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Earthquakes explained and practically improved occasioned
Earthquakes explained and practically improved occasioned by the late earthquake on Sept. 8, 1692 in London, many other parts in England, and beyond sea / by Thomas Doolittle ...
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1693
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.
6. Long and thin streaks of Clouds, sometimes sooner in the day, but chiefly after the setting of the Sun, the Weather in other respects being clear.
6. Long and thin strakes of Clouds, sometimes sooner in the day, but chiefly after the setting of the Sun, the Weather in other respects being clear.
But of all that I have discoursed with, about the late Earthquake, I have not met with one, nor heard of any one that hath, that spake any thing of any of these Signs, before it happened, nor ⟨p. 64⟩that by recollecting of themselves, do say since that they remember any such fore going sign, that gave to them the least intimation of it; and the general surprise of all by it, generally acknowledging that the moment before they had not a thought of such a shaking to be so very near. I leave to all to judge, and to their own thoughts, whether this Earthquake did arise from Causes in Nature, or from the Immediate Power and Working of God, the Lord of Nature. And if we see the Immediate Mighty Finger of God in it, to study and pray to know his Mind and Will by it, or be moved by the moved Earth to conform move unto his Will revealed in his Word.
But of all that I have discoursed with, about the late Earthquake, I have not met with one, nor heard of any one that hath, that spake any thing of any of these Signs, before it happened, nor ⟨p. 64⟩that by recollecting of themselves, do say since that they remember any such fore going sign, that gave to them the least intimation of it; and the general surprize of all by it, generally acknowledging that the moment before they had not a thought of such a shaking to be so very near. I leave to all to judge, and to their own thoughts, whether this Earthquake did arise from Causes in Nature, or from the Immediate Power and Working of God, the Lord of Nature. And if we see the Immediate Mighty Finger of God in it, to study and pray to know his Mind and Will by it, or be moved by the moved Earth to conform move unto his Will revealed in his Word.