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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.
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?
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 ruine, 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?
6. As small a thing as you look upon it to be, ⟨p. 14⟩could any man, or men, could all the mighty men upon the Earth have caused such a shaking and trembling of the Earth, and all upon it. Could all the mighty Captains, Lord Generals, Kings and Emperors, with all their Armies, have had such an Influence upon the Earth? if they can batter down strong Walls, and Cities, and Castles with their Instruments of War, yet can any of them, or all of them, cause such a shaking of the Earth as that so lately was? do you ascribe great things to Men, and call them so, that are far inferior to this, and yet let this pass by with so little observation, as if it were a work so small?