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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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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.
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, Hos. VII. 16. They are like a Deceitful Bow. The Thing whereof there is a most grievous Hazard, is, That the Wicked Bent of many Minds for the ways of Sin, having by the Earthquakes had some strain upon it, upon the ceasing of the Earthquakes, the Deceitful Bow will return where it was; the strain being taken off, they will return to their ⟨p. 21⟩old Bent, and they will go on still in their Trespasses.
At the Time of the Battel between those two Grand Robbers, which were disputing the Empire of the World, there was a Great Earthquake: But the Business of the Battel 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 Repeted Shocks and Roars, wherein GOD has from a Trembling Earth sent forth His Thundring 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 Thundring Voice has declared unto us. But we read of such a Thing as That, Hos. VII. 16. They are like a Deceitful Bowe. The Thing whereof there is a most grievous Hazard, is, That the Wicked Bent of many Minds for the ways of Sin, having by the Earthquakes had some strain upon it, upon the ceasing of the Earthquakes, the Deceitful Bowe will return where it was; the strain being taken off, they will return to their ⟨p. 21⟩old Bent, and they will go on still in their Trespasses.