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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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Yea, I am to tell you, That you have seen Two Things in this World, sometimes happening to some of your Self-murdering Brethren, which may give you awful Intimations of what you must Expect more dreadfully to suffer in another World.
Yea, I am to tell you, That you have seen Two Things in this World, sometimes hapning to some of your Self-murdering Brethren, which may give you awful Intimations of what you must Expect more dreadfully to suffer in another World.
One thing is. You have seen them Seized by Evil Spirits; hurried out of their Lives, by the undoubted Energy & Agitation of Evil Spirits. Into the Hands of such Evil Spirits will you one day be cast, by the Indignation of God. And Oh! how horribly will they handle you! Souls, You will be in the Place of Torments, when you are in the Place of Dragons.
One thing is. You have seen them Siezed by Evil Spirits; hurried out of their Lives, by the undoubted Energy & Agitation of Evil Spirits. Into the Hands of such Evil Spirits will you one day be cast, by the Indignation of God. And Oh! how horribly will they handle you! Souls, You will be in the Place of Torments, when you are in the Place of Dragons.
But None, Oh, None in such Danger of having Satan Enter into them, as those Prodigies, who when they have been Blaspheming of God, and Debauching of themselves, will a few Hours after Presumptuously come unto the Table of the Lord. It may be feared, Satan will so Enter into them, that they shall anon be astonishing Spectacles!
But None, Oh, None in such Danger of having Satan Enter into them, as those Prodigies, who when they have been Blaspheming of God, and Debauching of themselves, will a few Hours after Presumpteously come unto the Table of the Lord. It may be fear'd, Satan will so Enter into them, that they shall anon be astonishing Spectacles!