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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
The Memorandums are not over yet. My Friend, Remember you not, what you said, when you were in the Land and the Hand of your Enemies; you sat in Darkness, and in the shadow of Death; and you had little Hope of ever being again in the Arms of those, who were now put far from you? Then you Cried unto the Lord; and you said; Oh! If the Lord will Restore me to my Liberty, with what an Enlarged Heart shall I run the way of His Commandments.
And will the Daughters of Eve give me leave to be a Remembrancer unto Them? When the ⟨p. 12⟩Time of your Travail and your Trouble, and the perils of Child bearing drew near, and you conceived yourselves entering the Valley of the shadow of Death, You Then said, Behold, The Handmaid of the Lord! If the Lord carry me to and through' my Time, I will forever behave my self as becomes an Handmaid of the Lord.
And will the Daughters of Eve give me leave to be a Remembrancer unto Them? When the ⟨p. 12⟩Time of your Travail and your Trouble, and the perils of Child bearing drew near, and you conceived yourselves entring the Valley of the shadow of Death, You Then said, Behold, The Handmaid of the Lord! If the Lord carry me to and thro' my Time, I will forever behave my self as becomes an Handmaid of the Lord.
In fine, Do you Remember nothing of what you thought when you self the Earth trembling and rumbling in a tremendous Earthquake under you? Did not your Hearts then smite you for your keeping at a distance from your SAVIOUR; and for the various Miscarriages of an ungodly and unrighteous Life? And was it not the purpose of your Hearts, I will not offend any more?