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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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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;
The sentiments of PIETY, and the GOOD IMPRESSIONS, which People have in the Time of DANGER, [Say, The Time of EARTHQUAKE] are too easily, too usually Forgotten, when they think the DANGER is over with them.
There was a Notorious Example of this DOCTRINE, in the Infamous Pharaoh, whom a Sovereign GOD raised up, that He might show forth His power upon Him. GOD was Revenging on the Egyptians, the Injuries that had been done by them unto His Israelites. No less than Ten Remarkable Plagues did the wrath of the Almighty send upon them: and probably all of them within the space of one Month. A Month devoured them! So memorable were these Plagues, upon the Egyptians, that the Philistines Four Hundred years after spoke of them, with some Consternation; Yea, so memorable, that we find in Pagan Antiquity, the Egyptians did for many Hundreds of years with Mourning, and Howling, and lighted Candles, ••ep up an Anniversary Commemoration of them. They were such terrifying Plagues, that tho' Setho••, the Successor of the King who was now upon ⟨p. 6⟩