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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.
But, Lifting up a Voice like a Trumpet, I declare unto you that are Impenitent under and after such Earthquakes as have come to rouse us from the Dead sleep upon us, Earthquakes are not all the Arrows, in the Quiver of GOD, ordained for those, by whom He is provoked every day. But if Earthquake; will not move you, it seems come to a, Conclama•um est.— Alass,— It looks as if the last Mean; were used; and all that remains were only this; He that being often Reproved, hardens his Neck, shall be lestroyed suddenly, and without any Remedy. Yea.
But, Lifting up a Voice like a Trumpet, I declare unto you that are Impenitent under and after such Earthquakes as have come to rowse us from the Dead sleep upon us, Earthquakes are not all the Arrows, in the Quiver of GOD, ordained for those, by whom He is proveked every day. But if Earthquake; will not move you, it seems come to a, Conclama•um est.— Alass,— It looks as if the last Mean; were used; and all that remains were only this; He that being often Reproved, hardens his Neck, shall be lestroyed suddenly, and without any Remedy. Yea.
Yea, A General Impenitence under and after such Earthquakes, what w•• it betoken, but that these Earthquakes, are not other than the Beginning of Sorrows! There have been tremendous Earthquakes in former and ••er Ages; The History of them were enough […] cast a wicked World into all the Trepidations which a Mene Tekel threw a Belshazzar into. The Motto on the Title-Page of such an History, •ight be That, Come and see the Works of GOD; I•e is Terrible in His Doing towards the Children of Me•. But I am certain, a Greater Earthquake than all of those, is what we have cause to live in Expectation of: Even that Earthquake, whereof we are warned, Rev. XVI. 18