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

There is the Duty of Commemorating the Death of our SAVIOUR at His Holy Table, whereof the precept is as plain as any words can make it; THIS DO! For the Epidemical Neglect of this Duty, the usual Apology is a very wicked one. 'Tis, I have not prepared for it! Man, The very Apology is it self an Impiety. 'Tis thy Crime, that thou art not prepared. It is pleaded; It is not in me, I can't prepare my self. But, Hast thou done all that is in Thee, and as much as Thou canst, that thou mayst be prepared? The Neglect of this Duty is always a Grief of Mind on a Death-bed, unto such as are not Hardened in their Sins. It must needs be a Grief of Mind in an Earthquake. 'Twill then be a Disconsolate Reflection: There is one Thing, wherein I have disobeyed, and have dishonoured my SAVIOUR all my Days. Not prepared, you say! But suppose it could be told you, Before this Month is out, a formidable Earthquake shall put a stop to your Breathing on the Face of the Earth any more! What would you do to prepare for it? With Madness in your Hearts you are going down to the Dead, if you do not now Immediately, all that were Necessary to be done that you may prepare for This. Now prepare to meet with your own Death, as you are given up to a Reprobates Mind if you do it not, and you will prepare to show forth your Lord's Death at His Holy Table as you ought to do. The jogs of the Earthquakes, have been as Goads upon you, for stimulating of you to ⟨p. 32⟩your Duty. Methinks, you may hear your SAVIOUR from the Earth calling to you, as once from Heaven to another; Soul, Soul, Why dost thou keep at a distance from me? It is hard for thee, and it cannot be safe, to Rick against the Goads.

There is the Duty of Commemorating the Death of our SAVIOUR at His Holy Table, whereof the precept is as plain as any words can make it; THIS DO! For the Epidemical Neglect of this Duty, the usual Apology is a very wicked one. 'Tis, I have not prepared for it! Man, The very Apology is it self an Impiety. 'Tis thy Crime, that thou art not prepared. It is pleaded; It is not in me, I can't prepare my self. But, Hast thou done all that is in Thee, and as much as Thou canst, that thou mayst be prepared? The Neglect of this Duty is always a Grief of Mind on a Death-bed, unto such as are not Hardened in their Sins. It must needs be a Grief of Mind in an Earthquake. 'Twil then be a Disconsolate Reflection: There is one Thing, wherein I have disobey'd, and have dishonoured my SAVIOUR all my Days. Not prepar'd, you say! But suppose it could be told you, Before this Month is out, a formidable Earthquake shall put a stop to your Breathing on the Face of the Earth any more! What would you do to prepare for it? With Madness in your Hearts you are going down to the Dead, if you do not now Immediately, all that were Necessary to be done that you may prepare for This. Now prepare to meet with your own Death, as you are given up to a Reprobats Mind if you do it not, and you will prepare to shew forth your Lord's Death at His Holy Table as you ought to do. The jogs of the Earthquakes, have been as Goads upon you, for stimulating of you to