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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, 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.
And, Methinks, Charity to the Publick 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.
If all other Charity wax Cold, as I doubt it may; Yet, My Friend, A Little Charity ⟨p. 35⟩for thy self may move a little. By bearing due Testimony against such Criminals, a, Liberavi Animam, is obtained; thou deliverest thy own Soul, from a share in the Guilt of their Transgressions. It is an Easy and a Common Thing, for men to make the Sins of other men their own, by this; They hear them & bewray them not. Because they do not what they may, to have them fairly brought to Light, and Censured, they Contract a Guilty Fellowship in the Unfruitful works of Darkness. It is to be Suspected, very many, very many among us, have lying upon us, the Sins of Other Men, deeply to be Repented of.