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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.
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.
Use I. Earthquakes, when armed with the wrath of God, and come with his Commission to destroy, are one of the sorest Judgments whereby he Executeth his Vengeance, and manifesteth his hot Indignation against sin and sinners upon Earth. Our Lord Jesus ranks these with the most dreadful and terrible Judgments ⟨p. 47⟩and Punishments that befall the World.