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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.
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.
4 Concl Sometimes an Earthquake may be once in some parts of the Earth, and not return again, sometimes it may repeat its c•urse, and often put the same places into many trembling fits. When the shaking is over once, the bitterness of God's Wrath, and our Ruin might not be past; if the shaking of London should be reiterated, the latter might be more grievous than the former. All these second Causes are ordered and over-ruled by the Providence of God: All the Natural Causes of Earthquakes are subject to God's power, and are at his Beck, command and call; therefore tho' London be safe afer its late shaking, yet let it not be secure, for the same Hand and Power of God that did shake it once, can again, and throw it down.
4 Concl Sometimes an Earthquake may be once in some parts of the Earth, and not return again, sometimes it may repeat its c•urse, and often put the same places into many trembling fits. When the shaking is over once, the bitterness of God's Wrath, and our Ruine might not be past; if the shaking of London should be rei•e•ated, the latter might be more grievous than the former. All these second Causes are ordered and over-ruled by the Providence of God: All the Natural Causes of Earthquakes are subject to God's power, and are at his Beck, command and call; therefore tho' London be safe afer its late shaking, yet let it not be secure, for the same Hand and Power of God that did shake it once, can again, and throw it down.