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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 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!
Another thing is this. You have seen the Rage and Force and Fire of a provoked Conscience in them. When Conscience has been Provoked and Awaked in them, they have been a Terror unto themselves, and unto all round about them. They have chosen Strangling rather than Life! If you go on, you must undergo the Tortures of a Conscience, which will be as a Worm that never dies, a Fire that never shall be quenched. And such a wounded Spirit, Oh, Who can bear it! Who can bear it!
Consider these things. Let your Eye affect you Heart! After such Spectacles, Oh, Hear & Fear, & do no more so Wickedly!