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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.
Use V. Let all and ever• one of us get & evidence our Title to a Kingdom that cannot be shaken. You see there is no place in this World that is so stable, but it may be shaken, even those Houses that you do not call moveable Goods, how moveable God can make them. When you build on Earth, you mind that your Foundation be •ood and firm, and not sandy, or unsound; and if you built your House upon ⟨p. 54⟩an earthly Rock, tho' when the Wind blows, and Rain descends and beat against it, yet it stands; but if an Earthquake come, with a commission from God to overturn, or sink it your best foundation cannot secure it. But there is a City above that hath [unshaken] Foundations, whose Maker and Builder is God. Secure an House there, not made with hands for that will be Eternal. There are Mansions above which are perpetual. There are no ••orms nor tempests; there are no terrible Thunderings and Lightnings, there are no Rendings nor Shakings; all sedate and calm, all at quiet and rest, all secure and safe. No death, or darkness, no fears or tremblings, no threatening or amazing motions tending to interrupt the Joys and Holy Pleasures, the Triumphant Songs of the Citizens of that City, of the Glorious Subjects of that abiding Kingdom. Your House on Earth might be destroyed by War, by Fire, by an Earthquake; but there are Mansions above not subject to be destroyed or spoiled by these or any other way: Set less by these on Earth, that have, and may be shaken, and more by that Kingdom, that never hath, nor shall, nor can be shaken. Heb. 12.27. This word, once more signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken, may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a Kingdom, which cannot be moved, let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and Godly Fear.
Vse V. Let all and ever• one of us get & evidence our Title to a Kingdom that cannot be shaken. You see there is no place in this World that is so stable, but it may be shaken, even those Houses that you do not call moveable Goods, how moveable God can make them. When you build on Earth, you mind that your Foundation be ood and firm, and not sandy, or unsound; and if you built your House upon