A discourse concerning earthquakes. Occasioned by the earthquakes which were in New-England, in the…

1. There is His Providential Coming. When He Executes Judgments upon men then He comes to them in the way of His Providence. And this coming is firstly (tho' not ultimately) intended in the words before us. Our Saviour having ⟨p. 18⟩intimated to the Disciples that He would come to Execute Vengeance on the Jewish Nation, and to put an end both to their Civil and Ecclesiastical State, they prayed Him to tell them what would be the Signs of His coming to do it; He answers, Great Earthquakes in diverse places, will be one sign of it. Accordingly we find in Histories, that it was thus. In Nero's Reign (which was not long before the Destruction of Jerusalem,) Twelve Cities were Destroyed by Earthquakes at one time, and Thirteen Cities at another time, in which Cities many Jews perished, and on that account the warning was the more solemn to those that dwelt in the Land of Judea. And but Six years before the Destruction of Jerusalem, Three of the most Famous Cities in Asia, were overthrown by Earthquakes. Thus were the words of Christ dreadfully Verified. The Lord seldom visits any Town or Country with Desolating Judgments, put He first giveth them warnings of it by one means or other, and many times by Earthquakes. A Roman Historian observes, that the City of Rome never felt an Earthquake, but some terrible Judgment soon followed. In the Scripture