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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.
First Concl Sometimes there may be an Earthquake in some particular place, and not in others near unto it. The Earthquake which shaked the Foundations of the Prison where Paul and Silas lay, did not extend it self to other places. God that can cause the Rain to fa•l upon one City, and not upon another, can make one City […] when he doth not another.
First Concl Sometimes there may be an Earthquake in some particular place, and not in others near unto it. The Earthquake which shaked the Foundations of the Prison where Paul and Silas lay, did not extend it self to other places. God that can cause the Rain to fa•l upon one City, and not upon another, can make one City 〈…〉 when he doth not another.
2 Conc•. T•• duration and continuance also of an Earthquake is uncertain. Sometimes it may last but a Minute or two, more or le•s; sometimes it may continue Weeks, Months, Years, as some Writers do affirm So some tremblings of the Earth continued after the great damage by the Earthquake in Jamaica in June last past If the Vapours shut up in the Earth, be •or• gross, they do more slowly evaporate or get out, and more difficulty find their passage. If they be more cold, they are also more slow. If they be in greater quantity, the Earthquake may be of a longer continuance, for much is not so soon evaporated, as a little. The Nature of the place also wherein an Earthquake is, may cause the longer or shorter duration of it; for if the surface of the Earth, in whose Caverns the matter of the Earthquake is contained and shut up, be more solid, close and lesser holes, chinks and pores be in it, the Earthquake lasts the longer, by reason of the more slow and difficult evaporation of the matter that causeth it.