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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.
2. The […] motion of the Sun, or its going backward, is no less a wonderful work of God in the Heavens than its standing still. The motion of the Sun is naturally progressive, or going forward, and if it should make more haste by many degrees in its diurnal Motion, it must be by power Divine, and not Humane; yet in the apprehension of men, it is a greater thing, that it should go backward, and would c•use more their observation of its motion, and admiration of God's power, Isai. 38.7. This shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this that he hath spoken. Verse 8. Behold I will bring again the shadow of the degrees which is gone down in the Sun-dial of Ahaz ten degrees backward. So the Sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. Hezekiah prayed, God promised, gives him a sign for his assurance of the performance, and the sign (tho' miraculous) was effected, and the mercy asked, was bestowed: God caused the Sun to go backwards to confirm the faith of his People in his Promise that his work for their deliverance should go forwards.
2. The 〈…〉 motion of the Sun, or its going backward, is no less a wonderful work of God in the Heavens than its standing still. The motion of the Sun is naturally progressive, or going forward, and if it should make more haste by many degrees in its diurnal Motion, it must be by power Divine, and not Humane; yet in the apprehension of men, it is a greater thing, that it should go backward, and would c•use more their observation of its motion, and amiration of God's power, Isai. 38.7. This shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this that he hath spoken. Verse 8. Behold I will bring again the shadow of the degrees which is gone down in the Sun-dial of Ahaz ten degrees backward. So the Sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. Hezekiah prayed, God promised, gives him a sign for his assurance of the performance, and the sign (tho' miraculous) was effected, and the mercy asked, was bestowed: God caused the Sun to go backwards to confirm the faith of his People in his Promise that his work for their deliverance should go forwards.