N02463:19
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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Never did the City of BOSTON, in the Ninety seven Years that have rolled over it, see ⟨p. 7⟩such a Night, as what we saw a few Hours ago. A MIDNIGHT CRY was heard; The Consternation whereof is not this Morning over with us; An Anguish like that on a Travailing Woman, seized upon Men as well as Women. What Fear, from the Apprehension of going to the Pill, by a stroke like a snare upon us!
Never did the City of BOSTON, in the Ninety seven Years that have rolled over it, see ⟨p. 7⟩such a Night, as what we saw a few Hours ago. A MIDNIGHT CRY was heard; The Consternation whereof is not this Morning over with us; An Auguish like that on a Travailing Woman, siezed upon Men as well as Women. What Fear, from the Apprehension of going to the Pil, by a stroke like a suare upon us!
We have had the repeated, more than three times repeated Shocks, of a Formidable EARTHQUAKE. And GOD knows, whether there are any more to come, or what Execution they may do, when they come.
We have had the repeted, more than three times repeted Shocks, of a Formidable EARTHQUAKE. And GOD knows, whether there are any more to come, or what Execution they may do, when they come.
When the never-to-be-forgotten Sicilian EARTHQUAKE in our Days, had given some Shocks which only terrified the People, after an Intermission of Two Days, there came on those, which horribly destroyed them; A Bosom of Destruction that swept away near one hundred and fifty Thousand of them.