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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
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Use III. Such special and peculiar Earthquakes which God hath caused for special and peculiar ends, improve to the obtaining of those ends. All the Earthquakes in general do manifest the Glory of the power of God, and God in them doth speak to Men on Earth. They have a voice, & we should have an hearing ear; let's not be deaf to the Instructions that God is giving of us; nor dull to take out the Lessons he is teaching us. Particularly some more observable upon more remarkable occasions, such as these.
Vse III. Such special and peculiar Earthquakes which God hath caused for special and peculiar ends, improve to the obtaining of those ends. All the Earthquakes in general do manifest the Glory of the power of God, and God in them doth speak to Men on Earth. They have a voice, & we should have an hearing ear; let's not be deaf to the Instructions that God is giving of us; nor dull to take out the Lessons he is teaching us. Particularly some more observable upon more rem•rkable occasions, such as these.
1. The Earthquake there was at the Death of Christ. The Jews hearts were stony and hard, and did not fear nor tremble to shed the innocent and most precious Blood of the Son of God, but when it fell upon the ground, the Earth did shake and tremble to receive it. Abel's Blood did cry to Heaven from the ground, and Cain was cursed and the Earth was cursed to him for that bloody fact. Gen. 4.10. And he said what hast thou done? the voice of thy brothers blood crieth unto me from the ground. Verse 11. And now art thou cursed from the Earth which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brothers blood at thine hand. Verse 12. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her ⟨p. 50⟩A Fugitive and a Vagabond shalt thou be in the Earth. Was not the Blood of Christ of greater worth and value than Abel's, or of all Men, being the Blood of him that was God as well as Man, pure and spotless; was not therefore the shedding of it by Men, a more heinous sin and barbarous fact; and yet the shedders of it stupid, and not afraid to take away his lie? what doth the Earth under their feet, but shake and tremble at what they did not? and what improvement did some then present make thereof? and what conclusions did they draw from it?