Wonders of the Invisible World

100 THE WONDERS OFIn the mean time, We have no Bowels in us, if we do notCompassionate the Distressed County of Essex, now cryingto all these Colonies, Have pity on me, ye my Friends,Have pity on me, for the Hand of the Lord has Touchedme, and the Wrath of the Devil has been therewithal turnedupon me. But indeed, if an hearty pity be due to any, Iam sure, the Difficulties which attend our HonourableJudges, do demand no Inconsiderable share in that Pity.What a Difficult, what an Arduous Task, have those WorthyPersonages now upon their Hands 1 To carry the Knife soexactly, that on the one side, there may be no InnocentBlood Shed, by too unseeing a Zeal for the Children ofIsrael; and that on the other side, there may be no Sheltergiven to those Diabolical Works of Darkness, without theEemoval whereof we never shall have Peace ; or to thoseFuries whereof several have kill'd more people perhapsthan would serve to make a Village: Hie Labor, Hoc Opusest !what need have we, to be concerned, that the Sinsof our Israel, may not provoke the God of Heaven to leavehis Davids, unto a wrong Step, in a matter of such Consequence,as is now before them ! Our Disingenuous, Uncharitable,Unchristian Reproaching of such Faithful Men,after all, The Prayers and Supplications, with strongCrying and Tears, with which we are daily plying theThrone of Grace, that they may be kept, from what TheyFear, is none of the way for our preventing of what WeFear. Nor all this while, ought our Pity to forget suchAccused ones, as call for indeed our most CompassionatePity, till there be fuller Evidences that they are less worthyof it.If Satan have any where maliciously brought upon