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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.
O our dear People, and all you that have had the Right Thoughts of the Righteous by the Earthquakes at all awakened in you, Our Hearts Desire and Prayer to GOD for you, is, That the Good Impressions upon you may not end, in any thing short of a Thorough TURN to GOD and CHRIST and PIETY: And that such a View of Things as you had in the Minutes of the Earthquakes, may in an Effectual Work of Grace, abide with you; and the Fruit thereof be, that you will Fear GOD all the Days that you live upon Earth; and pass the Time of your sojourning here in the Fear, not of Earthquakes, but of the glorious GOD, who has the deep places of the Earth in His Almighty Hand.
In order to THIS, let these Admonitions of the Lord find a due Entertainment with you.
I. A NEW HEART, a NEW HEART, is the First Thing to be made sure of. Be sure, that you do not rest in a Superficial, Defective, Delusive Work, or stop short in any thing less than a Thorough CONVERSION, from the Error of your way, with a Work of Real and Vital PIETY upon you. A lamentable thing, is that work of the Wicked, which is a Deceitful Work. If the Heart be not Right, O Israelite, thou wilt not be steadfast, in adhering to thy Good Impressions. A Thorough CHANGE of STATE, and therefore and therewith a Thorough CHANGE of HEART, is requisite, that so the Good Impressions made upon you, may continue with you; In these is continuance, and so you shall be saved! Without a principle of PIETY, restoring to the Glorious GOD His Throne in your Souls, your Good Impressions from the Earthquakes, will be a sort ⟨p. 22⟩of Mushrooms rising from the Earth, and presently Wither, and Moulder, and Crumble, and come to nothing. Unless the Love of GOD, which is the Root of the Righteous be implanted for a living Principle of PIETY in your Souls, your Good Impressions will be like the Alcherva of Jonah, and Wither in a Night or two.