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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.
It is a Remark very near akin to This. How do amazing Thunders usually operate? People are Afraid even with much amazement under the Thunderclaps; Afraid of Irresistible and Far-terebrating Thunderbolts. When the Lightning is directed unto the Ends of the Earth, and after it a Voice roareth; and God Thunders with the Voice of His Excellency; God Thunders marvellously with His Voice; Lo, At this our Hearts tremble, and are even removed out of their place. But how quickly, how sadly, do the Thunders ⟨p. 17⟩lose their Efficacy! The Thunders do cease, and yet Men do not Fear the Lord God, as when it Thundered, they say, They would.
It is a Remark very near akin to This. How do amazing Thunders usually operate? People are Afraid even with much amazement under the Thunderclaps; Afraid of Irresistible and Far-terebrating Thunderbolts. When the Lightning is directed unto the Ends of the Earth, and after it a Voice roreth; and God Thunders with the Voice of His Excellency; God Thunders marvellously with His Voice; Lo, At this our Hearts tremble, and are even removed out of their place. But how quickly, how sadly, do the Thunders ⟨p. 17⟩lose their Efficacy! The Thunders do cease, and yet Men do not Fear the Lord God, as when it Thundred, they say, They would.
O the Inconstancy of our Carnal minds! Constant only in their Enmity to GOD! People seem to be very Good while they have the loud peals of the Thunders discharging over them; and they fear lest the Next Flash of the Lightnings render them a Pillar of Salt. But they are not the same after the Thunders are over, that they were in the Time of the Thunders. — How often have I thought! — O! If my dear Neighbours were disposed after the Thunders as they are under them! — How Happy would they be! How Holy would they be! What a Religious Neighbourhood; and how full of PIETY!
O the Inconstancy of our Carnal minds! Constant only in their Enmity to GOD! People seem to be very Good while they have the loud peals of the Thunders discharging over them; and they fear lest the Next Flash of the Lightenings render them a Pillar of Salt. But they are not the same after the Thunders are over, that they were in the Time of the Thunders. — How often have I thought! — O! If my dear Neighbours were disposed after the Thunders as they are under them! — How Happy would they be! How Holy would they be! What a Religious Neighbourhood; and how full of PIETY!