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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now, if the Eighteen on whom the Tower of Si•loam fell, were to be construed as a Figure and Foretaste, of what was to befall incredible Multitude• by the Fall of Towers upon them, in the approaching Destruction of Jerusalem; Why may not th• Hundred and Eighteen that perished the other Nigh• […] the Barn at Barwel, be shown unto the World, […] Type, of what shall be done to many Millions, •he CONFLAGRATION, which is to come ••snare upon all them who dwell on the Face of the ••ole Earth? If one would see a Tragical T••• •aiture, of the Business which the World is very much taken up withal; Yea, and very much of the Religion which is in the World pretended to; […] of the sudden Destruction by Fire, which the miserable People of the Earth will find themselves, beyond all possibility of escaping, reserved for; Let them look into the Barn at Barwel 'Tis a dismal and a shocking Story; The Relation is thus conveyed unto us,
Now, if the Eighteen on whom the Towre of Si•loam fell, were to be construed as a Figure and Foretaste, of what was to befal incredible Multitude• by the Fall of Towre• upon them, in the approaching Destruction of Jerusalem; Why may not th• Hundred and Eighteen that perished the other Nigh• 〈…〉 the Barn at Barwel, be shown unto the World, 〈…〉 Type, of what shall be done to many Millions, •he CON•LAGRATION, which is to come ••snare upon all them who dwell on the Face of the ••ole Earth? If one would see a Tragical T aiture, of the Business which the World is very much taken up withal; Yea, and very much of the Religion which is in the World pretended to; of the sudders Destruction by Fire, which the miserable People of the Earth will find themselves, beyond all possibility of escaping, reserved for; Let them look into the Barn at Barwel 'Tis a disinal and a shocking Story; The Relation is thus convey'd unto us,