Compassions called for. An essay of profitable reflections on miserable spectacles

I now look on it, as a seasonable Discharge of a Duty, to take some Notice of some Astonishing Spectacles, in the Judgments of God upon some, whom Satan seems to have had an uncommon Possession of.

I now look on it, as a seasonable Discharge of a Duty, to take some Notice of some Astonishing Spectacles, in the Iudgments of God upon some, whom Satan seems to have had an uncommon Possession of.

There is a Report of some things Extraordinary ⟨p. 30⟩in some Late Judgments of God. It is likely, there may be various Misrepresentations of many Circumstances attending that matter. I will not therefore depend upon every thing that may be Reported. But I suppose, no body doubts, There has been a very High Degree of Profaneness discovered by some Unhappy Men; and that God presently singled out some of them, in a manner that much Awakened the Neighbourhood. But whether that matter have so much in it, as has been said, or no, yet you may Remember, that a little while ago in this Town, A Poor Woman, was very much Discontented with her own Condition; but she had Recourse unto the Bottle of Rum, to quiet & allay her Discontent. In that, she drowned her Soul; But with the Rum there entered Satan into her; Satan took a strange Possession of her; She imagined she must go where Satan would carry her. Tho' she were carefully shut up, such was the Efficacy of Satan, that he helped her out of a Window, it was thought into the River; but with Circumstances that fill the Neighbourhood with Consternation. Her Carcass was afterwards ⟨p. 31⟩found, where it could scarce have been imagined!

There is a Report of some things Extraordinary ⟨p. 30⟩in some Late Judgments of God. It is likely, there may be various Misrepresentations of many Circumstances attending that matter. I will not therefore depend upon every thing that may be Reported. But I suppose, no body doubts, There has been a very High Degree of Profaneness discovered by some Unhappy Men; and that God presently singled out some of them, in a manner that much Awakened the Neighbourhood. But whether that matter have so much in it, as has been said, or no, yet you may Remember, that a little while ago in this Town, A Poor Woman, was very much Discontented with her own Condition; but she had Recourse unto the Bottel of Rum, to quiet & allay her Discontent. In that, she drowned her Soul; But with the Rum there entred Satan into her; Satan took a strange Possession of her; She imagined she must go where Satan would carry her. Tho' she were carefully shut up, such was the Efficacy of Satan, that he help'd her out of a Window, it was thought into the River; but with Circumstances that fill the Neighbourhood with Consternation. Her Carcase was afterwards