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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.
But, How shall This be come at? Very surprising is that Command; Ezek. XVI. 31. Make your selves a New Heart. What? When, O Sinner, Thou art Feeble and sore Broken, and mostly Roaring by reason of the Desperate Wickedness in thy Heart, from which, none but an Almighty GOD, Oh! wretched one that thou art! —None but an Almighty GOD can deliver thee! It is none but an GOD even one who can transform Stone into Flesh, that can give thee Another Heart; None but one who can Create a whole World, can Create a Clean Heart, and can make a New Heart in a Sinner that is Accustomed to do Evil. Wherefore when our GOD bids thee, Make thy self a New Heart; His meaning is, Look unto me, to make it for thee! The Good Work begins, in an Hearty ⟨p. 23⟩Weeping and Making Supplication to GOD for a New Heart. Seeing and Feeling and Owning thy own Death, and lying among the slain, Oh! Make thy Moans and thy Groans, even the Groans of a deadly wounded Man, unto a GOD, whose Name is, The Lord GOD, Merciful and Gracious and abundant in Goodness. Groan at this rate unto Him; Turn thou me, O Lord, and I shall be Turned! O Great GOD, Make me a New Creature, and bestow a New Heart upon me! It looks Hopefully, —as if the Fear of GOD were actually beginning in thee, and as if the Beginning of Wisdom were dawning on thee, when thou art come into a desire to Fear His Name. The Good Work has its Beginning in the desire of it. GOD will be attentive to the Prayer of such as desire to Fear His Name. Life is beginning to show it self in Breathing after it.
But, How shall This be come at? Very surprising is that Command; Ezek. XVI. 31. Make your selves a New Heart. What? When, O Sinner, Thou art Feeble and sore Broken, and maystly Roaring by reason of the Desperate Wickedness in thy Heart, from which, none but an Almighty GOD, Oh! wretched one that thou art! —None but an Almighty GOD can deliver thee! It is none but an GOD even one who can transform Stone into Flesh, that can give thee Another Heart; None but one who can Create a whole World, can Create a Clean Heart, and can make a New Heart in a Sinner that is Accustomed to do Evil. Wherefore when our GOD bids thee, Make thy self a New Heart; His meaning is, Look unto me, to make it for thee! The Good Work begins, in an Hearty ⟨p. 23⟩