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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.
6. Long and thin streaks of Clouds, sometimes sooner in the day, but chiefly after the setting of the Sun, the Weather in other respects being very clear.
6. Long and thin strakes of Clouds, sometimes sooner in the day, but chiefly after the setting of the Sun, the VVeather in other respects being very clear.
But of all that I have discoursed with, about the late Earthquake, I have not met with one, nor heard of any one that hath, that spake any thing of any of these Signs, before it happened, nor that by recollecting of themselves, do say since that they remember any such fore-••ing sign, that gave to them the least intimation o• it; and the general surprise of all by it, generally acknowledging that the moment before they had not a thought o• such a shaking to be so near. I leave to all to judge, and to their own ⟨p. 33⟩thoughts, whether this Earthquake did arise from Cau•es in Nature, or from the immediate Power and Working of God, the Lord of Nature. And if we see the Immediate Mighty Finger of God in it, to study and pray to know his Mind and VVill by it, or be moved by the moved Earth to confirm more unto his VVill revealed in his Word.
But of all that I have discoursed with, about the late Earthquak•, I have not met with one, nor heard of any one that hath, that spake any thing of any of these Signs, before it happened, nor that by recollecting of themselves, do say since that they remember any such fore-••ing sign, that gave to them the least in•imation o• it; and the general surprize of all by it, generally acknowledging that the moment before they had not a thought o such a shaking to be so near. I leave to all to judge, and to their own