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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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3. The Earthquake at the Prayers of the Apostles (when the Gospel was opposed, and the Preachers of it Persecuted) that God would grant unto his Servants that with all boldness they may speak his Word, and for confirmation of their Faith, and satisfaction that their Prayers were heard, his Church & Kingdom should be propagated and preserved, the place was shaken where they were, Act. 4.24.31. He that can shake the Earth, can establish his Church; he that can make Mountains quake, can and hath built his Church upon such a Rock, that no Power shall prevail against it.
3. The Earthquake at the Prayers of the Apostles (when the Gospel was opposed, and the Preachers of it Persecuted) that God would grant unto his Servants that with all boldness they may speak his Word, and for confirmation of their Faith, and satisfaction that their Prayers were heard, his Church & Kingdom should be propogated and preserved, the place was shaken where they were, Act. 4.24.31. He that can shake the Earth, can establish his Church; he that can make Mountains quake, can and hath built his Church upon such a Rock, that no Power shall prevail against it.
Use IV. Improve this mighty terrible Work of God in causing this late Earthquake by making more hast to turn from sin to God by a speedy and sincere Conversion. Were you not afraid of Death, when your Houses did shake, and you feared, would fall upon you? Were you prepared to die? Were you fitted for Judgment and Eternity? What if you had been destroyed then, where had your Souls been now? Have any of you been more serious and earnest in enquiring after th• way of Salvation? Have you so much as with a concerned mind asked any Minister, what you must do that you may be saved? How! have you not? What, will you be more stupid than the Earth under your feet? Did it tremble, and not you? Or did you then, and are become secure again? Will you be more careless and hardened than the Jailer? He! did not he, being moved by the motion of the quaking ground, make hast, and run to the Apostles, and […] his knees begged, Sirs, what must I do to be Saved? If you know, tell me, I see