N00508:39
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.
Doct. I.
God many times works wonders for the deliverance of his suffering Saints in order to the propagating of the Gospel. Paul and Silas wer• imprisoned because they did preach, God by an Earthquake sets open the Prison doors that they may go forth and preach. They by preaching did make the Devil's Kingdom shake; they for preaching were fast bound in Prison; the Earth where they did lie so bound, falls a quaking under them, as being weary of the burden of imprisoned Preachers, and doth not rest, and could not stand still under them, till they were enlarged and set at liberty.
God many times works wonders for the deliverance of his suffering Saints in order to the propogating of the Gospel. Paul and Silas wer• imprisoned because they did preach, God by an Earthquake sets open the Prison doors that they may go forth and preach. They by preaching did make the Devil's Kingdom shake; they for preaching were fast bound in Prison; the Earth where they did lie so bound, falls a quaking under them, as being weary of the burden of imprisoned Preachers, and doth not rest, and could not stand still under them, till they were enlarged and set at liberty.
God can do wonders for the deliverance of his suffering Servants, of this his Almighty Power is a proof. God can deliver his Sufferers after such a manner, as none other can, their Enemies being Eye-witnesses and Confessors of it. Dan. 3.28. Then Nebuchadnezzar spake and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who hath sent his Angel and delivered his Servants that trusted in him, and changed the King's word, and yielded th••