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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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Be sure, Earthquakes alone, will not cure the Love of Sin in Men, and cause them to Turn and Live unto GOD. If People should feel what may ⟨p. 16⟩force them to flee for their Lives, with the utmost confusion, from an all-devouring Earthquake, — As they fled from before the Earthquake, in the Days of Uzziah King of Judah, — This will not cause them to flee from their Sins. If People should see what is not now a New Thing, the Earth open its Mouth, and swallow up their Neighbours by Hundreds at a Morsel, and a multitude going down alive into the Pit, and the Earth closing upon them, yet in flying from the Tents of wicked Men at their lamentable Cry, Lest the Earth swallow up them also, — it would be no New Thing, if they do not fly from the Ways of Wicked Men. Are there not Nefandous Instances of People continuing in the Actual Commission of Disorderly Things, even in the very Time of an Earthquake? Yea, People making themselves Drunk, and Reeling to and fro with strong Drink, while the Earth has just been Reeling to and fro like a Drunkard under them, and roaring against them? And Robberies committed, even while the Earthquake has afforded an Opportunity for the Thieves to exert their cursed. Faculty? Hardened Sinners! There is no Reclaiming of them!
Be sure, Earthquakes alone, will not cure the Love of Sin in Men, and cause them to Turn and Live unto GOD. If People should feel what may ⟨p. 16⟩force them to flee for their Lives, with the utmost confusion, from an all-devouring Earthquake, — As they fled from before the Earthquake, in the Days of Uzziah King of Judah, — This will not cause them to flee from their Sins. If People should see what is not now a New Thing, the Earth open its Mouth, and swallow up their Neighbours by Hundreds at a Morsel, and a multitude going down alive into the Pit, and the Earth closing upon them, yet in flying from the Tents of wicked Men at their lamentable Cry, Lest the Earth swallow up them also, — it would be no New Thing, if they do not fly from the Ways of Wicked Men. Are there not Nefandous Instances of People continuing in the Actual Commission of Disorderly Things, even in the very Time of an Earthquake? Yea, People making themselves Drunk, and Reeling to and fro with strong Drink, while the Earth has just been Reeling to and fro like a Drunkard under them, and roaring against them? And Robberies committed, even while the Earthquake has afforded an Opportunity for the Theeves to exert their cursed. Faculty? Hardened Sinners! There is no Reclaiming of them!