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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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Secondly; The Proof of it; For this we will repair unto Experience. And, Hear this, O all ye People, every one of you: May we not say, 'Tis your own Experience. The Scripture tells us, of some; Isa. XXVI. 16. Lord, In Trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a Prayer, when thy Chastening was upon them. Yea, but our Experience will every day tell us, Lord, How many are they, who when they are afraid of Trouble, do say, They will visit GOD every day as long as they live! How many are they who pour out a Prayer, when Danger is upon them! O that the Sermon of this Day, might be a Sermon to bring unto Remembrance! How many, ⟨p. 11⟩O our dear People, How many of you, may Remember the Dangers, wherein you were at that pass; Jer. II. 20. Thou saidst, I will not Transgress! Remember you not, what you said, when you lay Sick, and like to Die of your Sickness, and pale Death looked you in the Face, and you looked on yourselves as deprived of the Residue of your years, and Summoned before the Tribunal of GOD? Then you said, Oh! If GOD will spare my life, I will do nothing but serve the GOD of my life: I will hate and loathe and shun all the Sin that once I loved; and lead a life of all Godliness and Honesty! Remember you not, what you said, when a Storm at Sea had almost swallowed you up, and you were cast into Horror, by the Horrible Tempest; Your Soul was melted because of Trouble; You saw yourselves going down into the deep Waters; You feared you were going down into the Eternal Burnings? Then you said; Oh! If GOD will please, that I may out-live this Death, I will never Sin against Him any more as heretofore! I will do nothing that may render my Death uneasy and unwelcome to me!
Secondly; The Proof of it; For this we will repair unto Experience. And, Hear this, O all ye People, every one of you: May we not say, 'Tis your own Experience. The Scripture tells us, of some; Isa. XXVI. 16. Lord, In Trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a Prayer, when thy Chastening was upon them. Yea, but our Experience will every day tell us, Lord, How many are they, who when they are afraid of Trouble, do say, They will visit GOD every day as long as they live! How many are they who pour out a Prayer, when Danger is upon them! O that the Sermon of this Day, might be a Sermon to bring unto Remembrance! How many,