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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.
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 Hous•s 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.
Seventhly; Infectious Diseases, Plague and Pestilence are sometimes the Effects of Earthquakes: For the matter of Earthquakes is Pestilential, because subterraneous, or under Ground, wanting wind and motion to purify it; this therefore when it doth exhale & breath out, or break forth doth infect the Air, and Men by taking in that infected Air, are infected by it In Scripture Earthquakes and Pestilence are set down together, as sore and heavy Judgments; God grant that London, England, and all paces that have been shaken by this late Earthquake might so fear and tremble before this Great, Almighty God, as to Repent and turn from sin to God, […] this his Call so lately, powerfully, and mercifully given, that after the Earthquake the Plague and Pestilence might not follow.