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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.
5. How little do you know, if this late Earthquake had been a little more, and had lasted a little longer, a few minutes more, how near you and your Houses would have been to a subversion and total overthrow? or how near the trembling Earth might have been to opening, and swallowed up both you and your Habitations? For all that you know by this Earthquake you were upon the brink of ruin, a little more might have brought you down; and yet will you slight this work of God, as if it were a small, a very little thing?
5. How little do you know, if this late Earthquake had been a little more, and had lasted a little longer, a few minutes more, how near you and your Houses would have been to a subversion and total overthrow? or how near the trembling Earth might have been to opening, and swallowed up both you and your Habitations? For all that you know by this Earthquake you were upon the brink of ruine, a little more might have brought you down; and yet will you slight this work of God, as if it were a small, a very little thing?
6. As small a thing as you look upon it to be, could any man, or men, could all the mighty men upon the Earth have caused such a shaking and trembling of the Earth, and all upon it. Could all the mighty Captains, Lord Generals, Kings and Emperors, with all their Armies, have had such an Influence upon the Earth? if they can batter down ⟨p. 24⟩strong Walls, and Cities, and Castles with their Instruments of War, yet can any of them, or all of them, cause such a shaking of the Earth as that so lately was? do you ascribe great things to Men, and call them so, that are far inferior to this, and yet let this pass by with so little observation, as if it were a work so small?
6. As small a thing as you look upon it to be, could any man, or men, could all the mighty men upon the Earth have caused such a shaking and trembling of the Earth, and all upon it. Could all the mighty Captains, Lord Generals, Kings and Emperours, with all their Armies, have had such an Influence upon the Earth? if they can batter down