N01264:74
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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!
VI. Are we not Surrounded with Unconverted Sinners? O Deplorable Spectacle! Deplorable Spectacle! Man, Thou art thy self yet Unconverted▪ if thou art not Affected with it. How dismal Spectacles was Egypt once filled withal, when there was not an House in all the Land, wherein there was not One Dead! For many Ages they kept up an Anniversary Commemoration of it, with very dolorous Ejulations▪ Alas, My Friends; It may be feared, there ⟨p. 39⟩is hardly an House in the Town, but there is in it One Dead. In many, they are All Dead; All Dead! People not Converted unto God and Christ and Serious Piety, are, Eph. II. 1. Dead in Trespasses & Sins. Oh! Lay to Heart the Spectacle! If there were Two or Three Hundred Coffins with Corpses in them, laid in the midst of our Assembly, it would be a Frightful Spectacle. As many Unconverted Sinners as are now here, so many Coffins and Corpses there are in the Assembly.