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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.
3 Concl. An Earthquake may in a few Minutes destroy and overturn multitudes of Houses, and sweep away thousands of People. Thus the Intelligence from Jamaica runs: On the 7th of June, 1692 about 12 at Noon happened here [Port Royal] a most terrible Earthquake: It was most violent on the Harbour side, where the Houses all sunk down in a Minutes time, from ⟨p. 46⟩the depth of three to five Fathom Water; in the Streets next the Wharf, the Earth opened it self wide and deep, and instantly gushed out an Inundation of Water, so that many of the […] were drowned.
3 Concl. An Earthquake may in a few Minutes destroy and overturn multitudes of Houses, and sweep away thousands of People. Thus the Intelligence from Jamaica runs: On the 7th of June, 1692 about 12 at Noon happened here [Port Royal] a most terrible Earthquake: It was most violent on the Harbour side, where the Houses all sunk down in a Minutes time, from ⟨p. 46⟩the depth of three to five Fathom Water; in the Streets next the Wharf, the Earth opened it self wide and deep, and instantly gushed out an Inundation of Water, so that many of the 〈…〉 were drowned.
Some People being ignorant of the Nature of an Earthquake, and what Destruction it may make in a few Minutes, set little by the Mercy of being preserved at such a time, and soon wear off the sense both of the Judgment and the Mercy, because it lasted so short a space. But though London was some days in being consumed by Fire, when many Houses were preserved, yet by an Earthquake in a few Minutes it might have been all destroyed: The preventing whereof was the wonderful M••cy and Providence of God, never to be forgotten.