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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36316	Earthquakes explained and practically improved occasioned by the late earthquake on Sept. 8, 1692 in London, many other parts in England, and beyond sea / by Thomas Doolittle ...	Doolittle, Thomas, 1632?-1707.	1693 (1693)	Wing D1883; ESTC R12441	54,165	169

and make ready for it and to allay the fears thereof but in a moment to be in danger of Death the fears are more raging and predominant and less help against them Fear without a remedy must be great fear 2. The suddenness of Death and the apprehended nearness of it The danger did not only seize them on a sudden but threatens to remove them suddenly What! die so soon what within a minute or two will Death stay no longer can it not a minute more be delayed what so soon step into Eternity so suddenly must I hasten into another everlasting World I never did so suddenly remove from one House to another and must I now so suddenly remove from one World into another from a temporal into an eternal World and yet not ready to leave this nor to go into that It is hard to imagine the power and strength of fear that must invade and fill them in such distress 3. The unavoidableness of Death apprehended in an overthrowing Earthquake augments their fears or torments them with despair of Life If a Man be sick the means he useth keeps up his hope of Life and the more he hopes he shall live the less are his fears of Death But in a desolating Earthquake what hopes can Men have whither can they in a minute go to escape the ruine what present Friend can help them when they and their Friends are in the same equal danger when one must not die without the other If they stay within doors they apprehend they may be killed with the fall of their Houses if they run out they know not but they may be destroyed with the downfal of their Neighbours Will they hasten into the open Fields what in a minute alas they have not time allowed for such an escape or if they had there the Earth in an Earthquake might swallow them up No where safe every where in great fear 4 Apprehensions of sudden unavoidable Death and this when they are in health and strong aggravates their case and augments their fears What! am I well and yet must die strong in health and yet now must die hath Death forgot its old way of sending Harbingers before it before it came it self did it use to send its Serjeants to arrest before it cast Men into the Prison of the Grave and must I be haled away without Summons Some have been weaned from the love of Life and made weary of it by long and languishing Sickness by wracking and tormenting Pains and must I in my Youth or in middle Age under no pain with my strength firm yield to Death All this doth fill with greater fear 5. This unusual way of dying makes it the more terrible Others in other cases first die and then are buried first expire and then are carried to their Graves but in an Earthquake must I be buried alive first buried and then die others are carried from their house when dead unto the grave and must mine own house be my grave and that while I do live Behold the Earth quakes under me my House trembles over me Oh! what if my trembling House should fall and I in it what if the Earth should sink under me what if this quaking Earth should open its mouth and eat me up alive what if it should cleave asunder as in its shaking it hath sometimes done and swallow me up as it hath done thousands of others when others die another way doth this loving Mother lay their dead Bodies in her bosom must I die this way and go down alive into her bowels did I live in my Mothers womb before I was born and must I live awhile in this common Mothers bowels after I am therein buried This being not the common death of all Men makes it more terrible to those that apprehend in an Earthquake they must not die as others do All laid together shews that Earthquakes cause great consternation of mind perplexing fretting fears which is the first Effect thereof Secondly Another Effect of Earthquakes is speedy and precipitant flying if possibly Men might hasten from the danger thereof Tho' they leave their Gods behind them in their Houses they will attempt to fly to save themselves Numb 16. 32. The Earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up and their houses and all the men that appertained to Korah and all their goods Verse 34. And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them for they said lest the Earth swallow us up also Zach. 14 ●5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the Mountains yea ye shall flee like as ye fled from before the Earthquake in the days of Uzziah King of Judah These were particular Earthquakes and some by flight escaped from them but when it shall be more general or fall out in the place where you dwell and some miles about you when it comes in a minute whither will you flee or to what place will you hasten or in so little time how will you get thither however Men shall endeavour to flie tho' it should be in vain when the Earth so moves they cannot they will not stand still to be devoured and swallawed up if by flight they might escape which they will try tho' they be overtaken with it Overtaken alas in such a Judgment you may sooner run into it than run from it you may think to leave the danger behind you and still it is before you you running away from it may run to meet it But the Danger is so dreadful the Death so formidable the Misery so great by Earthquakes that Men will flee from them if they can that they might not perish in them But better repent reform and turn from sin to God to prevent them than to continue in the sins that do procure them for when they come you will find it hard to flee from them Thirdly Another Effect is the cleaving asunder of the Earth and devouring and swallowing up many Persons in a short time In other Judgments People die one after another in this by multitudes When Death by sickness puts a period to Life each one hath his own Grave in this opening the Earth by Earthquakes one great Grave is made for many Numb 16. 31 32 33. Fourthly Another Effect is the subversion of Houses Towns and Cities with the destruction of their Inhabitants together History abounds with many sad and grievous Examples hereof When Trajan was at Antioch there hapned a most terrible Earthquake that destroyed many Cities and People which extended it self very far Great and terrible Lightnings were before it then great and unusual storms of Winds then arising a great and sudden Noise the Sea wrought the Waves swelled the Earth was shaken Buildings trembled some did burst asunder and others first lifted up fell down A great and horrible Noise was heard Walls by contrary motions driven sometimes this way sometimes that were broken and fell the Sea with boisterous storms did mount and toss to and

