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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.
I will not have this called, A Digression. However, I will go no further in This; but go on to ⟨p. 29⟩say, We read, I. Joh. III. 20. If our Hearts Condemn us, GOD u Greater than our Hearts, and knoweth all Things. Now, Bring Things to mind, O Transgressors. In the Time of the Earthquakes, the Glorious GOD, set up his Tribunal in your Hearts, and set you as before His Judgment-seat. Every Thing in your ways, which the light of GOD in your Hearts, then Condemned as an Evil Thing, Oh! Hate it, Oh! Shun it, Oh! Avoid all occasions of it: And if you are Tempted at any time hereafter to Repeat it, Answer and Conquer the Temptation so: If I felt the Earth now shaking under me, and gaping for me, should I venture to do such a wicked Thing? It were as bad as to leap into the direful Chasms of the Earth opening in an Earthquake, to do such a wicked Thing! When the Egyptians would venture into the Deep, at a Time when, as it is hinted in the LXXVII. Psalm, The Earth trembled and shook; what came of it? We read, Exod. XV. 12. Thou stretchedest thy Hand and the Earth swallowed them. Hardy sinner, Wilt thou velure on, to do as thou didst use to do? To do so is to challenge the out-stretching of that Hand, that can soon cause the Earth to swallow thee.
I will not have this called, A Digression. However, I will go no further in This; but go on to ⟨p. 29⟩say, We read, I. Joh. III. 20. If our Hearts Condemn us, GOD u Greater than our Hearts, and know•th all Things. Now, Bring Things to mind, O Transgressors. In the Time of the Earthquakes, the Glorious GOD, set up his Tribunal in your Hearts, and set you as before His Judgment-seat. Every Thing in your ways, which the light of GOD in your Hearts, then Condemned as an Evil Thing, Oh! Hate it, Oh! Shun it, Oh! Avoid all occasions of it: And if you are Tempted at any time hereafter to Repeat it, Answer and Conquer the Temptation so: If I felt the Earth now shaking under me, and gaping for me, should I venture to do such a wicked Thing? It were as bad as to leap into the direful Chasms of the Earth opening in an Earthquake, to do such a wicked Thing! When the Egyptians would venture into the Deep, at a Time when, as it is hinted in the LXXVII. Psalm, The Earth trembled and shook; what came of it? We read,