Earthquakes explained and practically improved

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 ⟨p. 53⟩the greatness and the power of your God, if he will have mercy on sinners, tell me and what I must do, that he might have mercy on me, and save me, tell me; if his Wrath be so great, how may I escape it? I do not yet know, fain I would, but I do not; O Sirs, tell me what must I do to be saved? Hath this that you have felt and seen put you on to any greater diligence for your Souls Salvation, than you had before? Careless before, and so still? Impenitent before, and so still? No minding of Conversion before, and none yet? Indeed! shall this amazing Providence of God, whereby you were in so much danger of Death and Hell, pass away, and leave you as carnal, careless, and negligent as you were before? What! after the Earth in its trembling might have opened its mouth and swallowed you up alive into its bowels, and from thence have gone to Eternal Torments? from Pit to Pit? From a deep Pit made by the Earthquake in the lower parts thereof, into a bottomless Pit, prepared by a just God to take Vengeance on Impenitent and Unconverted sinners to all Eternity? Turn sinner turn, or this God, that can and hath by Earthquakes overturned Towns, Cities, Mountains, will turn thee into Hell; and now it thou wilt not fear to continue in a sta•e of sin, there thou shalt feel his Wrath and Vengeance for thy sin.

Vse 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 Eterity? 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 Jaylour? 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