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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

the Earth in its trembling might have opened its mouth and swallowed you up alive into its bowels and from thence have gone to Eternal Torments From Pit to Pit From a deep Pit made by the Earthquake in the lower parts thereof into a bottomless-Pit prepared by a just and angry God to take Vengeance on Impenitent and Unconverted sinners to all Eternity Turn sinner turn or this God that can and hath by Earthquakes overturned Towns Cities Mountains will turn thee into Hell and now if thou wilt not fear to continue in a state of sin there thou shalt feel his Wrath and Vengeance for thy sin Vse VI. Evermore live in the fear of God and walk with Circumspection Care and Conscience in all the parts and passages of your Life Why so Because one way or other God may Suddenly call you out of one World into another out of Time into Eternity Death many ways might suddenly surprize you Have not you seen how suddenly an Earthquake may be How many alas how many at that time did the trembling Earth bear and weary of bearing them trembled under them as a Porter under a Load too heavy for him How many did it find in a way of sin Drinking to Excess Swearing without shame or fear and spending their precious time in Sports and Plays and Vanity What if God had commanded those Winds or Fires or Spirits and Vapours if it were from such Natural Causes that made the Earth to quake and your Houses tremble to open the Earth and break out where you at that time were sinning against him and swallowed you up Seriously think in what a woful case and practice it found you and be more wary for time to come You little thought of such a Work of God till it suddenly came Therefore where ever you are be careful to walk so holily and circumspectly as becomes those that know now how suddenly Danger Death and Damnation too else might come upon you Vse VII Let all and every one of us get and evidence our Title to a Kingdom that cannot be shaken You see there is no place in this World that is so stable but it may be shaken even those Houses that you do not call moveable Goods how moveable God can make them When you build on Earth you mind that your Foundation be good and firm and not sandy or unsound and if you built your House upon an earthly Rock tho' when the Wind blows and Rain descends and beat against it yet it stands but if an Earthquake come with a Commission from God to overturn or sink it your best Foundation cannot secure it But there is a City above that hath unshaken Foundations whose Maker and Builder is God Secure an House there not made with hands for that will be eternal There are Mansions above which are perpetual There are no Storms nor Tempests there are no terrible Thunderings and Lightnings there are no Rendings nor Shakings all sedate and calm all at quiet and rest all secure and safe No death or darkness no fears or tremblings no threatning or amazing motions tending to interrupt the Joys and holy Pleasures the Triumphant Songs of the Citizens of that City of the glorious Subjects of that abiding Kingdom Your House on Earth might be destroyed by War by Fire by an Earthquake but there are Mansions above not subject to be destroyed or spoiled by these or any other way Set less by these on Earth that have and may be shaken and more by that Kingdom that never hath nor shall nor can be shaken Heb. 12. 27. This word once more signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken as of things that are made that those things which cannot be shaken may remain 28. Wherefore we receiving a Kingdom which cannot be moved let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear Vse VIII Celebrate the Power of God and his infinite Greatness manifested in this his Work in shaking of the Earth Can Man do it Can Kings and Nobles do it With their mighty Armies can they do that which God by Winds and Vapours can at his pleasure do Job alledgeth this as an evident demonstration of his Power Job 9. 4. He is wise in heart and mighty in strength 5. Which removeth mountains and they know it not which overturneth them in his anger 6. Which shaketh the earth out of her place and the pillars thereof tremble And yet these Earthquakes that are so great the great God doth them with a abundance of ease Psal 104. 32. He looketh on the earth and it trembleth be toucheth the hills and they smoke O tremble before this God who if he casts but an angry look upon the Earth ●t falls a trembling if he touch the Mountains they smoke an angry look with his Eye a displeasing touch with his Finger causeth the one to tremble and the other to smoke What shall sinners then do when he shall lay upon them ●he heavy strokes of his Wrath and Vengeance to all Eternity Doth the Earth quake before him and the very Devils tremble at his angry Presence and shal● Mortal sinful Men be fearless of him The day will come and it is hastning when fear and terror and trembling shall seize upon them and they not be able to shake it off Vse IX God never wanteth ways and means to punish the Disobedience and Rebellion of sinners against him He ca● make the Heavens above to punish the● by with-holding Rain from them o● by pouring out immoderate Shower upon them He can punish them by the Earth beneath And if there be nothing visible to plague and destroy them yet he hath his Armies and his ●●ghty Host under Ground and in the bowels of the Earth which he can Master at his word of Command all stand ready to fight against them which ca● slay them heaps upon heaps and bury them first and after kill them Vse X. Make your Peace with God that shews his Anger by these Earthquakes When he takes such a Rod into h● hand you might see displeasure in his face Let this late Work of God in shaking London and so many places in England and parts beyond the Sea be a warning to them all and oh that all would take this fair warning It is his Mercy that he doth warn before he strikes that with his Rod he doth correct before with his Ax he hews us down Do you think this came by chance and that by chance it did no more harm Did not God that gave Commission to it to shake London put into its Commission make it shake but not to fall And if God did send it is it not a discovery of his Anger Read again Psal 18. 7. Then the earth shook and trembled the foundation of the hills moved and were shaken Why Because he was wroth O labour by Repentance and Faith in Christ to turn away his Wrath lest he overthrow you in his Anger Vse XI What

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