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

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 ⟨p. 30⟩this Day Se'might be his Portion.

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 chuse 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. Altho' 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