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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.
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.
Se•o•dly, 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.
Thirdly, Will they say we live in Inland Towns, and not near the Sea, which are most Obnoxious to such Earthquakes, because such places are more easily filled with Vapours, therefore we need not fear?
Fourthly will they say let them live in fear of Earthquakes where the Earth they live upon is both Soft & full of Caverns, and near the Sea, as most liable thereunto Let them quake when the earth doth not, because it is so subject in such places to such trembling fits; but our Habitation is on Hard and Rocky Solid places, without such Concavities, and in the midst of the Land remote from Sea, and therefore secure enough. Did you speak true before you were aware, when you said, you were scure? Yes; and let me add, your Heart seems to be more Stony, & Rocky and Hard than the place you boast you live upon as if Gods Arm were so short, he could not reach you, as if your Mountain stood so strong it could not be moved nor shaken. Do not you know, have you not heard, that God hath shaken the Earth by his own immediate hand, without those Natural Causes, and Rocks, and Mountains too. Fear to sin, cease to provoke the Eyes of his Glory, for he can reach you with his own hand, and shake your strongest Tower by his own might, without other Causes.