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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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But, Sirs; You cast off Charity too! The very Charity pretended for! Did you Rebuke the Delinquent; And on the Rebuke did he promise Amendment? In some Delinquencies, this may go a Good way. But if it has not been so, the best Charity you can show him, is to procure him that Gentle Punishment, which the Laws have provided for him. Tis Charity, to have him thus Admonished, and Checked, & Stopped, in his Fatal Career. God Sanctifies the ⟨p. 34⟩Strokes given by the Sword of the Magistrate. He is the Minister of God for Good, even unto Them, when he is a Terror to Evil-doers. If you let him go on without Control, you Murder him; you see him running on to Perdition, & you do nothing to hinder him. Where's your Charity?
But, Sirs; You cast off Charity too! The very Charity pretended for! Did you Rebuke the Delinquent; And on the Rebuke did he promise Amendment? In some Delinquencies, this may go a Good way. But if it has not been so, the best Charity you can show him, is to procure him that Gentle Punishment, which the Laws have provided for him. Tis Charity, to have him thus Admonished, and Check'd, & Stop'd, in his Fatal Career. God Sanctifies the ⟨p. 34⟩Strokes given by the Sword of the Magistrate. He is the Minister of God for Good, even unto Them, when he is a Terror to Evil-doers. If you let him go on without Controul, you Murder him; you see him running on to Perdition, & you do nothing to hinder him. Where's your Charity?
And, Methinks, Charity to the Public should prevail a little with you. If you knew of a man, that were going to Fire the Town, or to bring the Plague into the Town, would you give no Information of it? Verily, These Criminals are doing so. They do what they can, and it is a Great Deal that they do, to bring down Desolation from the Incensed Wrath of Heaven upon the Town. The Desolations are hastened, by their being left Un-chastised. Chastisements on them, are some of the Sacrifices, which would avert and keep off the impending Wrath of Heaven. Man, Loth to be called, An Ill Neighbour; Alas, Thou art a very Bad Neighbour. All the Neighbourhood is like to fare the worse for thy Pusillanimity.