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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 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.
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 Ruine? 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.
First, we live upon that part of the Earth, that is only Stony and Hard, and not Soft and Tender, and therefore no fear the Earth should Quake and Tremble under us?
Secondly, will they say, we dwell upon that part of the E••th that hath not those Caverns, in which those Vapours that cause Earthquakes are generated, therefore we are in no danger? In the Body of Man winds and Vapours are sooner and more stirred in the Bowels and Hollow Parts thereof, than in the Hands, and ⟨p. 29⟩Bones, and more Close, and Solid Members: In Subterraneous Caverns, rather then in Close and Rocky places, is the Matter of an Earthquake; but such is not that part of the World where we Inhabit.