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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.
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 s•cure? 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.
Quest. III. What are the several sorts, or kinds of Earthquakes?
There is difference amongst Philosophers in this point, some making 2 sorts or kinds of Earthquakes, as Possidonius, ⟨p. 30⟩and Aristotle; some 3 as Seneca and Zan•hy. Some 7 which last they thus distinguish and nominate.
There is difference amongst Philosophers in this point, some making 2 sorts or kinds of Earthquakes, as Possidonius, ⟨p. 30⟩