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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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III. Make Haste, and, Oh, Delay not Immediately to keep those Commandments of GOD, in which the Earthquakes made you think, Without any further delay, this Duty shall be complied withal Not only Sins of Commission but also Sins of Omission had in the Earthquakes the Reproofs of GOD given unto them. Truly, The Best Thing that can be desired for you, is; That you may order your Conversation aright, just as you most approved, at the Time when the Earthquakes made you d••e ⟨p. 30⟩the Salvation of GOD. Some in the Time of the Earthquakes are for getting as near to those whom they take to be Good Men as they can, professing their Choice to die with such. But, Children, whom do you choose to live withal? There are Points of a Good Conversation in CHRIST, which perhaps you were not fully come up to. But in the Time of the Earthquakes you thought, I will now do what I know to be my Duty. Now, with the Earthquakes there was that Roaring out of Zion unto you; Heb. III. 7. To Day, Oh! Hear the Voice of GOD. There can be no greater Part or Proof of Prudence than This; For a Man to think, What have I left undone, that if I were now a dying I should wish to have done? And go do accordingly. And now, My Friends, Think with your selves. If you felt the Earthquakes causing your Houses to fall upon you, and crush you to Death in the Ruins of them; Or, if you felt the Earthquakes cause those formidable Apertures in the Ground, which would be the Gates of Death hideously opening for you; Think, What is the Duty which, I have lift undone, the Neglect whereof would now make me feel the Bitterness of Death upon me? The Religion of the Closet, and, Family Religion, and, The Holy Table Religiously approached unto; Such as these are Points of PIETY, which Earthquakes compel the Minds of Men, to confess their Obligations to, and Chastise them for the neglecting of. If you saw your selves going down into the horrible Caverns, which Earthquakes may sink you down into, would it not exceedingly terrify you, to think, I have not this Day been on my Knees in secret before the Glorious GOD? If Earthquakes made it ⟨p. 31⟩not safe that you should stay in your Habitations, and yet made you at a loss where to be safe by running out of them, would it not exceedingly terrify you to think, that you had never, or seldom, or poorly called upon GOD in your Habitations?