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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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We have Two Occasions, to repair unto our gracious GOD; we have Two Petitions to carry unto Him. The one is, That we may have the Grace to know, and to do, the Duties, which the Earthquake does in its hideous Rumbles most sensible call us to. The other is; That there may be no such Returns of the Earthquake as to lay us in Desolations, and make our Plagues wonderful. But, the success of our Supplications, will very much turn upon our Attention to the Voice of our glorious GOD in the Earthquake which is ⟨p. 9⟩now affrighting of us. Don't we remember those Divine Retaliations; As He cried, and they would not hear, so they cried and I would not hear, saith the Lord of Hosts. And again, Because I called, and ye refused, I will laugh at your Calamity, and I will mock when your Fear cometh; when your Fear cometh as Desolation, and your Destruction corneth as a Whirlwind; when Distress and Anguish cometh upon you? Yea, I may say unto you, The Dispositions of PIETY, will be so many Supplications; and indeed, the best sort of Supplications, the most proper and the most potent Supplications; There are pure Hands lifted up in our Supplications when we Do what our GOD has obliged us to.
We have Two Occasions, to repair unto our gracious GOD; we have Two Petitions to carry unto Him. The one is, That we may have the Grace to know, and to do, the Duties, which the Earthquake does in its hideous Rumbles most sensible call us to. The other is; That there may be no such Returns of the Earthquake as to lay us in Desolations, and make our Plagues wonderful. But, the success of our Supplications, will very much turn upon our Attention to the Voice of our glorious GOD in the Earthquake which is ⟨p. 9⟩now affrighting of us. Don't we remember those Divine Retaliations; As He cried, and they would not hear, so they cried and I would not hear, saith the Lord of Hosts. And again, Because I called, and ye refused, I will laugh at your Calamity, and I will mock when your Fear cometh; when your Fear cometh as Desolatioa, and your Destruction corneth as a Whirlwind; when Distress and Anguish cometh upon you? Yea, I may say unto you, The Dispositions of PIETY, will be so many Supplications; and indeed, the best sort of Supplications, the most proper and the most potent Supplications; There are pure Hands lifted up in our Supplications when we Do what our GOD has oblig'd us to.