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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.
7. If men could shake the Earth and your Houses as God did, could they so securely have preserved them from falling, and you from hurt, as God did? Was the shaking of your Houses, so much, and the preserving of them so shaken, so great a mercy, in it self, and yet so little in your eyes? and last no longer with a due impression in your memories?
8. While you look upon this Earthquake to be so small a thing, can you look upon your preservation to be so great a mercy as indeed it is? whilst you lessen the work of God, the more you lessen the mercy of God? did God shake you and your Houses, and not overturn you and them, and was not this great mercy? Oh! take heed you do not diminish this work of God's power in your own apprehensions, and consequently your danger then, and God's mercy now in your safety. Lord! Let London so tremble at thy Judgment with which thou hast so lately visited it, and account it great, that their Repentance, Reformation may be great. And tho' it suddenly came, and quickly ceased, and did no hurt, let not London account that work a small work, but thy mercy great mercy, vouchsafed in so great a Judgment, ⟨p. 15⟩least in thy wrath yet greater, thou cause the foundations of it to shake and tremble more, and do that execution that should make all confess and say (that deny this) that suddenly there was a great Earthquake.
8. While you look upon this Earthquake to be so small a thing, can you look upon your preservation to be so great a mercy as indeed it is? whilst you lessen the work of God, the more you lessen the mercy of God? did God shake you and your Houses, and not overturn you and them, and was not this great mercy? Oh! take heed you do not diminish this work of God's power in your own apprehensions, and consequently your danger then, and God's mercy now in your safety. Lord! Let London so tr•mble at thy Judgment with which thou hast so lately visited it, and account it great, that their Repentance, Reformation may be great. And tho' it suddenly came, and quickly ceased, and did no hurt, let not London account that work a small work, but thy mercy great mercy, vouchsafed in so great a Judgment,