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The terror of the Lord. Some account of the earthquake that shook New-England, in…
The terror of the Lord. Some account of the earthquake that shook New-England, in the night, between the 29 and the 30 of October. 1727. : With a speech, made unto the inhabitants of Boston, who assembled the next morning, for the proper exercises of religion, on so uncommon, and so tremendous an occasion. : [One line from Corinthians]
Boston: printed by T. Fleet for S. Kneeland, 1727
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When these Exercises were finished about Two in the Afternoon, after some short Intermission of an Hour or Two, several Churches in the other part of the Town, followed the Example, and with vast Congregations, continued the proper Exercises of Religion, until about Eight a Clock in the Evening. For the Animation thereof, there was not only the joint Inclination of the Pastors and the People, but likewise a Recommendation from His Honour the L. GOVERNOR; Whose Piety, ever discovered on every other, as well as this, Occasion, disposed him, to Direct also the keeping of the Thursday following (which is the Day of the usual weekly Lecture,) as a Day of SUPPLICATIONS in all the Churches of the City.
When these Exercises were finished about Two in the Afternoon, after some short Interraission of an Hour or Two, several Churches in the other part of the Town, followed the Exemple, and with vast Congregations, continued the proper Exercises of Religion, until about Eight a Clock in the Evening. For the Animation thereof, there was not only the joint Inclination of the Pastors and the People, but likewise a Recommendation from His Honour the L. GOVERNOUR; Whose Piety, ever discovered on every other, as well as this, Occasion, disposed him, to Direct also the keeping of the Thursday following (which is the Day of the usual weekly Lecture,) as a Day of SUPPLICATIONS in all the Churches of the City.
In the Year 1580. England felt an Earthquake, which tho' no considerable Damage was done by it, awakened the Government of the Nation, to call upon all the Subjects throughout the Kingdom, to be fervent and instant in Prayer, that the Wrath of GOD whereof the Earthquake was a Token, might be averted from the Land. Such a Disposition possesses our Commander in Chief, and his People most readily come into it.
One of the MINISTERS, who did their part, in the Great Assembly of the Morning judged it Expedient, yea, Necessary, that PRAYER