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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. Yet more, was it not a great Earthquake when it did enlarge it self, and reached at the same time to so many Cities and Towns beyond the Sea? Did God stretch out his Arm so far, and do you look upon i• as a little thing, not worthy your observation, remembering, or spiritual improvement of it.
3. Yet more, was it not a great Earthquake when it did enlarge it self, and reached at the same time to so many Cities and Towns beyond the Sea? Did God stretch out his Arm so far, and do you look upon i• as a little thing, not worthy your observation, remembring, or spiritual improvement of it.
4. If it were so small in your Eyes, what made so many to be in so great a consternation? why did so many run out of their Houses, and such as were sitting at their Tables hasten from their Dinners with their Napkins in their hands, to get into the Streets? why did so many run from their Shops? what was the reason, of the sudden, common cry, by so many, one by one, My House is falling, and my House is falling, and my Children above will he destroyed and yet I dare not go up to fetch them down.
5. How little do you know, if this late Earthquake had been a little more, and had lasted a little longer, a few minutes more, how near you & your Houses would have been to a subversion and total overthrow? or how near the trembling Earth might have been to opening, and swallowed up both you and your Habitations? For all that you know by this Earthquake you were upon the brink of ruin, a little more might have brought you down; and yet will you slight this work of God, as if it were a small, a very little thing?