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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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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?
Such Sights we have had among us. But, How should our Hearts be affected with them? Truly, so Affected as to be Cautioned. Oh, Beware, Beware of the Impieties, which you see Punished by God. When Corah was fearfully Swallowed up with an Earthquake, we read; Numb. XVI. 34. All that were round about them, fled at the Cry of them; for they said, Lest the Earth swallow us up also. Verily, the Sinners whom you have seen swallowed up, with the Scattering and Consuming Judgments of God, and who have Perished from among the Congregation, make a fearful Cry in our Ears. At this Cry, Oh, Fly from their Impieties, and say, Lest the Judgments of GOD swallow us up also!
Such Sights we have had among us. But, How should our Hearts be affected with them? Truly, so Affected as to be Cautioned. Oh, Beware, Beware of the Impieties, which you see Punished by God. When Corah was fearfully Swallow'd up with an Earthquake, we read;