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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.
To set the Matter in a yet further light; The CONVERSION so importunately urged for, is, A Translation from the First Adam to the Second Adam. Wherefore, O Convert passing from Death to Life; Get thy Heart very strongly affected with the Evil Circumstances, into which thy Fall from GOD in the First Adam has reduced and ruined thee. Let Horror take hold on thee when thou dost behold the Universal Disorder and Corruption with which the Poison of the old Serpent so imbibed has infected thee; and behold the Innumerable Transgressions and Rebellious wherein thou hast wickedly denied the GOD that is Above. Go on to behold the violated Law of GOD binding thee over to suffer all the Evil that pursueth sinners: Behold the powers of Darkness enslaving of thee, and thy Soul cistempered and languishing with grievous Diseases; Behold how obnoxious thou art unto the Strange Punishment reserved for the workers of Iniquity in a Future World. And now, Fly away to the Second Adam for thy Help under all these Distresses; Help laid on one that is mighty to save. Behold the Blessed JESUS offering to take thee and make thee His own, and save thee to the uttermost. Beg of Him, and Hope in Him, That by the Sacrifice ⟨p. 25⟩which he made of Himself on the Accursed Tree, and by Influences, derived from Him, all the Miseries conveyed unto thee from the Forbidden Tree, may be relieved and removed. Put thy Trust in the Blessed JESUS, for a life that shall be the Reverse of all the Death, which the unhappy parent of thy Flesh has entailed upon thee. Entreat of Him; O my SAVIOUR, let thy Spirit fill me with the life of GOD. Entreat of Him; O my SAVIOUR, Fit me for, and fetch me to, all the spiritual Blessings of the Heavenly places. Rely on Him, as thy Redeemer. And this with a Comfortable Persuasion of thy Favourable Reception with Him. Thus a CONVERSION is accomplished.
To set the Matter in a yet further light; The CONVERSION so importunately urged for, is, A Translation from the First Adam to the Second Adam. Wherefore, O Convert passing from Death to Life; Get thy Heart very strongly affected with the Evil Circumstances, into which thy Fall from GOD in the First Adam has reduc'd and ruin'd thee. Let Horror take hold on thee when thou dost behold the Universal Disorder and Corruption with which the Poison of the old Serpent so imbibed has infected thee; and behold the Innumerable Transgressions and Rebellious wherein thou hast wickedly denied the GOD that is Above. Go on to behold the violated Law of GOD binding thee over to suffer all the Evil that pursueth sinners: Behold the powers of Darkness enslaving of thee, and thy Soul cistempered and languishing with grievous Diseases; Behold how obnoxious thou art unto the Strange Punispment reserved for the workers of Iniquity in a Future World. And now, Fly away to the Second Adam for thy Help under all these Distresses; Help laid on one that is mighty to save. Behold the Blessed JESUS offering to take thee and make thee His own, and save thee to the uttermost. Beg of Him, and Hope in Him, That by the Sacrifice