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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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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 ⟨p. 52⟩Christ did die, and when he arose; and so it shall when he shall come to raise the dead, and judge the World.
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 rejoyce at the thoughts of both. And the more the Earth did tremble, the more stedfast 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.