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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.
This Earthquake made that Impression on the Minds of those that then lived, that an Order of Prayer, and a godly Admonition concerning it, was appointed to be read for the turning of God's Wrath from them, threatened by that terrible Earthquake, by order given from the Queens Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, to be used in all Churches and Households throughout the Realm.
This Earthquake made that Impression on the Minds of those that then lived, that an Order of Prayer, and a godly Admonition concerning it, was appointed to be read for the turning of God's Wrath from them, threatned by that terrible Earthquake, by order given from the Queens Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, to be used in all Churches and Housholds throughout the Realm.
Because this might serve for a Conviction of many prayer less Families amongst us, that were so before the late Earthquake, and are so still; that are ⟨p. 134⟩more fearless of God's displeasure, then those that lived in times of lesser Light, I shall insert so much of it as concerned the Earthquake.
Because this might serve for a Conviction of many prayer less Families amongst us, that were so before the late Earthquake, and are so still; that are ⟨p. 134⟩more fearless of God's displeasure, then those that lived in times of lesser Light, I shall insert so much of it as concern'd the Earthquake.
A Prayer to be used of all Householders, with their whole Family, every evening before they go to bed, that it would please God to turn his Wrath from us threatened in the last terrible Earthquake. Set forth by Authority. —WE most heartily and humbly beseech thy fatherly Goodness to look down from the Throne of the Mercy Seat upon us most miserable and sinful Slaves of Satan, which with fearful and trembling hearts do quake and shake at the strange and terrible token of thy Wrath and Indignation, appearing most evidently to us, by thy shaking and moving