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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03606	Gods voice to Christendom, or, Alarum to Europe by the remarkable earthquakes, with the several kinds thereof, two hundred years before the birth of Christ. The causes and kinds, antecedents, and consequents, (pestilence, sword, famine) following thereupon, the nature of meteors, effective, and productive of an earthquake. Some part whereof was delineated by the great and vertuous Robert Boyle Esquyer, in the year 1681, relating to the dreadful comet. The impending judgements and causes of Gods wrath against a sinful people, seasonably and particularly applyed to the sons of Levi. / By a minister of Christ.		1693 (1693)	Wing G964; ESTC R177498	5,881	15

GODS VOICE to CHRISTENDOM OR Alarum to Europe By the Remarkable Earthquakes with the several kinds thereof two hundred years before the Birth of CHRIST The Causes and Kinds Antecedents and Consequents Pestilence Sword Famine following there upon the nature of Meteors Effective and productive of an Earthquake Some part whereof was delineated by the great and Vertuous ROBERT BOYLE Esquyer in the year 1681 relating to the dreadful Comet The Impendent Judgements and Causes of GODS Wrath against a sinful people seasonably and particularly applyed to the Sons of LEVI Habbakuk 1.4.5 The Law of the LORD is slackned the wicked compass about the Righteous wrong judgement proceedeth forth Behold I will work a work in your dayes which ye will not believe tho it were told you By a Minister of CHRIST Edinburgh Re-printed in the Year 1693. TO all Right High and Mighty Princes States and Earls of EVROPE Sacred writ confers on you the name and dignitie of Gods though ye must die like men Plutarch and Senica qualifies the lives of great persons to that of the gods who delight in actions of Benificence the contemplation of which is superior to all satisfaction loving Justice and Mercy which made the Duke of Calabria affix an Bell near his Chamber to be rung by the poorest of his Subjects Kings of Old indefatigably for fear Sacrifysed your fear be Christian for vere magnus Deus Christianorum Nor are you to be Priest riden with a Vain bragg God has spoken so he did to Balaam a beastly Prophet and yet a propheiical Ass The Greeks ascribe the ruine of their Church rise and progress of Mahomet to the division of Christian Kings which made the Goths and Vandels ransact the Romans outdared by the Hunns born of Witches and begot by Divels who found a safe passage unto the confines of Europe by the chase of an Hart which did invite these Clans and Rascalities to flock into Europe whit their wits and Arme their Sperits in one night 100000 by the help of Bladders to swim the Danube and murther so many Christians THO the Efficient Matterial causes of an Earthquak be natural yet the Final is the signification of an Angry GOD moved by the execrable Crimes of a wicked people according to that of David in the 18 Psalm verse 7 The Earth trembled and quaked the foundation of the hills also shook and removed because he was wroth Fear chills our hearts what heart can fear dissemble When steeples stagger and hudge Mountains tremble The Romans in time past commanded by edict that Prayers Supplication should b● made in time of an Earth-quake but the must call upon no God by Name as on other Holy-Dayes for fear they mistook th● GOD into whom it belonged And the mo●● Ancient of the Graecians called Neptune the Mover and Shaker of the Earth supposi●● the Cause proceeds from the Fluctuatio● and Flowings of the Waters up and down● the hollow places under the ground or th● the Shaking proceeded from the downfal of Subterranian Caves and that sometimes whole Mountains sunk in and caused the trembling But properly the cause of a● Earth-quake happeneth when Air and Windy Spirits be shut up within the Caverns of the Earth or have such passage as is too narrow for them they then striving to break their Prisons shake it and make it tremble Now this Imprisonment is caused thus Namly when the Earth which is dry by Nature happeneth to be Watered by continual Rains Then not only the Pores and Caverns thereof are stopped and closed up but the Exhalations and Air within the Earth are increased To which purpose Dr. Fulk in his third Book of Meteors saith The great Caves and Dens of the Earth most needs be full of Air continually for there is no Vacuum in Nature for when by the heat of the Sun the moisture of the Earth is resolved many Exhalations are generated as well within the Earth as without And whereas the places were full before so that they could hold or receave no more except part of that which is in them be let out it most needs follow that in such Countrey where the Earth hath few Pores or else where the Ait stopped with Moisture that there I say these Exhalations striving to get out do either rent the Earth or lift it up that thereby a free passage may be had or else room enough to abid therein as in other kinds so also in this Subterranean fires multiply Neither do we think that the Sun is the only cause of shuting up of the Pores of the ground for then Earth quakes should be in a manner as frequent as dryings after Rain The kinds of Earth-quakes be various some when the whole force of the Wind driveth to one part there being no contrary motion to let or hinder it many Hills and Buildings have been rushed down by that kind of Earth-quake especialiy when the Wind causing it be strong for if it be a feeble Wind it only looseneth or unfasteneth foundations If less-feeble then the Earth without any further hand shakes like one sick of an Ague The second kind of Earth-quake is not so much Lateral as Perpendicular or upright which is when the Earth with so great Violence riseth up by by sinketh down again for after the Wind that causeth the Earth to swell is broke out of Prison the Earth returneth to its old place even as it was before The Third is a Gaping or Rending or Cleaving of the Earth one part being driven so farr from another that whole Towns Cities Hills and Rocks Rivers Seas and the like are swallowed up and never seen again The Fourth is a shaking that causeth a sinking and is farr differing from the former for now the Earth splitteth not but sinketh This being in such places where the surface of the ground be solid yet it hath a salt foundation which being moistned with water by the sorce of the stinking exhalation is turned into water also Thus was the Antlantlck Ocean caused to be an Sea which before was an Island according to the Testimony of Famous Plato 366 years before the Birth of CHRIST The fifth kind of Earth-quake is contrary to the former for as before the ground sinks downso now it 's cast up like as in the second kind already mentioned only this is the difference that now the Earth returneth not into its place again but remaineth a great Mountain yea if such a rising be in the Sea it not only causeth overflowings but produceth likewise many Islands such as was never seen before Thus absolutely have we considered the Case Now relatively of the Antecedents of an Earthquake A great Calmness of the Air mixed with some Cold the reason of which is because the Exhalation which should be blown abroad is within the Earth 2ly The Sun looks very dim certain dayes before there be no Clouds The reason of which is because the Wind which should have purged and dissolyed the