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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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Oh! That one of the Boanerges were here to have the management of this EXHORTATION; and that he who is a Son of Earthquake, in Essays to ⟨p. 20⟩serve the Intentions of the present Commotions, might be a Son of Thunder, in bringing with it the Right Words that shall be Forcible!
The EXHORTATION that now speaks unto you, and must not be Forgotten, is This. Let those that have had Good Impressions on their Minds from the Earthquakes which have newly shaken us, Beware lest they lose the Good Impressions; Exceedingly Beware, Infinitely Beware, lest when they imagine the Earthquakes are ceased, it appear that that their Heart was not Right in, and not Reached by, the Good Impressions, nor were they steadfast; But they Forget what they Thought and Said and Vowed, when the Earthquakes were upon them.
The EXHORTATION that now speaks unto you, and must not be Forgotten, is This. Let those that have had Good Impressions on their Minds from the Earthquakes which have newly shaken us, Beware lest they lose the Good Impressions; Exceedingly Beware, Infinitely Beware, lest when they imagine the Earthquakes are ceased, it appear that that their Heart was not Right in, and not Reach'd by, the Good Impressions, nor were they stedfast; But they Forget what they Thought and Said and Vow'd, when the Earthquakes were upon them.
At the Time of the Battle between those two Grand Robbers, which were disputing the Empire of the World, there was a Great Earthquake: But the Business of the Battle so engaged the combatants, that they took not the least Notice of it. Few People have been so Busy, or so Drowsy, or so Stupid, as to take no Notice of the Repeated Shocks and Roars, wherein GOD has from a Trembling Earth sent forth His Thundering mighty Voice unto us. I wish, we may not be so Busy about our Worldly Affairs and Pleasures, as to take too little Notice of what that Thundering Voice has declared unto us. But we read of such a Thing as That,