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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
Introduction: An Humble WARNING From the Presaging EARTHQUAKE Sept. 8. 1692.
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 Because I Judge (if I err, let my mistaking thoughts be excused) that this late Earthquake was from the immediate hand of God. And yet if it were not, God can use the alleged Natural Causes of Earthquakes, to give warning and to fore-run other following Miseries. But my reason is this, because it did extend it self so far, to so many places in England, and beyond the Sea (according to the Account I have heard) not only on the same day, but at the same time of the day as in […], at London, Sheerness, Sandwich, Deal, Maidstone, Portsmouth, and many other places beyond Sea, at Paris, Mar••, •••sailles, and in Normandy, at Brussels, Cologne, and in most places of Holland and Flanders ▪ Now if it did arise from Natural Causes, there must be exceeding great quantities of such Vapours in the Caves and hollow Places of the Earth, which striving all along so far to get out, it seems very strange they did no where with great fury break out, to the opening of the Earth, and overthrow of some places, where the Earth was weakest. If the quantity was less, taking its beginning in some certain place, and proceeding forward, seeking to get out, but could not, it would have required more time to travail under ground to such distant Towns and Cities, as in England, and so many places beyond Sea, and so could not have been at all, at the same time.
4 Because I Judge (if I err, let my mistaking thoughts be excused) that this late Earthquake was from the immediate hand of God. And yet if it were not, God can use the alleadged Natural Causes of Earthquakes, to give warning and to fore-run other following Miseries. But my reason is this, because it did extend it self so far, to so many places in England, and beyond the Sea (according to the Account I have heard) not only on the same day, but at the same time of the day as in 〈…〉, at London, Sheerness, Sandwich, Deal, Maidstone, Portsmouth, and many other places beyond Sea, at Paris, Mar••, •••sailles, and in Normandy, at Brussels, Cologne, and in most places of Holland and F•anders ▪ Now if it did arise from Natural Causes, there must be exceeding great quantities of such Vapours in the Caves and hollow Places of the Earth, which striving all along so far to get out, it seems very strange they did no where with great fury break out, to the opening of the Earth, and overthrow of some places, where the Earth was weakest. If the quantity was less, taking its beginning in some certain place, and proceeding forward, seeking to get out, but could not, it would have required more time to travail under ground to such distant Towns and Cities, as in England, and so many places beyond Sea, and so could not have been at all, at the same time.