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Shaking dispensations. An essay upon the mighty shakes, which the hand of heaven, hath…
Shaking dispensations. An essay upon the mighty shakes, which the hand of heaven, hath given, and is giving, to the world. : With some useful remarks on the death of the French king, who left off to make the world a wilderness, and to destroy the cities thereof; on the twenty-first of August. 1715. In a sermon on that great occasion, at Boston, New-England. 13 d. VIII m. 1715. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. & F.R.S.
Boston: printed by B. Green. Sold by S. Gerrish, 1715
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APPLICATION.
And now, O Christians, what should be our Behaviour at the Times, wherein we see our Glorious LORD so Shaking of the Nations?
I need not call upon you to look for Shaking ⟨p. 29⟩Times: We see them, we feel them, we are in the midst of them; we shall shortly be more than ever so. The Things that cannot be shaken, but must be introduced, cannot be otherwise introduced.
Earthquakes without a Metaphor will be Multiplied; More horrid than any of the past Sicilian or Italian ones. Even Geneva too has been very lately approached with them, and a whole Village newly Swallowed up. Ominous Things they'll be! State-quakes will become yet more Universal.
Earthquakes without a Metaphor will be Multiplied; More horrid than any of the past Sicilian or Italian ones. Even Geneva too has been very lately approached with them, and a whole Village newly Swallowed up. Ominous Things they'l be! Statequakes will become yet more Universal.