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

There was an Earthquake at the giving of the Law. An Earthquake should bring us to a Reflection on our breaking of the Law. Retire, O sinful Man, Retire; and first Confessing the Sovereign Grace which must shine forth in enabling ⟨p. 31⟩of thee, if thou art enabled ever to turn unto GOD, then Consider thy ways. Take the Ten Commandments, with the Exposition of the Catechism upon them; and Reflecting upon thy Trespassing against what is Forbidden and what is Required, in the Commandments, loath and judge thy self before the Lord, for thy many and heinous Trespasses. Go back to thy Original Sin, which has been the source of all thy Actual Sins, and of Innumerable Evils: Thy share in the Guilt of the first Apostasy: Thy deriving from thence an Heart that is Desperately wicked, and a Mother of Abominations. Full of Self-abhorrence, present before the glorious GOD, the Blood of His own SON, which Cleanses from all Sin; Admiring the Merit and Virtue of that Blood, Beg and Hope on the account thereof to be cleansed from all thy Sin. Do this, and weep to a GOD Ready to pardon; until His good SPIRIT has raised a Comfortable Persuasion in thee, that He has pardoned thee. At the same, take up a full purpose of Heart, that thou wilt cleave to Him, and walk with Him, in perpetual Endeavours to keep a Conscience void of Offence before Him, to the period of thy Days. This is the way, Oh! walk in it; and thou shalt find Rest for thy Soul; A Rest wherein tho' an Earthquake may toss about the Earth under thy feet, thou shalt yet sing; The Lord is my Defence, I shall not be moved!

There was an Earthquake at the giving of the Law. An Earthquake should bring us to a Reflection on our breaking of the Law. Retire, O sinful Man, Retire; and first Confessing the Sovereign Grace which must shine forth in enabling ⟨p. 31⟩of thee, if thou art enabled ever to turn unto GOD, then Consider thy ways. Take the Ten Commandments, with the Exposition of the Catechism upon them; and Reflecting upon thy Trespassing against what is Forbidden and what is Required, in the Commandments, loath and judge thy self before the Lord, for thy many and heinous Trespasses. Go back to thy Original Sin, which has been the source of all thy Actual Sins, and of Innumerable Evils: Thy share in the Guilt of the first Apostasy: Thy deriving from thence an Heart that is Desperately wicked, and a Mother of Abominations. Full of Self-abborrence, present before the glorious GOD, the Blood of His own SON, which Cleanses from all Sin; Admiring the Merit and Virtue of that Blood, Beg and Hope on the account thereof to be cleansed from all thy Sin. Do this, and weep to a GOD Ready to pardon; until His good SPIRIT has raised a Comfortable Perswasion in thee, that He has pardon'd thee. At the same, take up a full purpose of Heart, that thou wilt cleave to Him, and walk with Him, in perpetual Endeavours to keep a Conscience void of Offence before Him, to the period of thy Days. This is the way, Oh! walk in it; and thou shalt find Rest for thy Soul; A Rest wherein tho' an Earthquake may toss about the Earth under thy seet, thou shalt yet sing; The Lord is my Defence, I shall not be moved!