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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 I must bring the Spectacle a little nearer. PARENTS, Don't you see your CHILDREN yet Unconverted? Yet alienated from the Life of God? Oh! How can you bear to Look upon such a Spectacle? A Blind Child would be a sad Spectacle. Thy Unconverted Child is Blind: It cannot See the things of its Everlasting Peace. A Deaf Child, would be a sad Spectacle. Thy Unconverted Child is Deaf; It cannot Hear the calls of Heaven. What a sad Spectacle were a Dumb Child? Thy Prayerless Child is a Dumb one. A Child Shrieking with the Stone, were a sad Spectacle; enough to break an Heart of Stone. ⟨p. 40⟩There is a Stone in the Heart of thy Child, that will not be persuaded unto Religion. Yea, an Unconverted Child is one Possessed with the Devil. O Mournful, Mournful Spectacle!
But I must bring the Spectacle a little nearer. PARENTS, Don't you see your CHILDREN yet Unconverted? Yet alienated from the Life of God? Oh! How can you bear to Look upon such a Spectacle? A Blind Child would be a sad Spectacle. Thy Unconverted Child is Blind: It cannot See the things of its Everlasting Peace. A Deaf Child, would be a sad Spectacle. Thy Unconverted Child is Deaf; It cannot Hear the calls of Heaven. What a sad Spectacle were a Dumb Child? Thy Prayerless Child is a Dumb one. A Child Shrieking with the Stone, were a sad Spectacle; enough to break an Heart of Stone. ⟨p. 40⟩There is a Stone in the Heart of thy Child, that will not be perswaded unto Religion. Yea, an Unconverted Child is one Possessed with the Devil. O Mournful, Mournful Spectacle!
But, how should an Heart be affected with such a Spectacle? How! Be concerned, Extremely concerned, for the Salvation of the Unconverted ones, and therefore for their Conversion from the Error of their Way.