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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.
Fifthly; The change of the Channel of the Sea. In the time of Valens the Emperor there happened another terrible Earthquake, whereby an hundred Cities were destroyed in Crete: then also the Sea leaving its place, so overflowed certain grounds, which before were ploughed, became navigable; and in other places where Men sailed, the Sailors in their Navigation were found upon dry Land where before the Sea was.
Fifthly; The change of the Channel of the Sea. In the time of Valens the Emperour there happened another tertible Earthquake, whereby an hundred Cities were destroyed in Crete: then also the Sea leaving its place, so overflowed certain grounds, which before were plowed, became navigable; and in other places where Men sailed, the Sailers in their Navigation were found upon dry Land where before the Sea was.
Sixthly; Another Effect of Earthquakes hath the Convulsion of Mountains, their sinking down, ⟨p. 44⟩their clashing and transportation or removal to a great distance from the places where before they stood. Instances of these History do afford many, but I will only mention one, because more remarkable, how God doth miraculously sometimes preserve praying People, and may move Persons, whose Houses after shaking by an Earthquake stand, to pray therein. In the Year 1584. one Mountain by an Earthquake violently removed, destroyed a Town consisting of ninety Families, & threw down all excepting half of one House, where the Master of the Family, with his Wife and Children, kneeling upon their Knees, were praying and calling upon God.
Sixthly; Another Effect of Earthquakes hath the Convulsion of Mountains, their sinking down, ⟨p. 44⟩their clashing and transportatio• or removal to a great distance from the places where before they stood. Instances of these History do afford many, but I will only mention one, because more remarkable, how God doth miraculously sometimes preserve praying People, and may move Persons, whose Houss after shaking by an Earthquake stand, to pray therein. In the Year 1584. one Mountain by an Earthquake violently removed, destroyed a Town consisting of ninety Families, & threw down all excepting half of one House, where the Master of the Family, with his Wife and Children, kneeling upon their Knees, were praying and calling upon God.