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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60144	Practical reflections on the late earthquakes in Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c., anno 1692 with a particular, historical account of those, and divers other earthquakes / by John Shower.	Shower, John, 1657-1715.	1693 (1693)	Wing S3680; ESTC R31944	73,148	226

have been particular Inundations in several Countries notwithstanding the Oath of God to Noah that there should not be another General Deluge But the Truth of God endures throughout all Generations Mount Sion abideth for ever and cannot be moved and all the Promises of the latter Days shall certainly be accomplished Though I will not be positive as to the Time of those things so as to ground any Assurance concerning their near Accomplishment or the particular Share of this Nation in them Yet as to such prophetick Periods God will break through all Obstructions to accomplish his own Counsel And what the present Shakings and Convulsions of the Nations round about may issue in who can tell For never was any great Good to the Church or any considerable Reformation introduc'd without great Commotions And Literal Earthquakes are often taken notice to have preceded About the Beginning of the Reformation from Popery An. 1569 and 1570 there was one in Ferraria which Country was lately given to the Pope and in Portugal whereby * P. Jovius Lisbon was shaken 1500 Houses ruined all the Temples turn'd into Rubbish the Ships swallowed up in the Ocean the River thrown out of its Channel And the same Earthquake affected the Netherlands and caused great Inundations of the Sea And the like formerly is observable before the Division of the Roman Empire into ten Kingdoms that there were frequent Earthquakes and other Prodigies Before Saladin attempted the Overthrow of Jerusalem and to ravage the Holy Land An. 1172. * Saladinus adjecit animum ad Regni Jerosolymitani eversionem praevio ut solet fieri Terrae motu quo Antiochia Laodicea Alapia Caesarea Emissa Tripolis aliaeque Urbes ferè conciderunt Cluverius great Earthquakes preceded Anno 1300. when the Turkish Empire began to be considerable there † Platina was such an Earthquake at Rome as the like never was before As when the Pagan Empire was to turn Christian in the time of Constantine the Great great Earthquakes also did precede by one whereof thirteen Cities in Campania were overthrown Great Designs of Providence being serv'd and the Changes of States and Countries usher'd in by Earthquakes after the mention of that Terrible One in the Days of Vzziah King of Judah Zech. 14.5 it is added And the Lord my God shall come and all the Saints with thee Or thus And yet O Lord my God come and all the Saints with thee Notwithstanding our Fears and Terrors without this we should not see thy Salvation Dr. * Dr. Jackson 's Works Tom. 2. Part 2. lib. 7. p. 526. Jackson thinks that Earthquakes were Emblems and Types of that Great Change by the Ministry of John the Baptist our Lord's Forerunner in the 15th Year of Tiberius who declared the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand when Publicans and Sinners were advanc'd and the Children of Abraham who gloried in their Birthright were debased when poor Fishermen became Heads of the Tribes of Israel greater Men in the House of God than Moses and Aaron had been while the Successors of Moses the Chief Priests and Doctors of the Law were infatuated and like Salt without Taste or Savour And he reckens the Prophecy of Isaiah chap. 40.14 Every Valley shall be exalted and every Mountain and Hill shall be brought low was fulfilled and answered in its literal Meaning in part at least by that Terrible Earthquake in the 6th or 7th Year of the Emperor Tiberius which overthrew twelve famous Cities in Asia For among other Symptoms of it Tacitus * Sedisse immensos Montes visa in arduo quae plana suerint Tacit. Annal. lib. 2. relates this for one that the Valleys were exalted and mighty Hills brought low Before the Accomplishment of divers Prophecies God gives some Glimpse or Hint by some real Event answerable to the plain literal Sense of the Prophet but immediate Prognosticks of Greater Mysteries approaching He saith farther that the Earthquake which happened in Jewry while Augustus Cesar and Anthony tried their Fortunes in that great and famous Sea-fight at Actium was in part an Accomplishment of the Prophet Haggai his literal meaning chap. 2.6 7. Yet once it is a little while and I will shake the Heavens and the Earth and the Sea and the dry Land And I will shake all Nations c. This shaking of the Nations and of the Earth at that time was a sore Prognostick of that Mystery which the Prophet in the following Verses foretells viz. That the Glory of the latter Temple should be greater than the Glory of the former and that He who was the Desire of all Nations and the Glory of both Temples the Prince of that Peace which God had promised to give in Jerusalem should shortly come For about twelve Years after Herod erects the Temple anew and made it even for External Pomp and Ornament more Beautiful than Solomon's Temple had been that the King of Glory and Prince of Peace for whose Entertainment though unwitting to Herod it was erected might come into it and fill it with Glory And within eighteen Years after Herod began this Work our Lord was presented in it and acknowledged by Simeon to be the Light of the Gentiles or one desired of all Nations and the Glory of his People Israel Great Revolutions and Changes sometimes for the better but more often for the worse have been observ'd to follow Earthquakes as to Natural Civil and Ecclesiastical Affairs Let me mention some Instances Three Cities in * Orosius l. 7. c. 9. Cyprus fell by an Earthquake in the time of Vespasian and Titus followed with a great Pestilence at Rome In Julian's † Sozomen l. 6. c. 2. Theodoret l. 4. c. 4. time there were several great Earthquakes followed with a terrible Famine at Alexandria and in Egypt ‖ See Hottingeri Dissert de Terrae motu Diss 4. Quaest 3. Unde Terrae motus immittantur fintne fortutti purè naturales an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An. D. 342. Constantius made several beneficial Laws for the People and renewed the Privileges granted to Artificers It is observ'd he was constrain'd thereunto by a sense of Publick Calamities for during the War with Persia and about those Times great Mischiefs had proceeded from many and most Terrible * Howel 's Gen. Hist Vol. 2. p. 83 84. Earthquakes St. Jerom in his Cronicon tells us that the Year following the Death of Constans the Younger many Cities of the East fell to the Ground by an horrible Motion of the Earth And some three Years after this that Neocaesarea was overturn'd and all its Inhabitants perished except such as were saved with the Bishop in the Church as also that the Year following this and preceding the building of the Haven in Seleucia Dirrachium was by an Earthquake demolished Rome trembled for three Days and as many Nights and many Towns of Campania were sorely troubled To these Cedrenus adds that in the fourth or fifth Year of Constantius Antioch