Profitable Reflections ON Miserable Spectacles. Made at BOSTON. Lecture. 28. d. 10. m. 1710.

Profitable Reflections ON Miserable Spectacles. Made at BOSTON. Lecture. 28. d. 10. m. 1710.

Lam. III. 51. Mine Eye Affecteth mine Heart.

I Wish, that another Sense may now have the like Operation; That the Ear may also affect the Heart; That when the Heart-affecting Objects your Eyes may find in the World about you, do strike upon your Ears in our Enumeration of them, the Hearers may be Heartily affected with it. My Hearers, You must shut your Eyes, and stop your Ears, & stupefy all your Affections, if you take not an Affectionate Notice of the Things, which ⟨p. 4⟩I am going to set before you. Among the rest, I intend a very Particular Notice of some Observable Things which seem to be Evident Judgments quickly overtaking such as have been given up to more than ordinary Wickedness, both here, and in some other Places.

I Wish, that another Sense may now have the like Operation; That the Ear may also affect the Heart; That when the Heart-affecting Objects your Eyes may find in the World about you, do strike upon your Ears in our Enumeration of them, the Hearers may be Heartily affected with it. My Hearers, You must shut your Eyes, and stop your Ears, & stupisy all your Affections, if you take not an Affectionate Notice of the Things, which ⟨p. 4⟩I am going to set before you. Among the rest, I intend a very Particular Notice of some Observable Things which seem to be Evident Judgments quickly overtaking such as have been given up to more than ordinary Wickedness, both here, and in some other Places.