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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.
Earthquakes and movings of the Earth are often taken metaphorically for great Commotions, alterations made in States, Kingdoms and Church, and for sore and heavy Punishments inflicted by God upon wicked and disobedient People. Isaiah 29.6. Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of Hosts with Thunder and with Earthquake, and with great Noise, with Storm and Tempest, and the Flame of devouring Fire. A figurative description of God's Anger against Jerusalem; as much as to say, Heaven and Earth shall concur to their ruin; yet some Expositors say, this Earthquake may be understood according to the letter. Isa. 24.18. The foundations of the earth do shake. ⟨p. 17⟩earth do shake. Verse 19. The earth •s utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. Verse 20. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it […] •all and not rise again. By the earth here so often mentioned, understand the Inhabitants of the Earth, and properly those Countries wherein the […] and their Confederates lived in those times: by the shaking, moving, removing, breaking down, and ••ssolvi•g the Earth, understand the Punishments that should befall that People from an angry and provoked God. So another expounds it, he doth not mean the natural Earth, on which Men tread, but the People that tread upon the Earth; or that Commonwealth wherein People are united and governed; th•se shall be shaken, broken down, and reel to and […], and be removed like a Cottage; as if he had said, You thought your State and Kingdom was […] like a strong Castle, but I will take it down, as a Man takes down a little Cottage: the strongest Kingdoms and Bulwarks of the Earth are but as […] Cottages, when God takes them in hand Rev. 11.9. And the T•mpl• of God was opened in Heaven, and there was seen in his Temple the Ark of his Testament, and there were Lightnings, and Voices, and Thunderings, and an Earthquake, and great Hail. Some say, by the opening of the Temple in Heaven, is most conveniently understood the glorification of the Church it self in Heaven, and by the Ark of his Covenant, the glorious beholding of Christ our Mediator in it, whereof the Ark was a Type; and by Thunderings, Lightnings and Earthquake, the tokens of his Wrath against Unbelievers.