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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.
Secondly; There is the amazing, mighty work of God on and within the Earth, which in the Text that suits the occasion, is God's shaking of, and making ⟨p. 5⟩it to tremble before him, and under men that dwell upon it
This moving of the Earth is far different from that constant motion that some Philosophers ascribe unto it, for amongst the several Systems of the World which Astronomers have invented, three are more famous, the one by Ptolemy, the other by Copernicus, and the third by Tycho Beach. Copernicus following the Pythagoreans, assert the motion of the Earth, and the Sun to be in the Centre of the World, without motion, that the Earth hath two motions, one Diurna, which is performed about its own Axis, in the space of 24 hours, and from this motion do arise our days and nights: the other Annua, whereby it is carried about the Sun, from the West towards the East, according to the Succession & Signs of the Zodiac. Where then is the Miracle of the Suns standing still in Joshua's days, if it stand still in all Ages▪ Where is the Wonder of the Earths moving, if it whirl about every 24 hours with so swift a motion? Why cannot all people discern this constant motion of the Earth, that do perceive its shaking for a few minutes, and are so much affrighted at it? Are the Pillars of the Earth turned into Wheels? Some have denied all motion, some affirm too much▪ […] as when all motion was denied, a Philosopher to prove it, rose up and walked; so when the constant daily, and yearly motion of the earth is asserted, we may know by our Senses that it stands still, but these great men of Reason (so they are) will give you this presently for an Axiome, Sensibus non est Fidendum, you must not believe, nor trust your Senses which yet for the sake of the Doctrine of Transubstantiation, I should not readily receive; but knowing ⟨p. 6⟩that my Senses cannot err about their proper object, when it is presented at a due distance, through a right medium, and the Organ of Sense rightly disposed, a Papist shall not persuade me that the Bread after Consecration is not Bread, and that the Wine is not Wine, nor a Copernican that the Earth doth naturally move, when in the one by my Seses I discern it to be Bread and Wine, and not real Flesh and Blood carnally and corporally taken, and in the other that the Earth stands fast and still, so much confidence I will put in my Senses: