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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.
2 Consciousness of their own Guilt: When the Earth did quake, it did not only wake the Jailer out of his Natural Sleep, but also out of his Spiritual Slumber; Conscience was a•arm'd, as he was affrighted; his Eyes were opened to see a Terrible God above him. Conscience was Awakened to see his Sins within him, & that had been committed by him, an Angry God above, an Accusing Conscience within, and the Quaking Earth under him, filled him with Fear, and Trembling. When Men do Prosper upon Earth, they can Swill, and Swear, and Sin in all their ways, and Conscience holds its peace, is quiet and still, doth not Reprove, Accuse, Judge, or Condemn them; but when Judgments come, an Hardened Pharaoh wil• cry out, I have sinned; a Wicked Saul will confess and say, I have sinned: And when an Earthquake comes, is not he an Hardened Seared Wretch, whose Conscience (though bad yet) is quiet within him, when the Earth is not quiet under him? And whose Conscience is not moved, and troubled for his Sin, when the Earth is moved, as being restless under the Burden of such Sinners? But if Conscience then d•th stir, when the Earth doth tremble, the sinner trembles (for the time) considering God's Anger, remembering his sin that did provoke him to it.
2 Conciousness of their own Guilt: When the Earth did quake, it did not only wake the Jaylour out of his Natural Sleep, but also out of his Spiritual Slumber; Conscience was a•arm'd, as he was affrighted; his Eyes were opened to see a Terrible God above him. Conscience was Awakened to see his Sins within him, & that had been committed by him, an Angry God above, an Accusing Conscience within, and the Quaking Earth under him, filled him with Fear, and Trembling. When Men do Prosper upon Earth, they can Swill, and Swear, and Sin in all their ways, and Conscience holds its peace, is quiet and still, doth not Reprove, Accuse, Judge, or Condemn them; but when Judgments come, an Hardned Pharaoh wil• cry out, I have sinned; a Wicked Saul will confess and say, I have sinned: And when an Earthquake comes, is not he an Hardned Seared Wretch, whose Conscience (though bad yet) is quiet within him, when the Earth is not quiet under him? And whose Conscience is not moved, and troubled for his Sin, when the Earth is moved, as being restless under the Burden of such Sinners? But if Conscience then dth stir, when the Earth doth tremble, the sinner trembles (for the time) considering God's Anger, remembring his sin that did provoke him to it.