gracious Lord strike the hearts of Tyrants with the terrour of this thy Work that they may know that they are but Men and that tho● art that Sampson that for their mocking and spighting of thee and thy Word canst shake the Pillars of their Palaces and throw them upon the furious Philistines heads Turn thy Wrath O Lord fro● thy Children that call upon thy Name to the Conversion or Confusion of thine Enemies that defie and ab●or thy Name and deface thy Glory Thou hast knocked long at their Doors but they will not open to let thee in burst open therefore the brazen Gates of their stony hearts thou that art able of stones to raise up Children to Abraham and finally s● touch our hearts with the finger of thy Grace that we may deeply muse upon our sinful Lives to amend the● and call for thy Mercy to forgive and pardon them through Christ our Lord who liveth with thee and the Holy Ghost three Persons and one Eternal God to whom be all Dominion and Glory with Praise and Thanksgiving for ever and ever Amen Do not you see old Mercies to England in time of Judgment by that Earth●uake then as fresh Mercy in the like Judgment mixt in this so lately nay this more mild then that when by that two were killed and not one by this that yet I hear of And should not the terrour of the Lord awaken us as you see it did others in the like case heretofore Should not every House that hath been shaken be fill'd with Crys Calls and fervent Prayers unto God to turn away his Wrath from us that else after this Earthquake might come upon us Might not we ●ear as they then did and pray every night before we go to Bed as they were appointed and commanded by Authority to do should not the Judgment and the Mercy in it kindly work upon us or shall we be more secure because God in Judgment is so merciful Shall we despise the Riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth us to repentance or shall we after our hardness and impenitent hearts treasure up unto our selves wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God will not he render to every man according to his deeds read and answer Rom. 2. 4 5 6. That I may conclude I shall recommend to the Citizens of London a serious consideration of three years amongst others exceeding remarkable always to be remembred and improved by all that have seen them all and by those that have been born since the first and second of them but have been told by others of God's dealing with this City then 1. Forget not the Dying year in this City in 1665. when God did visit it with the Plague Have you forgot have you not heard how Death raged then how it rode triumphant like a mighty Conquerour that so many durst not meet it in the Streets as were sufficient to keep the Grass from growing in Cheapside did it not slay heaps upon heaps that the living were put to day-labour to bury their dead so many thousand in a week cut off cut down and changed time for eternity ready or unready must away Death was then in such haste in so short time to slay so many that if it did find unprepared persons it did not it could not be prevailed with by sighs and sobs by tears and groans to stay till some made themselves ready for another world You that lived Then and Now have cause to remember Gods Judgment to others especially if unconverted that died and his Mercy to you that live now 2. Forget not that dreadful burning year 1666. when the tops of London's highest Houses were brought down to fill their Cellars when the devouring Flames marched without controul from Street to Street drinking up the Water cast upon them and scorning all oppositions that could for some days be made against them till God that set bounds to the proud Waves of the Sea set limits to the insulting Flames saying Hitherto shall ye go and no further Let the sight of your new Buildings put you in mind your old were burnt 3. The trembling year 1692. when your Houses by an Earthquake trembled as if they would fall and you in them then trembled for fear they should fall I have heard there were tremblings of the Earth in Jamaica some years more then once before the great sit of Convulsion came by which it was destroyed Let us take warning by one In the year 65 God by one Judgment swept away the Inhabitants and left their Houses in 66 he destroyed your Houses and preserved your Persons in 92 by an Earthquake he threatned both your Dwellings and your Persons but in mercy he spared both Oh give praise unto the Lord that he spared you and your Houses in this Earthquake and pray that he would shake them so no more FINIS Books printed for John Salusbury in Cornhill THE certainty of The Worlds of Spirits fully evinced by unquestionable Histories of Apparitions and Witchcrafts Operations Voices c. Proving the Immortality of Souls the Malice and Miseries of the Devils and the Damned and the Blessedness of the Justified The End of Doctrinal Controversies which have lately troubled the Churches by reconciling Explication without much Disputing Both by Mr. Richard Baxter The Protestant Religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Divine Mr. Richard Baxter Whereunto is added by way of an Epistle some Account of the Learned Author never before published By Mr. Matth. Sylvester and Mr. Daniel Williams The Harmony of the Divine Attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of Man's Redemption by the Lord Jesus Christ By William Bates D. D. The Changeabless of this World with respect to Nations Families and particular Persons with a practical Application thereof to the various conditions of this Mortal Life By Timothy Rogers M. A. The Christian Lover or a Discourse opening the Nature of Participation with and Demonstrating the Necessity of Purification by Christ By T. Cruse The Duty and Blessing of a Tender Conscience plainly stated and earnestly recommended to all that regard acceptance with God and the Prosperity of their Souls By the same Author Five Sermons on various Occasions By the same Author The Mirrour of Divine Love unvail'd in a Paraphrase on the High and Mysterious Song of Solomon By Robert Plemming V. D. M. The Mourners Memorial in two Sermons on the Death of the truly 〈◊〉 Mrs. Susannah Some With some 〈◊〉 count of her Life and Death By 〈◊〉 Wright and Robert Fleming V. D. M. A new Examination of the Acciden● and Grammar in English and Latin wherein all the Rules of Properiquae ●●●ribus Quae Genus As in presenti Si●t 〈◊〉 and Praesodia are made plain and 〈◊〉 that the meanest Capacity may speed 〈◊〉 learn the Latin Tongue The Christian's Converse with God 〈◊〉 the Insufficiency and Uncertainty Human Friendship and the Improveme●● of Solitude in Converse with God wit● some of the Author's Breathings a●● him By Richard Baxter Recommend●● to the Readers serious Thoughts wh● at the House of Mourning and Reti●● ment By Mr. Matth Sylvester A Rational Defence of Nonconform●●ty wherein the practice of Nonconfo●mists in vindicated from the Charge Dr. Stilling fleet Bp●of Worcester Also 〈◊〉 Case of the present Separation truly u●ted and the way to Union amongst Pr●●testants pointed at by Gilbert Rule D. D.