The terror of the Lord. Some account of the earthquake that shook New-England, in…

When I consider, That the Coming of the Son of Man in the Clouds of Heaven, [which must mean His Literal, Personal, Visible Coming; We take the Name of the Lord in Vain, if we Expound it otherwise,] Tis to be at and for the Destruction of the Roman Monarchy, in the Papal and Final Form of it; And when I consider, the Flames, declared by Daniel, and by Paul, and by Peter, to accomplish it; I confess, I cannot but admire, how any Men of Thought can content themselves, with the commonly Received Opinions, about the Coming of our SAVIOUR in His Kingdom, which are indeed calculated, as if on purpose, to lay and keep the World in that profound SLEEP, wherein the Day of GOD is to find it: Opinions, which the Petrine CONFLAGRATION, makes a miserable Hay and Stubble of! — But, if I should own, That I know of Nothing that remains to be done, before the Lord shall destroy the Man of Sin by the Brightness of His coming; If I should own, That this Word, is like a Fire in my Bones, and I am not easy in forbearing; If I should make the Cry, FIRE, FIRE! The Fire of GOD will sooner than is generally thought for, fall upon a wretched World, which dreams little of it!— I should be as much mocked, and as little minded, as Lot was in the Morning of the Day when he went out of Sodom. The Sleepy People of GOD, will not bear to be Awakened: Our ⟨p. 29⟩SAVIOUR has foretold, That it must be so!—

Wherefore, I will wave it. I will say no more of That. I will say, only what no body doubts of! And I will the rather supersede the former Contemplation, because the very same Actions of Religion, which will prepare for what we are sure cannot be far from us, [Oh! Let us not make it an evil Day, by putting it far from us!] will also prepare us for the Day of GOD, which many are not for, Hastening of; tho' they are Looking for it; but choose to put it further off. 'Tis This; That within a little while, a very little little while, we shall every one of us, be swallowed up in the Earth. Although' the Cry of the many more than Ten Righteous ones prevent any further Earthquake; yet the Opened Mouth of the Earth, will shortly swallow every one of us up! It will do so, in the common way of Mortality: At our Interment it will do so. Indeed, there will be This Difference. In that way we die, and go one after another, and not All together. And in that way, we are not Buried at once on the spot where & when we expire; but are carried from the House where we die, to the House appointed for all the Living. But still, We may die as very suddenly, as if we were suffocated by an Earthquake: and we may go down into the lower parts of the Earth, before another Week be over with us. For this, Of the Day and the Hour knoweth no Man. There is no Man in this very Numerous Collection of People, does know, whether This may not before