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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. Uzziah's wrath against the Priests was greatly incensed
3. Vzziah's wrath against the Priests was greatly incensed
4. While he showed his anger against the Priests, the Lord by his own immediate Ha•d smote him with a Leprosy, which appeared in his Forehead.
4. While he shewed his anger against the Priests, the Lord by his own immediate Ha•d smote him with a Leprosie, which appeared in his Forehead.
5. Upon this, all the Priests thrust him out from thence, yea he himself hasted also to go out, because the Lord had smitten him, 2 Chron: 26.16. to 22.
6. At the same time, and for the same sin was this Earthquake in the days of Uzziah. And why may not the Earthquake be attributed to the immediate hand of God, as well as his being smitten with Leprosy. That this was at the same time, and for the same sin, and so from the same hand of God, Josephus in his History doth make plain: who writeth thus; Uzziah upon a certain solemn Fst-day, wherein all the People were assembled together, he attired himself in the High Priests Vestments, and entered into th Temple to offer Sacrifice unto God upon the Golden Altar, which notwithstanding the Hgh Priest Azariah (accompanied with fourscore Priests) […] him the same, telling him that it was not lawful for him to sacrifice, in that it was only allowed in those that were of the Posterity of the High Priest Aaron. Whilst after this manner Azariah expostulated with him, commanding