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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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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.
What a Deplorable Thing is it, That some of our Congregations have such Contentions and Confusions ⟨p. 39⟩in them, as greatly to defeat such an Enjoyment and such an Improvement of Good Impressions as others are exceedingly Rejoicing in O Lord JESUS, pity them!
On the other hand; A Relapse is always dangerous. If the Good Impressions on the Minds of People from the Earthquakes, quickly vanish, and People become generally as Worldly, and as Prayerless, and as Vicious, as before the Earthquakes, and if the Goodness whereof there is a show made on the Earthquakes, do go away with them, we may Tremble, we may Tremble, at, what is a coming! They who dwell in the Wilderness have cause to be afraid of the Tokens.
On the other hand; A Relapse is always dangerous. If the Good Impressions on the Minds of People from the Earthquakes, quickly vanish, and People become generally as Worldly, and as Prayerless, and as Vitious, as before the Earthquakes, and if the Goodness whereof there is a show made on the Earthquakes, do go away with them, we may Tremble, we may Tremble, at, what is a coming! They who dwell in the Wilderness have cause to be afraid of the Tokens.
As for the Miserables themselves, it looks awfully, as if it must be said, All is in vain; They are a Reprobate Metal; the Lord has Rejected them. It looks awfully, as if this were the Doom from GOD upon them, Never, Never shall any Fruit be found upon them; and as if the Oath of GOD were gone out against them, That they shall never enter into His Rest. There seems to be that sentence from the Mouth of GOD upon these Obdurate Sinners; Ezek. XXIV. 13. Because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged any more, till I have caused my Fury to rest upon thee. That there should be Earthquakes extending for more than Five Hundred Miles; and in several places the Roars continue every Day for some Weeks together, and the shocks be given many sevens of times in these Weeks; and not one life be lost in all! — O the Goodness and Forbearance, and Long-suffering of our GOD! But if this be trifled with, what a Wrath, O Hardened ones, what a Wrath, are you treasuring up against the Day of Wrath! It will be well, if something of a