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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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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, ⟨p. 11⟩may cause those direful Convulsions in the Bowels of the Earth, which are felt in our Earthquakes? — Or, whether the huge quantities of Waters, running in the Bowels of the Earth, may not by Degrees wash away the Bottom of the upper Strata here and there, so as to cause their falling in? —Or, whether the Subterraneous Fires, getting head, may not by their Sulphureous and Bituminous Exhalations in the Bowels of the Earth, cause a Combustion that may carry all before it? — Or, whether — But it must be something more Theological, that you are now to be treated with. Let the Natural Causes of Earthquakes be what the Wise Men of Enquiry please, They and their Causes are still under the Government of HIM that is the GOD of Nature. Shall we say, All this is but a Chance that happens to us, or the mere unguided Motion of Matter? Ah, profane Philistine! — 'Tis a Language for none but a Philistine. A Christian cannot speak so; No, He is one that will be sensible of GOD in these things. Verily, In them, Lo, GOD sends forth His Voice, and that a mighty Voice unto us.
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,