Earthquakes explained and practically improved occasioned

3. That there were but these two Men that invaded their Camp, who at first slew about Twenty of them within (as it were) about half an Acre of Land, which filled their whole Army with terror and amazedness, who (as Josephus writes) casting away their Weapons, fled amain: some other being ignorant, which were either their Friends or Foes, invaded one another as Enemies: for imagining with themselves that only two Hebrews durst never ascend and enter their Camp, they addressed themselves to their mutual Murder and Slaughter; so that some of them were slain, others fled to escape the Sword, and fell head-long down the Rocks.

3. That there were but these two Men that invaded their Camp, who at first slew about Twenty of them within (as it were) about half an Acre of Land, which filled their whole Army with terrour and amazedness, who (as Josephus writes) casting away their Weapons, fled amain: some other being ignorant, which were either their Friends or Foes, invaded one another as Enemies: for imagining with themselves that only two Hebrews durst never ascend and enter their Camp, they addressed themselves to their mutual Murder and Slaughter; so that some of them were slain, others fled to escape the Sword, and fell head-long down the Rocks.

4. In this exploit of Jonathan, God did miraculously work, in causing the tremblings that fell out that day, expressed 1 Sam. 14. 15. And there was trembling in the Host, in the Field, and among all the People: the Garrison and the Spoilers they also trembled, and the Earth quaked, so it was a very great trembling. Who made all the Philistines ⟨p. 40⟩Host to tremble, the Garrison and the Spoilers to tremble, only Jonathan and his Armour Bearer? was it not God? and was it not the same power of God, that then made the Earth to quake, that made the other tremble? To put all out of doubt, the last words declare the true cause of all; [Greek or Hebrew] and it was a trembling of God. The reason why the Translators rendered it a very great trembling, is, because the word [God] is added oftentimes to set forth the greatness of things; as great Mountains, great Cedars, great Fire, in Hebrew are said to be Mountains of God, Cedars of God, a Fire of God. But this is but the secondary and consequent signification of it; the Name of God added to any thing primarily and properly denotes that God is the efficient Cause of that to which it is added. It was a trembling of God, that is a trembling sent and caused by God; the trembling of the Philistines, and the trembling of the Earth, was from God: So the Heathens were wont to attribute