeat the Question; What has become of them? God has marvellously Destroyed them. They have marvellously ⟨p. 29⟩come to Nothing! Ah, Young People; Will you not yet say, Destruction from God is a Terror to me?