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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.
We are very solicitous, that when our Earthquakes are over, the Good Impressions which they have caused may not be over too. But what was ⟨p. 19⟩it I said? — when our Earthquakes are over! Who can say when That will be! I will mention a Thing which is not generally known among us. The Celebrated Earthquake, which terrified New-England in the latter end of January, between the years 1662. and 1663. not only reached unto Canada to the Northward of us, and, as the French Historian says, Occasioned incredible Desolations on the surface of the Earth for above four hundred Leagues throughout that Country: But also continued Five or Six Months together. Who can say, what may be our Portion? I am sure, there can be nothing more seasonable, than the Exhortation I am coming to.
We are very sollicitous, that when our Earthquakes are over, the Good Impressions which they have caused may not be over too. But what was ⟨p. 19⟩it I said? — when our Earthquakes are over! Who can say when That will be! I will mention a Thing which is not generally known among us. The Celebrated Earthquake, which terrisied NewEngland in the latter end of January, between the years 1662. and 1663. not only reached unto Canada to the Northward of us, and, as the French Historian says, Occasion'd incredible Desolations on the surface of the Earth for above four hundred Leagues throughout that Countrey: But also continued Five or Six Months together. Who can say, what may be our Portion? I am sure, there can be nothing more seasonable, than the Exhortation I am coming to.
We read concerning Two Ministers, upon whom our Lord put the Name of BOANERGES. The Name will signify, Sons of Earthquake, as well as what we commonly take it, Of Thunder. Our Lord in imposing that Name on these two Ministers, might have Respect unto that Prophecy, I will shake all Nations, and the desire of all Nations shall come. These Ministers might have a Notable Delivery, as Nazianzen intimates, by the Advantage whereof what they delivered might come like Thunder on the Hearers. But this is not all; There were to be mighty Commotions even like those of an Earthquake, in subserviency to the Interests of the Gospel; and our Lord would make a singular use of these Ministers in those Commotions; who were to carry the Gospel with a Force like that of Thunder also, through' the Jewish Nation.