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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 do not speak these things, as a Melancholy Visionary, or because of any Delight I can take in keeping my Neighbours under a Fear which has Torment in it. And indeed I am sorry to see, that ever now and then, upon some Idle Rumours and Whimsies, the Heart of this People is moved, as the Trees of the Wood are moved with the Wind; More moved, alas, than they are by the plain Word of GOD brought unto them: Sorry, sorry, to ⟨p. 42⟩see, That foolish Notions •yer now and then started by the Devil, to torture as, and to triumph over our Guilty Souls, will work more upon us, than all the plain Commination of that Word, wherein we have the Glorious GOD marvellously Thundering over us! No, But •••ying the Terror of the Lord, we would persuade you, unto that PIETY, which may divert the Judgments of GOD, that may be hanging over us. And we would have you sing in the ways of that PIETY; fain have you Live Comfortably, and be bravely above the Fear of Evil. You know the Course that Nineveh took, and how it succeeded. What? Shall a New-England be worse than a Ni••ve? GOD forbid! Sirs, They whom Earthquakes do chase into a Life of PIETY, do the best Thing that can be done, to procure a Mark of GOD upon them, for their Preservation, if He should send an Overflowing Scourge, and pour out the Vials of His Wrath on the Children of Disobedience, and of Unpersuadableness. O Believers, Thus taken under the Protection of your SAVIOUR, Hear Him now saying unto you, Fear not, for I am with thee: Be not dismayed, for I am thy GOD.
I do not speak these things, as a Melancholy Visionary, or because of any Delight I can take in keeping my Neighbours under a Fear which has Torment in it. And indeed I am sorry to see, that ever now and then, upon some Idle Rumours and Whimseys, the Heart of this People is moved, as the Trees of the Wood are moved with the Wind; More moved, alas, than they are by the plain Word of GOD brought unto them: Sorry, sorry, to ⟨p. 42⟩see, That foolish Notions •yer now and then started by the Devil, to torture as, and to triumph over our Guilty Souls, will work more upon us, than all the plain Commination of that Word, wherein we have the Glorious GOD marvellously Thundering over us! No, But ying the Terror of the Lord, we would perswade you, unto that PIETY, which may divert the Judgments of GOD, that may be hanging over us. And we would have you sing in the ways of that PIETY; fain have you Live Comfortably, and be bravely above the Fear of Evil. You know the Course that Ninive took, and how it succeeded. What? Shall a New-England be worse than a Nive? GOD forbid! Syrs, They whom Earthquakes do chase into a Life of PIETY, do the best Thing that can be done, to procure a Marke of GOD upon them, for their Preservation, if He should send an Overflowing Scourge, and pour out the Vials of His Wrath on the Children of Disobedience, and of Unperswadeableness. O Beleevers, Thus taken under the Protection of your SAVIOUR, Hear Him now saying unto you, Fear not, for I am with thee: Be not dismayed, for I am thy GOD.