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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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Certainly, you will not expect, that I should spend any time in proving, That there is a VOICE of the glorious GOD, in all that He does, in the World. All the Works of Creation, and all the Works of Providence, there is a Voice of the glorious GOD in them. He speaks in all ⟨p. 10⟩that He does. And there is no place, where their Voice may not be beard. O Deaf we, if we hear it not! — That Voice, — O Love, O Admire, O Adore, the glorious One, who does all these things. O Fear this GOD, and give Glory unto Him!
CErtainly, you will not expect, that I should spend any time in proving, That there is a VOICE of the glorious GOD, in all that He does, in the World. All the Works of Creation, and all the Works of Providence, there is a Voice of the glorious GOD in them. He speaks in all ⟨p. 10⟩that He does. And there is no place, where their Voice may not be beard. O Deaf we, if we hear it not! — That Voice, — O Love, O Admire, O Adore, the glorious One, who does all these things. O Fear this GOD, and give Glory unto Him!
'Tis very sure; In the Works wherein the glorious GOD goes out of the Ordinary Road, or, His Extraordinary Dispensations; In these, His Voice becomes very Notable; and most inexcusable are they who Regard not the Works of the Lord, nor the Operation of His Hands: He shall destroy them, and not build them up.
EARTHQUAKES are such Works. We read, Psal. XXIX. 8. The Voice of the Lord shakes the Wilderness. There is the Voice of the Lord, in it, when He shakes our Territories. — There may be some Earthquakes more Supernatural than others: We reckon that of Mount Sinai One; And so we reckon that at the Resurrection of our Blessed JESUS; and yet more conspicuously that of His Crucifixion. The split Rocks at this Day observed by Travellers who are Protestants, and somewhat Nice in their Credulity, are thought by some no Injudicious Men, to be the lasting Monuments and Memorials of it. But usually, our Earthquakes have Natural Causes assigned for them. What they are, 'tis now and here, neither a Time nor Place for Philosophical Disquisitions. Whether Colluctations of Minerals producing Vapours that must have an Explosion,