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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.
was the shaking of the Earth, and the rending of the Rocks, a testimony against the Impenitent, Unbelieving, and Rocky-hearted Jews, that neither before, for all the Miracles done by him in his Life, nor after they saw what was done at his Death, did own him for the Son of God, nor receive him for their Saviour and Lord, but did still reject him, and do you hear of the ⟨p. 51⟩same things that they saw, and yet be guilty of the same Unbelief, Impenitency, and Rejecting of Christ as they were? shall it not have the same effect upon you, as it had upon the Centurion, and those that were with him? The Earth at h•s Death did quake; do you fear and tremble, lest you be found a Rejecter of him.
2. The Earthquake at the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, ought to be improved by us to establish us in the Articles of our Faith of Christ's Resurrection, and our own, and to rejoice at the thoughts of both. And the more the Earth did tremble, the more steadfast let our Faith be. Mat. 28.2. And behold there was a great Earthquake. Verse 5. Ye seek Jesus. Ver. 6. He is not here, for he is risen. Verse 8. They departed quickly, with fear and great joy, and did run to bring his Disciples word. The Earth did quake, and they did believe; the Earth did quake, and they did joy that Christ was risen. As the Earth did quake to drink up his Blood, so it did quake to detain his Body beyond the appointed time, and by its motion did congratulate the Victory Christ had obtained over Death in its own Dominions. Improve this also to believe the power of Christ to raise our Bodies also, for if he give the word, if he utter his voice, Come forth ye dead, Awake, Arise, he will make the Earth to quake and tremble, to deliver up its dead. Rev. 20.11. And I saw a great white Throne, and him that sate upon it, from whose Presence the Earth and Heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. Verse 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the Books were opened, and another Book was opened, which is the Book of Life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the Books, according to their Works. The Earth did quake when