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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.
3. That at and from high noon-day till three in the afternoon, the Sun shou•d give no light, but darkness should be at the usual time of its enlightening the ⟨p. 4⟩Earth, was the hand and power of God. Ordinary Eclipses are not miraculous, yet there was […] that was not according to the course of Nature. When the Lord of G•ory, the Sun of Rig•t••usness was crucified, the Sun hid i•s face, & […] Heavens put themselves into mourning at his […] Matth. 27 45. Now from the sixth hour there was da•kn•ss •ver all the Land until the ninth hour. This was •n extraordinary and miraculous work of God, upon the Reasons usually alleged (1) Because it was the full of the Moon, which caused a gr••• Philosopher to cry out, Either the God of Nature suffers, or the Frame of Nature dissolves. (2.) Because (•s some affirm) it was universa, over all the […]. Or (3.) according to others, because it was only over the Land of Judea, all other parts of the World having the benefit, and enjoying the light of the Sun at that time, which some judge to be the more strange: that as when Israel had light in G• sh•n, the Egyptians were under the Plague of Darkne•• so at the crucifying of Christ, Israel which dwelt in Judea should be under darkness, when the World besides enjoyed light. Thus it is manifest that God doth great things in Heaven above; the Sun moves or standeth still, goes backwards or forwards, shines not, to give light at noon day, & for some hours together unto the Earth at all, or else makes light in one part, when it doth not in another; and all this at the pleasure of the great God. But our present Task is to observe one extraordinary work of God, on and in the Earth.