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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
There shall be Great Earthquakes before the Lords Coming. › Proposition 2: PROPOSITION II.
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.
Earthquakes are Signal. They are Providences which deserve to have a Remark ⟨p. 9⟩set upon them. Wherefore the Prophet Amos Expressing the date of his Prophecy, which was in the Reign of Uzziah, he says, It was two Years before the Earthquake, Amos 1. 1. Implying that that was a Remarkable Providence, and which ought not to be forgotten. Especially when there are Great Earthquakes or […] in diverse Places, the Providence of God therein is Signal. Indeed all Eminent Providences are so. They do Signare, they declare and signify something that is notable, either as present or as to come Eminent Judgments are Signal. The Ten Plagues which came upon Egypt were so. They are called Tokens, Psal. 135. 8. Who sent Tokens in the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his Servants. And Eminent Deliverances are Signal. When the Jews demanded that Christ should give them a Sign of His being the Promised Messiah, He answered them, That no Sign should be given to them, but the Sign of the Prophet Jonah, Mat. 10. 39. Since Jonah was kept alive in the Whales belly three Days, and then cast alive on the shore to Preach to the Ninevites, that was a Sign that God sent him; so since our Saviour after He had been three ⟨p. 10⟩Days in the Grave, was raised from thence, that was a sure Sign of His being the Messiah whom God had promised […] send into the world. Remarkable Pro•vidences are Signal. So are Earthquakes.
Earthquakes are Signal. They are Providences which deserve to have a Remark ⟨p. 9⟩set upon them. Wherefore the Prophet Amos Expressing the date of his Prophecy, which was in the Reign of Vzziah, he sayes, It was two Years before the Earthquake, Amos 1. 1. Implying that that was a Remarkable Providence, and which ought not to be forgotten. Especially when there are Great Earthquakes or in diverse Places, the Providence of God therein is Signal. Indeed all Eminent Providences are so. They do Signare, they declare and signify something that is notable, either as present or as to come Eminent Judgments are Signal. The Ten Plagues which came upon Egypt were so. They are called Tokens,