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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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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.
First; The Ground of it, is, A Conscience excited by Dangers unto its Operations. In deadly Dangers, the Conscience comes to operate. By Dangers, the Minds of Men are chased from those things which drowned the Murmurs of their Conscience. Yea, in Dangers, People are compelled not only to bear the Murmurs of Conscience, but also the Whispers are turned into Thunders. There is a Preacher in the Bosom of every Man; and upon Dangers, this Preacher becomes a Thunderer.
First; The Ground of it, is, A Conscience excited by Dangers unto its Operations. In deadly Dangers, the Conscience comes to operate. By Dangers, the Minds of Men are chased from those things which drown'd the Murmurs of their Conscience. Yea, in Dangers, People are compelled not only to bear the Murmurs of Conscience, but also the Whispers are turned into Thunders. There is a Preacher in the Bosom of every Man; and upon Dangers, this Preacher becomes a Thunderer.
There are Three Things, which the Thundering Voice of CONSCIENCE will speak to People, when deadly Dangers are upon them.
One Admonition of Conscience, is This; O Man, There is the Providence of GOD in the Dangers that have now overtaken thee. Dangers don't come, nor so much as a little Bird fall into them, without the Providence of GOD. There is the Hand of GOD, in all the Dangers that are brought upon thee. GOD has taken thee into his Hand, when be thus brings Dangers upon thee. Conscience now subscribes to That; Amos III. 6. Shall there be Evil in a City, and the Lord hath not done it! O Thou exposed one, GOD is the Doer, in all the Evil that is hanging over thee.