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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38593	Geologia Norvegica, or, A brief instructive remembrancer concerning that very great and spacious earthquake, which hapned [sic] almost quite through the south parts of Norvvay upon the 24th day of April, in the year 1657 also physical, historical, and theological grounds and reasons concerning the causes and significations of earthquakes / written in the Danish tongue by Michael Peterson Escholt ... ; and Englished by Daniel Collins.; Geologia Norvegica. English	Escholt, Michel Pedersøn, d. 1666.; Collins, Daniel, 17th cent.	1663 (1663)	Wing E3252; ESTC R15886	31,029	106

one of King Davids chief Musitians Psal 77. 16 and 18. The waters saw thee O God the waters saw thee and were afraid c. the voice of thy Thunder was in the Heavens thy Lightning lightned the world the earth trembled and shook And that none should doubt that this hapned at the very same time when the children of Israel came out of Egypt Asaph concludeth the aforesaid Psalm with these words in the last verse Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron Moreover when God would in an especial manner appear unto that precious man of God the Prophet Elias upon mount Horeb and there verbally instruct him what he in the Lords behalf should do in several Kingdoms Then there hapned a great Earthquake before but the Lord was not in the Earthquake as we may read in 1 Kin. 19. 11. It is also Recorded by the Prophet Amos that there hapned in Jewry a great Earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel and Amos was called by God two years before the said Earthquake from amongst the Heardsmen of Tekoa to preach and reprove sharply the great and manifold fins which did then abound in all the Countreys thereabouts as we may read in the first chapter of Amos ver 2. c. and in the following Chapters And that this same Earthquake was no small one we may sufficiently understand by that prophetical Doctrine which the Prophet Zachary preached unto his Auditors certain hundreds of years after when he putteth the remnant of the people of Israel that were returned home from their 70 years Babylonish captivity in mind and did then cause them plainly to understand that the said Earthquake was a great terrible and dreadful one for the Prophet writes thus Zac. 14. 5. ye shall flee like as ye fled from before the Earthquake in the days of Uzziah King of Judah As for the new Testament therein do the Holy Evangelists make mention concerning several Earthquakes that hapned in those times The Evangelist St. Matthew in chap. 27. 51. and forward writes that at the time of the death of Jesus Christ the vail of the Temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom and the earth did quake and the rocks rent and the graves opened So that the Centurion and those that were with him watching Jesus when they saw the Earthquake and those things that were done feared greatly By this Earthquake doubtlesse the Lord for his part did show his fierce wrath against those that had dealt so unmercifully with his only beloved son and on the other side Christ himself did also show his enemies how easily he could have caused the earth in that Earthquake to have opened under them and suffered them altogether like the seditious Korah Dathan and Abiram in former time with all their retinue wives and children to have sunk down alive into Hell Numb 16. But our most Gracious and patient Saviour was not come then to destroy but to redeem and deliver mankind from the wrath and righteous judgements of God Luk 9. 56. And therefore not one Jew of the enemies of Christ perished in this Earthquake but the long suffering of God did hereby yet seek to draw them to repentance Rom. 2. 4. Also at the time of our Lord Jesus Christ his Resurrection there hapned a great Earthquake again concerning which the above named Evangelist St. Matthew writeth thus chap. 28. 2 4. Behold there was a great Earthquake c. and the keepers did shake and became as dead men Concerning this Earthquake Divines a●e of several opinions for some think that this Earthquake hapned sub descensu Christi ad inferos when Christ descended into Hell or to the lowermost or innermost parts of the earth as St. Paul writeth Eph 4. 9. And then presently did a mighty great conflict begin between the Prince of darkness the Devil on the one side that would have preserved his Pallace and kept what he had in peace Luk 11. 21. And the Prince of life and Lord of Glory the Lord Jesus Christ on the other side that is called a stronger then he that came upon him to overcome him Luk 11. 22. And by this great and powerful conflict Christ redeemed mankind and took away the power from him that had the power over death that is the Devil and delivered them who through fear of death were all there life time subject to bondage Heb. 2. 14. 15. wherein the Devil with all the powers of Hell strived mightily to oppose him but Christ gets the victory at last having spoiled the principalities and powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them in it as St. Paul writes Collos 2. 15. and that according to his own prophesie by the Prophet Hosea chap. 13. 14. where he in time of old speaketh thus O death I will be thy plagues O grave I will be thy destruction Now at such a mighty contest hapning in hell or the innermost parts of the earth could not the earth contein it self but was forced thereby to shake tremble and quake so that the Evangelist might well say Lo there was a great Earthquake Concerning this Luther writes thus Annotante D. Johanne Gerhardo Homil. Sacr. parte 2. super Feria pasch 1 Concione 3. in hoc terrae motu Christus ad inferos descendit Satanam ligavit captivam duxit captivitatem infernum destruxit claves abstulit morti praedam eripuit c. That is in this Earthquake Christ descended into Hell bound Satan took captivity captive spoyled hell and carried away the keys and took away the prey of death from him Other Divines especially those that are preachers are of this opinion that this Earthquake hapned at the time of Christs Resurrection which was upon Easter-day in the morning thereby shewing that as the earth at the time of Christs death did quake and tremble in compassion of the bitter pain and innocent death of its Lord and Creator so by a particular great Earthquake she did now rejoyce again at his Resurrection and did leap and dance for joy of the victory and conquest obtained by Jesus Christ and as it were with both hands to speak after the fashion of men delivered her Lord and Creator from her which now she had inclosed in her to the third day Each of these Divines opinions do I allow to be worthy and Godly forasmuch as neither of them do in the least oppose the Holy Scriptures But besides this the Evangelist St. Luke Recordeth that when Peter had preached that excellent Sermon in Jerusalem in the great festival of Whitsontide concerning the death of Christ on the one side and his glorious and victorious Resurrection from the dead on the other and then by the same Sermon converted about 5000 men to the faith and confession of Christ Act. 4. 4. After the same Sermon with the unanimous and earnest prayers supplications and