Earthquakes explained and practically improved occasioned

What may be inferred and learned from this?

What may be inferred and learn'd from this?

1. May we not learn the certain Existence of the Deity? Doth it not follow there is, and must be a God? if we may argue from an Effect to a Cause, when there is an Effect that cannot be ascribed to any Creature, must there not be a Being that is, and is no Creature? when things are done, that are not done by finite power, must there not be an infinite power by which they are done, when there is no medium betwixt that which is finite and that which is infinite? when any thing is effected, of which no natural Cause can be named, must there not be a supernatural? Aaron ⟨p. 48⟩at God's command stretched out his hand with his Rod, and smote the Dust of the Earth, and it became Lice in Man and in Beast; all the Dust of the Land became Lice throughout all the Land of Egypt; and when the Magicians did so with their Enchantments to bring forth Lice, and could not, did not these Magicians themselves say unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God? Exod. 8. 17, 18, 19. When there have been such shakings of the Earth that no Man can say, and prove what he saith, that they were done by second Causes, may not, should not every Man say, in these was the finger of God? If you cannot gather there is a God by what he doth by Creatures, cannot you conclude there is a God, when things are done, and not by Creatures?

1. May we not learn the certain Existence of the Deity? Doth it not follow there is, and must be a God? if we may argue from an Effect to a Cause, when there is an Effect that cannot be ascribed to any Creature, must there not be a Being that is, and is no Creature? when things are done, that are not done by finite power, must there not be an infinite power by which they are done, when there is no medium betwixt that which is finite and that which is infinite? when any thing is effected, of which no natural Cause can be named, must there not be a supernatural? Aaron