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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
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By the way, let this be observed by many, that in our days, without the way appointed by God in his Word, in the pride of their hearts and self-[…], thrust themselves into Sacred Functions, which is not lawful but for those that are competently qualified and duly called thereunto, lest for such doings ⟨p. 26⟩by so many, God make the Earth to quake under us, as he did for one Uzziah's intrusion in former time.
By the way, let this be observed by many, that in our days, without the way appointed by God in his Word, in the pride of their hearts and self-〈…〉, thrust themselves into Sacred Functions, which is not lawful but for those that are competently qualified and duly called thereunto, lest for such doings ⟨p. 26⟩by so many, God make the Earth to quake under us, as he did for one Vzziah's intrusion in former time.
6 Amongst the many Miracles at the Death of Christ, an Earthquake must be acknowledged to be one: all of which were Testimonies, not only of his Innocency, but also Demonstrations of his Deity. The whole Creation groaned and travailed in pain, when the God of Nature, (he that was God as well as Man) tho' not as God, died a shameful, cursed & painful Death; Mir••••s wrought in Heaven above, in Earth beneath; all Creatures sympathizing with a suffering Christ, except M•n, for whom alone he suffered The Sun was darkened, the Veil of the Temple was rent in twain, from the top to the bottom, and the Earth did quake, and the Rocks rent, and the Graves were opened, and many Bodies of the Saints which slept, arose, and appeared to many, Matth. 27.45, 51, 52, 53. Writers do affirm, that by this Earthquake not only Golgotha, but the whole City, and the Regions near were terribly shaken; and some, that in Bithynia, and in Thracia certain Towns were overthrown; but how far this Earthquake was extended is uncertain.