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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.
2. May we not learn that this God never wants means to effect whatsoever he pleaseth? What he doth ⟨p. 28⟩not do by second Causes he can do without them. Jonathan (when one of these Earthquakes happened) said, It is all one with G•d to save by few or by many, 1 Sam. 14 6 So it is all one with God to save by few or none; and to do what he will with means, or without them When he doth not shake the Earth by Causes got into its Bowels, he can and hath shaken it without. And indeed, if he brought it out of nothing without any instrumental Cause (for in Creation there can be none) why may he not, when it is created, shake it till it tremble without any instrumental Cause? cannot he that doth the greater, do the less?
2. May we not learn that this God never wants means to effect whatsoever he pleaseth? What he doth ⟨p. 28⟩not do by second Causes he can do without them. Jonathan (when one of these Earthquak•s happened) said, It is all one with G•d to save by few or by many, 1 Sam. 14 6 So it is all one with God to save by few or none; and to do what he will with means, or without them When he doth not shake the Earth by Causes got into its Bowels, he can and hath shaken it without. And indeed, if he brought it out of nothing without any instrumental Cause (for in Creation there can be none) why may he not, when it is created, shake it till it tremble without any instrumental Cause? cannot he that doth the greater, do the less?
3 Hath God made the Earth to tremble without any Natural Causes, Have not ungodly Men cause to tremble even then, when there is no visible sign, to reason from any Natural Causes to fear Punishment and Ruin? Is not their own sin as Meritorious of God's Wrath and Sore Displeasure, with the thoughts of God's infinite Hatred of it, and His Almighty Power to Punish it, a Sufficient Reason Why they should Fear, and Quake, and Tremble? What tho' they live in such places and parts of the World that are not so subject to Earthquakes as some other places are? Will they say.