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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.
A Third Admonition of Conscience, is This: REPENTANCE, REPENTANCE! That is the most likely way to escape thy Dangers. O wicked one, Forsake thy ways; O unjust one, Forsake thy Thoughts; Return to the Lord, and He will have mercy! If thou Repentest not, thou mayst Fear, that the Arrows prepared on the bent Bow of GOD, will be let fly upon thee. The Language of Conscience now is That; Jon. III. 8, 9. Turn every one from his evil way, — who can tell, but GOD ⟨p. 10⟩may turn away from His fierce Anger, that we perish not.
A Third Admonition of Conscience, is This: REPENTANCE, REPENTANCE! That is the most likely way to escape thy Dangers. O wicked one, Forsake thy ways; O unjust one, Forsake thy Thoughts; Return to the Lord, and He will have mercy! If thou Repentest not, thou mayst Fear, that the Arrows prepared on the bent Bowe of GOD, will be let fly upon thee. The Language of Conscience now is That; Jon. III. 8, 9. Turn every one from his evil way, — who can tell, but GOD ⟨p. 10⟩may turn away from His fierce Anger, that we perish not.
When the Conscience begins to Thunder at this rate, and make a Noise like the hideous Rumblings of an Earthquake, it must needs throw the Threatened People into some Religious Dispositions.
As a Supplement unto this Meditation, let this be added. The Glorious GOD throws Men into Dangers on this very Design; To make them hearken unto what He speaks by the Mouth of His Deputy, their Conscience, to them. Truly, Sirs, this is the very Errand that your Dangers are sent upon. The Conscience in Man, may complain, as in