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A discourse concerning earthquakes. Occasioned by the earthquakes which were in New-England, in the…
A discourse concerning earthquakes. Occasioned by the earthquakes which were in New-England, in the province of Massachusetts-Bay, June 16. and in Connecticut-Colony [sic], June 22. 1705. : Also, two sermons, showing, that sin is the greatest evil; and, that to redeem time is the greatest wisdom. / By Increase Mather.A discourse concerning earthquakes. Occasioned by the earthquakes which were in New-England, in the province of Massachusetts-Bay, June 16. and in Conecticot-Colony [sic], June 22. 1705. : Also, two sermons, shewing, that sin is the greatest evil; and, that to redeem time is the greatest wisdom. / By Increase Mather.
Boston: printed by Timothy Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1706
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There shall be Great Earthquakes before the Lords Coming. › Proposition 1: PROPOSITION I.
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PROPOSITION I.
An Earthquake is the Work of God. There is not the least thing comes to pass without His Providence. Christ said to the Disciples, Not a Sparrow falls to the Ground without your Father, Mat. 10. 29. Then we may be sure so great a thing as an Earthquake is not without His Providence. The Earth cannot shake it self; and it is beyond all the Power of all the men in the world to make an Earthquake. But God who made the Earth, can make it tremble when and where He pleaseth: Job 9. 6. He shakes the Earth out of its place, and the Pillars thereof tremble. There have been Earthquakes which were Supernatural Miraculous Works of God: So was that on Mount Sinai, when the Lord Descended upon it in Fire, and the ⟨p. 6⟩whole Mount Quaked greatly; Exod. 19.18. And that which swallowed up Corah and his Company with all their Houses, Numb. 16. 32. And that which happened in the days of Uzziah, which put the People of Jerusalem into a great Consternation. Of this the Prophet Zechary takes notice, Zec. 14. 5. Ye shall flee like as you fled from before the Earthquake in the days of Uzziah King of Judah. The Jewish Historian reports, that a great Mountain before Jerusalem was removed and broken in pieces by that Earthquake, and that all the High-ways were stopped by the fall of it, and the Kings Gardens of pleasure ruined thereby. Some Interpreters conceive that then Amos his Prophecy was fulfilled; Amos 3. 15. I will smite the Winter house with the Summer house, and the house of Ivory shall perish. And those Earthquakes which were at our Saviours Passion and Resurrection, were Supe natural. So was that which haed when Paul and Silas Prayed and ang Praises unto od, when they were in Prison; Suddenly there was a great Earthquake, so that the Foundations of the Prison were shaken, and all the Doors were opened, and every ones Bands were loosened;