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

2. Sin is injurious to the Blessed God, in that it has defaced and spoiled His Works. They were all Good and Beautiful as they came out of his Hands, but sin has brought a Curse and a Blast upon many of them. Yea, such a Curse as the whole Creation groans to be delivered from it. Sin has put all out of Order, and has brought Confusion and Desolation on the works of God. If a man shall show his Art in framing an excll•nt piece of Workmanship, and another shall come and break it and trample it under foot, the skilful ⟨p. 44⟩Artificer looks on himself as abused: so it is here. God has showed His infinite Wisdom in framing the world, but Sin has undone the world, so that there needs a Restitution of all things.

2. Sin is injurious to the Blessed God, in that it has defaced and spoiled His Works. They were all Good and Beautiful as they came out of his Hands, but sin has brought a Curse and a Blast upon many of them. Yea, such a Curse as the whole Creation groans to be delivered from it. Sin has put all out of Order, and has brought Confusion and Desolation on the works of God. If a man shall shew his Art in framing an excll•nt piece of Workman•hip, and another shall come and break it and trample it under foot, the skil•ull ⟨p. 44⟩Artificer looks on himself as abused: so it is here. God has shewed His infinite Wisdom in framing the world, but Sin has undone the world, so that there needs a Restitution of all things.

3. Sin strikes at the very Being of God. Men by sin deny the God that is above. They say that there is no such God in Heaven, as his Word and Works declare that there is;