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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.
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. A Great Earthquake, such •s has not been since Men were on the Earth, so Mighty […] Earthquake, and so Great an one. I again, and again, declare it unto you; The Coming of the Son of N••n in the Clouds of Heaven, 'tis what we know of Nothing to Retard it or Protract it. We are told, It must be at and for the Destruction of that Roman Monarchy, for which the last Period of Twelve Hundred and Sixty Years are most certainly upon their Expiration. An Excellent Pen, which New-England will have Singular cause to know, has in an Incomparable Treatise on the Sacred Prophecies, with much Erudition shown, and with much Demonstration proved, That there is abundance of cause to think, the Expiration of that Black Period may have been above Ten Years ago. What Pause our Glorious LORD may now make, before the Next Thing which we have to look for, and what He may please to Do in this Pause, and whether in this Pause a more General, and a more Terrible Slaughter ⟨p. 44⟩of the Witnesses, m••• not be carried on, we can not say; For my par•• I have not the Knowledge of the Holy ones. But for the Coming of the Son of Man in the Clouds of Heaven, which, O Vain Men, will not be found a Metaphor, It may, for any thing I know, be the Next Thing that is to be looked fo•. All that the Oracles of GOD have mentioned, […] Things to be done before it, an Accomplished: I say, All Accomplished! Certainly, The Kingdom of GOD is at hand: And in the introducing of it, The Foundations of the Earth shall shake; The Earth shall be utterly broken down; The Earth shall be clean dissolved; The Earth shall be moved exceedingly. O Kiss the Feet of the SON of GOD, whose hot wrath will quickly flame; and then, Blessed are they who trust in Him.