Boanerges. A short essay to preserve and strengthen the good impressions produced by earthquakes…

The Great and lewd City of Lima, some while ago, felt an Earthquake that sunk a large part of it, and brought in the Sea hideously rolling over it. In their Great Perplexity upon it, the Survivors professed much Attrition of Soul, and laid aside the Quarrels that were among them, and cried out, Our Oppression, our Injustice, and our Extravagances have brought all this upon us. Those poor Spaniards may be our Monitors.—But I have not said all. The Sabbath-breaker, doubtless in the Time of the Earthquakes felt some Twitch••••d some Wishes of a Misgiving Heart; The Holy GOD, who won't let the Earth rest under me, now lets me know, that if I go on to break His Holy Rest, He will send me where I shall have no Rest, neither Day nor Night, but the smoke of the Torment will ascend forever and ever. Lord, Help me to Sabbatize better than I use to do. But, What am I speaking of? Of SABBATIZING! The Thing which pure and undefiled RELIGION, either Lives or Dies withal. Our Sabbath! — NEW ENGLAND, Thy Sabbath, 'tis thy Beauty and thy Defence. Oh! let nothing of This World ever take away thy Crown. Let thy Sabbath be thrown away ⟨p. 28⟩way, and sinned away, and an Ichabod will soon be written on all thy Glory. —Sirs, I cannot go on, without speaking a Good Word for the Best of Days. — Where, where are th• True New-English Sabbatizers? Must we repair unto the Sepulchres of our Fathers to look for them? Where are the Householders that Remember the Sabbath, and make all within their Gates to do so? Where are the Nehemiahs, who will do all they can to lay Restraints upon those, who would bring Wrath upon us by profaning the Sabbath? Can the Ministers of the Gospel do no more, that the Remote Inhabitants of their Parishes, where many stay at or near the Meeting-houses all the Time that intervenes between the two public Meetings, may be put into the Best Method of spending the Holy Time in the Best manner; and keep up the zeal of Sabbatizing? If we won't Rest with and in GOD on His Day, GOD will not suffer His Earth to Rest under us, or permit us to Rest upon it. A plain Country-man once being changed and raised into a Prophet of GOD, the Date of his […] phecies was, Two Years before the [Famous Uzztan] Earthquake. Now, having foretold, That in that Earthquake, the Lord would Roar out of Zion, he mentions the Transgressions that would call for such a thing. One of them is This;

The Great and lewd City of Lima, some while ago, felt an Earthquake that sunk a large part of it, and brought in the Sea hideously rolling over it. In their Great Perplexity upon it, the Survivers profess'd much Attrition of Soul, and laid aside the Quarrels that were among them, and cried out, Our Oppression, our Injustice, and our Extravagances have brought all this upon us. Those poor Spaniards may be our Monitors.—But I have not said all. The Sabbath-breaker, doubtless in the Time of the Earthquakes felt some Twitchd some Wishes of a Misgiving Heart; The Holy GOD, who won't let the Earth rest under me, now lets me know, that if I go on to break His Holy Rest, He will send me where I shall have no Rest, neither Day nor Night, but the smoke of the Torment will ascend forever and ever. Lord, Help me to Sabbatize better than I use to do. But, What am I speaking of? Of SABBATIZING! The Thing which pure and undefiled RELIGION, either Lives or Dies withal. Our Sabbath! — NEW ENGLAND, Thy Sabbath, 'tis thy Beauty and thy Defence. Oh! let nothing of This World ever take away thy Crown. Let thy Sabbath be thrown away