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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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First, We see, Dangers make People Devout and Serious. People use to be devoutly disposed, when deadly Dangers are impending over them. Affliction ⟨p. 8⟩and Affrightment is how often, the Mother of Devotion! I wish, it may not be said, a Spurious Devotion. Imminent and sensible Dangers of Death, make Men grow Thoughtful; and it will be strange, if the Advance of the Leviathan do not cause them to purify themselves. They whom a sense of Death approaching does not compel to some Sober Thoughts, what are they? Hardened and Frantic — one can't say, What! — Not Rational Men. They do not act as Creatures exercising Reason, who cast off all Thoughts of Religion, when they have Death staring on them, scaring of them. It was once expostulated with a Malefactor in the Jaws of Death: Luk. XXIII. 40. Dost not thou Fear GOD, seeing thou art under Condemnation? But that was a Monster of a Man. Shall it be said of a Man, He does not Fear GOD, when he is in a Danger that looks like a sentence of Death upon him? Verily, 'Twill be a very monstrous Character.
First, We see, Dangers make People Devout and Serious. People use to be devoutly disposed, when deadly Dangers are impending over them. Affliction ⟨p. 8⟩and Affrightment is how often, the Mother of Devotion! I wish, it may not be said, a Spurious Devotion. Imminent and sensible Dangers of Death, make Men grow Thoughtful; and it will be strange, if the Advance of the Leviathan do not cause them to purify themselves. They whom a sense of Death approaching does not compel to some Sober Thoughts, what are they? Harden'd and Frantic — one can't say, What! — Not Rational Men. They do not act as Creatures exercising Reason, who cast off all Thoughts of Religion, when they have Death staring on them, scaring of them. It was once expostulated with a Malefactor in the Jaws of Death: Luk. XXIII. 40. Dost not thou Fear GOD, seeing thou art under Condemnation? But that was a Monster of a Man. Shall it be said of a Man, He does not Fear GOD, when he is in a Danger that looks like a sentence of Death upon him? Verily, 'Twill be a very monstrous Character.