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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.
But Earthquakes makes no difference betwixt the Rich and the Poor, but swallows up all, and their Money too, and this in a few Minutes, and is not so long in destroying as the Famine is, nor gives that time for preparation for another World, but in a moment many go down into one common Grave.
But Earthquakes makes no diff•rence betwixt the Rich and the Poor, but swallows up all, and their Mony too, and this in a few Minutes, and is not so long in destroying as the Famine is, nor gives that time for preparation for another World, but in a moment many go down into one common Grave.
Use II. Woe then to wicked M•n, when God comes and shakes his Rod over them, whereby he makes the Earth to shake under them, how sorrowful is your case? how dreadful is your condition? what comfort have you to support you in such terror? what refuge have you to fly unto, when God shall enter into such a Judgment with you, and contend with you by shaking the Earth under you, if he proceed thereby to make the Houses fall upon you, or the Earth to open under you, which way will you look for help, or hope, or comfort? above you? behold! there is an angry God, a provoked Lord, a righteous Judge. Round about? behold! your tottering Ho••es, your moving Walls, threatening your Death by their fall. Will you look downwards? behold! the Earth trembles, its Pillars shake, as being weary any longer to bear the burden of ungodly Men that walk upon it; and you fearing when it will cleave asunder and swallow you up. At such a time, had you an interest in God as your reconciled Father, in Christ as your Lord and Saviour, ⟨p. 49⟩in the holy Spirit as your Regenerator and Sanctifier, what sedateness of Mind, what composure of Spirit, what stable hopes might you have of Heaven, when the Earth cannot stand still for trembling? what comfort against your fears, what joy against your sorrows, what remedy against your misery (against which there seems to be no remedy) might you have from your special relation to God as reconciled to you, when he so terribly shows his anger unto others.