First, Earthquakes cause great Consternation in the ⟨p. 34⟩minds of men, and fill their hearts with fear. When God makes the Earth to shake under them, he makes their hearts to tremble within them. When the Earth shakes and moves they cannot stand upon it without fear. One Earthquake causeth many thousand Heart-quakes Did not many thousand People in London in its late Earthquake (tho' through God's great Mercy so short) feel great tremblings within themselves when they felt the Earth to shake under them, and saw their Houses move this way and that way over them, and could not tell whether they would stand or fall; nay, when so many thought & said, their Houses would not stand but fall? Were you not then under great Consternation, when you thought those Houses you had slept in, you must not only so quickly die in, but be buried in them too: That the Houses you had built or rented to shelter you from Storms and Tempests, should bring that Destruction upon you, which many Storms and Tempests had not done? Have not you of late years heard terrible and roaring Thunderings, God Thundering with a Voice which none can imitate? Have you not seen great Flashings of Fire and Lightnings, which made the Night like Day, that you said you could see to take up a small thing from off the ground, and were not you then glad you had an House over your head? But when this late Earthquake was, were not you afraid because you had an House over your head, when you thought it would fall upon your head and whole Body? And when this Earthquake was, did you not make as much haste to get out of it, as in Storms and Tempests you ever did to get into it? Is this already forgotten? What! so soon! It is hard to express the fears that many then were filled with, and it is sad to see how little God is feared ⟨p. 35⟩since by many that then did fear so much. Beside your own late Experience, Sacred Scripture, as well as Historical Writers, do Record the fears of Men in times of Earthquakes, 1 Sam. 14 15 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. Behold! a quaking Earth, and therefore a trembling People. Behold!
First, Earthquakes cause great Consternation in the ⟨p. 34⟩minds of men, and fill their hearts with fear. When God makes the Earth to shake under them, he makes their hearts to tremble within them. When the Earth shakes and moves they cannot stand upon it without fear. One Earthquake causeth many thousand Heart-quakes Did not many thousand People in London in its late Earthquake (tho' through God's great Mercy so short) feel great tremblings within themselves when they felt the Earth to shake under them, and saw their Houses move this way and that way over them, and could not tell whether they would stand or fall; nay, when so many thought & said, their Houses would not stand but fall? Were you not then under great Consternation, when you thought those Houses you had slept in, you must not only so quickly die in, but be buried in them too: That the Houses you had built or rented to shelter you from Storms and Tempests, should bring that Destruction upon you, which many Storms and Tempests had not done? Have not you of late years heard terrible and roaring Thunderings, God Thundering with a Voice which none can imitate? Have you not seen great Flashings of Fire and Lightnings, which made the Night like Day, that you said you could see to take up a small thing from off the ground, and were not you then glad you had an House over your head? But when this late Earthquake was, were not you afraid because you had an House over your head, when you thought it would fall upon your head and whole Body? And when this Earthquake was, did you not make as much haste to get out of it, as in Storms and Tempests you ever did to get into it? Is this already forgotten? What! so soon! It is hard to express the fears that many then were filled with, and it is sad to see how little God is feared ⟨p. 35⟩since by many that then did fear so much. Beside your own late Experience, Sacred Scripture, as well as Historical Writers, do Record the fears of Men in times of Earthquakes, 1 Sam. 14 15 There was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison and the spoi•ers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it waes a very great tremb•ing. Behold! a quaking Earth, and therefore a trembling People. Behold!
