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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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Behold, first, a poor People under Good Impressions in a time of Danger; and from an Apprehension of the Glorious GOD coming to slay them. He slew some of them; Yea, an Horrendous EARTHQUAKE, was the way wherein He slew a Number of them. The Survivors were a while under Good Impressions from such occurrences. When they were afraid, that GOD was going to slay them, yea, to Damn them, for their Sins, Then they Bethought themselves; Then they thought they would become the Diligent Seekers of GOD; Then they thought they would no more Despise their SAVIOUR. But then,
Behold, first, a poor People under Good Impressions in a time of Danger; and from an Apprehension of the Glorious GOD coming to slay them. He slew some of them; Yea, an Horrendous EARTHQUAKE, was the way wherein He slew a Number of them. The Survivers were a while under Good Impressions from such occurrences. When they were afraid, that GOD was going to slay them, yea, to Damn them, for their Sins, Then they Bethought themselves; Then they thought they would become the Diligent Seekers of GOD; Then they thought they would no more Despise their SAVIOUR. But then,
Behold, next, what becomes of all these Good Impressions, when the Danger seems to be a little over with them. They are not Effectual ones; They are not Abiding ones; They all go off, with miserable Demonstrations, that their Hearts were the same they were before. They are not Sincere, and so they are not steadfast in the Declarations they made, when the Good Impressions were upon them. It becomes apparent, that all their short lived Piety was but Flattery. The Good Impression what are they but a Vapour, which appeareth for a little while, and soon vanishes away? They soon Evaporate. ⟨p. 5⟩The Sinners in a very little while are just such Murmurers and Infidels, as they were before.
Behold, next, what becomes of all these Good Impressions, when the Danger seems to be a little over with them. They are not Effectual ones; They are not Abiding ones; They all go off, with miserable Demonstrations, that their Hearts were the same they were before. They are not Sincere, and so they are not stedfast in the Declarations they made, when the Good Impressions were upon them. It becomes apparent, that all their short lived Piety was but Flattery. The Good Impression what are they but a Vapour, which appeareth for a little while, and soon vanishes away? They soon Evporate.