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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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Preface.
WE read of such a Remarkable Thing once falling out; Psal. CV. 41. He opened the Rock, and the Waters gushed out. O Heart of Mankind; What art thou but a Rock? Harder than the Rock; than the Nether Millstone. The Essay we are now upon, is to Smite the Rock. Heart-breaking Objects are in this Essay brought unto the Readers. May the Issue be, that the Smitten Rock, shall break and flow. Let the Waters of agreeable Tears now Gush out; The Tears of Repentance for thy own Miscarriages, O Sinful Man; and the Tears of Compassion for the Miscarriages and Miseries of Other Men. Come, Take a Prospect of Aceldama; make it become a B•chim.
WE read of such a Remarkable Thing once falling out; Psal. CV. 41. He opened the Rock, and the Waters gushed out. O Heart of Mankind; What art thou but a Rock? Harder than the Rock; than the Nether Milstone. The Essay we are now upon, is to Smite the Rock. Heart-breaking Objects are in this Essay brought unto the Readers. May the Issue be, that the Smitten Rock, shall break and flow. Let the Waters of agreeable Tears now Gush out; The Tears of Repentance for thy own Miscarriages, O Sinful Man; and the Tears of Compassion for the Miscarriages and Miseries of Other Men. Come, Take a Prospect of Aceldama; make it become a B•chim.