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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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II. Whatever Miscarriages in your Lives, you ⟨p. 26⟩felt your Hearts, when the Earthquakes roused them, smite you for, Oh! Forsake them, Oh! Reform them; After the Earthquakes are over, Oh! Don't return unto those Miscarriages. When the Earth was Trembling, were you conscious to no Miscarriages, which the presages of a Judgment to come set you a Trembling for? Perhaps, the Rumbling Earth, which turned the Night of your pleasure, [unto many, Too much so!] into Terror, made the Murmur in your ears, which, once made the Ears of a Shimei to tingle; I. King. II. 44. Thou knowest all the wickedness which thy Heart is privy to. The Wretch who in the Defiances which by Swearing and Cursing and the Language of black Fiends, proclaimed a Tongue set on Fire of Hell; in the Time of the Earthquakes, doubtless he felt his Heart misgive him; The Great GOD whom I have insulted and affronted, may now send me down into that Fire of Hell, where a drop of water to cool the scorches of my Blasphemous Tongue will be in vain wished for! The Beast which threw away so many precious Hours at the Tavern, and was Drun•••• often with the Liquors wherein is Besotment, and was intoxicated so often with a Cup of Excess; in the Time of Earthquakes, doubtless he felt his Heart misgive him; A Just GOD now makes me stagger by other means than I use to do it; and gives me a Cup of Trembling! How shall I drink off the Dregs of the Cup which there is in the Hand of the Lord for the wicked of the Earth? Such as walked after the Flesh in the Lusts of Uncleanness, in the Time of the Earthquakes doubtless felt their misgiving Hearts griping of them, and saying, Am not I one of the Filthy Inhabitants under which the Earth is defiled? Is there not ⟨p. 27⟩a Day of Judgment coming wherein such wickedness as mine is to be punished? Shall not I have my part in the perdition of ungodly Men, when the Day comes that shall burn like […] Oven? The False-dealer, and such as had Robbed or Earthquakes felt their misgiving Hearts reminding them of their Dishonest Practices, and saying; Hast thou stole? O steal no more; But Restore as soon and as far as thou canst, what has been stolen.
II. Whatever Miscarriages in your Lives, you