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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.
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 ⟨p. 40⟩Pestilential Aspect be not quickly shot among us, wherein the slain of the Lord way be many. — I say, something of a Pestilential Aspect. Our LORD having spoken of, Earthquakes in diverse places, presently proceeds to speak of, Pestilences. Upon the amazing Earthquakes, wherein the mighty City of Antioch, with many other places was demolished, before our Apostle John could be well cold in his Grave, which, I suppose, our Lord in His Prediction had His Eye first upon, there came on such a Pestilence that it looked as if the World was going to be dis-peopled; and the Relics of it remained even to the Time of the Martyr Cyprian. When there had been an Earthquake in the Wilderness, where the People as soon as they Recovered out of the Cries into which it had thrown them, discovered an Incurable Obstinacy in their Vile Tempers, and their Base Doings, the Next News is, A Pestilence, which destroyed many Thousands of them. After the never-to-be-forgotten Earthquake in one of our well-known Islands, that some now among us were present at, Half the People saved from the perdition at Port-royal, died of a Pestilence at Kingston; where five hundred Graves were dug within a Month, and sometimes Two or Three buried in one Hole together;
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;