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Boanerges. A short essay to preserve and strengthen the good impressions produced by earthquakes…
Boanerges. A short essay to preserve and strengthen the good impressions produced by earthquakes on the minds of people that have been awakened with them. : With some views of what is to be further and quickly looked for. : Addressed unto the whole people of New-England, who have been terrified with the late earthquakes; and more especially the towns that have had a more singular share in the terrors of them. : [Three lines from I Chronicles]Boanerges. A short essay to preserve and strengthen the good impressions produced by earthquakes on the minds of people that have been awakened with them. : With some views of what is to be further and quickly look'd for. : Address'd unto the whole people of New-England, who have been terrified with the late earthquakes; and more especially the towns that have had a more singular share in the terrors of them. : [Three lines from I Chronicles]
Boston: printed for S. Kneeland, 1727
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The Fourth OBSERVABLE.
Our EARTHQUAKES unavoidably lead us to the Consideration, of what is to be expected from the Subterraneous Fires, in the Day of the Lord that shall burn like an Oven; when they shall conspire with the Fires, which at the Glorious Appearing of our great GOD and SAVIOUR, shall fill and cleanse the Heavens, and those High places which •re now occupied by Wicked Spirits. When the Lord our GOD shall come, and a Fire shall devour be•ore Him, and it shall be very Tempestuous round about Him, Then the Fire and Brimstone which will in an Horrible Tempest be Rained like Snares, upon the wicked, even upon all but those Holy and Humble Walkers with GOD, that shall have His Mark upon ⟨image ?⟩them, and with a surprising Change upon •••n Shall be caught up to meet the Lord: This Fire will meet with, and give an Attractive and Amazing Energy to, the Subterraneous Fires, in which t•• Trembling Earth is to fall a Sacrifice.
Our EARTHQUAKES unavoidably lead us to the Consideration, of what is to be expected from the Subterraneous Fires, in the Day of the Lord that shall burn like an Oven; when they shall conspire with the Fires, which at the Glorious Appearing of our great GOD and SAVIOUR, shall fill and cleanse the Heavens, and those High places which •re now occupied by Wicked Spirits. When the Lord our GOD shall come, and a Fire shall devour be•ore Him, and it shall be very Tempestuous round about Him, Then the Fire and Brimstone which will in an Horrible Tempest be Rained like Snares, upon the wicked, even upon all but those Holy and Humble Walkers with GOD, that shall have His Mark upon