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Earthquakes explained and practically improved
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, M.A. The author also of the treatise on the Lords-Supper. ; Jamaica's miseries show London's mercies. Both compared.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, M.A. The author also of the treatise on the Lords-Supper. ; Jamaica's miseries shew London's mercies. Both compared.
printed by Benjamin Harris & are to be sold, 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.
Quest. 4▪ What are the usual Antecedent Signs of an approaching Earthquake given by Natural Philosophers, which by Observation and Experience they commend unto us.
If these signs of Natural Earthquakes be sure and constant, let it be considered, and let us reflect whether any such were taken notice of by any, before the late Earthquake in London, and in other places; if not, either these Philosophers are under a mistake, or we must judge, that this late shaking of this City was from the more Immediate Hand of God; if there were, yet the presence and working of second and natural causes, ought not to take us off from the minding and observing of the first, for as much as all the second are at the Command, Ordering, and Disposal of the first, and are all under the Government of the Providence of God, and the Voice and Call of the first and second Causes is, that we should Repent and turn from those sins that have provoked him to such sore Displeasure, to so great Wrath and Anger, as to make the Earth to shake and tremble under us.
1. One fore-going sign of an Earthquake, they teach, is, a certain troubling of Waters in the deepest Wells, and in Fountains, having then a Tincture of a Sulphureous taste, and an infected and stinking ••vour: Because from the subterraneous ⟨p. 32⟩commotions the Waters in the Wells must needs be troubled Therefore […] reported of P•• recides the Phi••soph•r, that b• Wa•er drawn out of a Well, he […] foretold the Lacedaemonians the Ruin of the City by an Earthquake