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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
Introduction: An Humble WARNING From the Presaging EARTHQUAKE Sept. 8. 1692.
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.
And if it were from the immediate hand of God was it not for some great end that God should do so great a work, which he doth more rarely do? Is not the meaning of it, a warning to all that have been shaken by it, to forsake sin, and turn to God by repentance and reformation, or else look ⟨image ?⟩for some other stroke? while we go on in a course of great provoking sins, when God hath shaken his Rod over us, might we not fear it will some time fall upon us? But whether it were natural or Supernatural, should not all places that trembled by it, without Reformation, fear and tremble at the Judgments that may follow it? when God begins to punish, and Men not so much as begin to repent and turn, doth not he threaten he will go on to punish seven times more, and seven to that? and many times seven more to that? when a People still walk contrary to him? Lev. 26.15. to 40.
Some would fain deny the matter of Fact, but that there are so many Witnesses to testify against them. Some that own it, make light of it, and do not at all think it portends any more Calamity to […], even as the blinded Jews slighted all the Indications of more approaching Miseries, as Josephus writes concerning them; saying, These miserable people were easily persuaded to believe Impostors who did belly God, yet would they not believe, nor give any ear or regard unto certain Tokens and Signs (of which an Earthquake was one) of the ruin of their City: but as it were blinded, neither having Eyes nor Souls, they counterfeited themselves, not to see what God foreshowed them.
Some would fain deny the matter of Fact, but that there are so many Witnesses to testifie against them. Some that own it, make light of it, and do not at all think it portends any more Calamity to 〈…〉, even as the blinded Jews slighted all the Indications of more approaching Miseries, as Josephus writes concerning them; saying, These miserable people were easily perswaded to believe Impostors who did bely God, yet would they not believe, nor give any ear or regard unto certain Tokens and Signs (of which an Earthquake was one) of the ruin of their City: but as it were blinded, neither having Eyes nor Souls, they counterfeited themselves, not to see what God foreshewed them.