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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. › Application 2: USE II.
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USE II.
If Great Earthquakes in diverse Places are fore-runners of the Lords Coming, we the• have at this Day, reason to expect that […] Notable Coming of the Lord is near at hand• ▪ We may say, as in Zeph. 1. 14. The Great Day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly. For the Signs of it are appearing more and more. And in special that Sign of Earthquakes in divers Places. In our Days there have been astonishing Earthquakes: Yea, God has been shaking the Earth in all Quarters of it. In Asi• there have been terrible Earthquakes, as at Smyrna, and the places adjacent. And in the East-Indies, Five years ago. One writes from thence that which is Remarkable. He says that there was a noise like Thunder heard in the Mountains about Tangarouse, and that Seven Hills were sunk by an Earthquake in one place, and ⟨p. 25⟩Nine in another: That several Rivers were stopped, and their course altered; That the high Land between the Batavian and Tangaren Rivers, which were before that a Wood, are by the Earthquake changed into an open Field, wholly de•ti•••e of Trees, the surface of the Ground being covered with Red Clay. This Earthquake was in January 1699. In the Year 1695, there were direful Earthquakes in the Motucco Islands. One writes from thence to his Correspondent in Am•erdam, that a Noise like the hardest Thunder was heard, and at the same time an Earthquake which blew up a Mountain and that it seems evident, that in those Parts and Seas there are ubterraous Fires, which have a mutual communication one with another, which he says may probably cause a sudden subversion of them, and consequently a notable alteration of the worlds Globe.