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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, 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. ⟨p. 5⟩The Sinners in a very little while are just such Murmurers and Infidels, as they were before.
My Friends; There is a melancholy observation that I have made; A grievous Vision is declared unto me! What I have observed, must be the DOCTRINE which I am now to insist upon; But which, Oh! Allow me to say, I beseech you, Brethren, to do all you can for the practical Confutation of. 'Tis This;
My Friends; There is a melancholly observation that I have made; A grievous Vision is declared unto me! What I have observed, must be the DOCTRINE which I am now to insist upon; But which, Oh! Allow me to say, I beseech you, Brethren, to do all you can for the practical Confutation of. 'Tis This;