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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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Appendix: An Appendix. Relating certain Modern, and very Remarkable Occurrences.
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An Appendix. Relating certain Modern, and very Remarkable Occurrences.
The Drinking & the Swearing Atheist Spoken to.
¶ WE have seen among our Selves more than once, the Quick Desolations, with which the Wretches, who abandon themselves to Debauchery and Profanity have been overwhelmed. I am willing to fetch over into America, some Ultra-Marine Examples of the like Desolations, upon the like Offenders; and such as have been within our own Memory, and well-attested.
¶ WE have seen among our Selves more than once, the Quick Desolations, with which the Wretches, who abandon themselves to Debauchery and Profanity have been overwhelmed. I am willing to fetch over into America, some Ultra-Marine Exemples of the like Desolations, upon the like Offenders; and such as have been within our own Memory, and well-attested.
Theodorus Paludanus, a Protestant Minister in Friesland, has given us an astonishing Relation, of what happened in his Neighbourhood, in June, 1681. A Mason much ⟨p. 46⟩given to Drunkenness, especially with Strong Liquors, was often in Vain reproved for it, by the Ministers. He would sometimes Vow a Reformation, and in his Vows & Pangs, wish that the Devil might Si upon him, if he Sinned any more. He Sinnd on; And, behold, In the midst of a Night, when he had, with one or two more in the Evening Drank Three Quarts of Wine, he was found all on a Light Flame; whereof no Account could be given. He was all Burnt from Head to Foot, like an Over-roasted Fowl, and yet the Clothes he had upon him not Singed at all. The Historian says, God used the Devil, as the Executioner of His Judgment, to bring the Miserable mans own Curse upon him!