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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

should therefore arm our selves against that Blow that can neither be avoided or foreseen And it is not the forswearing those Places that we find infested with Earthquakes that will do our business for there is no Place that can be warranted against them What if the Earth be not yet moved It is still movable for the whole Body of it lies under the same Law and expos'd to Danger only some part at one time and some at another As it is in Great Cities where all the Houses are subject to Ruin tho they do not all fall together So in the Body of the Earth now this Part fails and then that Tyre was formerly subject to Earthquakes In Asia twelve Cities were swallowed up in a Night Achaid and Macedonia have had their turns and now Campagnia The Fate goes round and strikes at last where it hath a great while passed by It falls out oftner 't is true in some Places than in others But no Place is totally free and exempt And it is not only Men but Cities Coasts nay the Shores and the very Sea it self that suffer under the Dominion of Fate And yet we are so vain as to promise our selves some sort of Assurance in the Goods of Fortune never considering that the very Ground we stand upon is unstable And it is not the Frailty of this or that Place but the Quality of every Spot of it for not one Inch of it is so compacted as not to admit many Causes of its Resolution And tho the Bulk of the Earth remain entire the Parts of it may yet be broken Thus the Pagan Philosophers prepared themselves and others for these Accidents as for Disorders that were Inevitable and did not trouble themselves with the Thought of Divine Justice which chastiseth Men by these dreadful Punishments But the Common People whose Opinions were not so corrupted reverenc'd the Anger of Heaven in these Calamities and seeking for Safety in Superstition endeavour'd to appease the Evil Spirits by Sacrifice and so provoked the Indignation of God the more Christians who are instructed in a better School own these Disasters as the Punishment of Sin And of all the Animadversions that Divine Justice gives Men there is none more Horrid or less Evitable than this of * Senault of the Corruption of Nature by Sin Treat 6th Disc 7th Earthquakes For what Assurance can we hope for here below if the Earth quake under our Feet Where can we think to escape Danger if the most solid thing of all the World do shake if that which sustains all other Things about us threaten us with sinking under our Feet What Sanctuary shall we find to defend us from an Evil that doth encompass us round And whither can we withdraw if the Gulphs which open themselves shut up our Passages on all sides With what Horror are Men struck when they hear the Earth groan when her Trembling succeeds her Complaints when Houses are loosned from their Foundations when the Roofs fall upon their Heads and the Pavement sinks under their Feet What Hope is there to be had in so General a Disorder when Fear cannot be fenc'd by Flight In other Cases there is some Outlet whereby to escape an Evil An Enemy is beaten from the Bulwark he had possess'd himself of Earthworks are opposed to the thundring Canon Winds which raise Tempests deliver us from 'em and after having a long time toss'd us to and fro they cast us on the Shore Houses serve us for Sanctuaries against the Injuries of the Air and Weather If a Man will resign his Goods to the Fire he may secure his Person Thunder hurts not those who hide themselves in Caverns When the Pestilence infects whole Cities we may shun the Contagion by going into the Country and if it dispeople Towns it doth not throw down the Houses But an Earthquake incloseth what it overthrows and wages War not with some few Houses only but whole Provinces and sometimes leaves nothing behind it to inform Posterity of its Outrages more insolent than Fire which spares Rocks more greedy than the Sea which vomits up Shipwracks more cruel than the Conqueror who spares Walls it swallows and devours whatsoever it overturns The Sea is subject to its Empire and Mariners confess that those Storms are most dangerous which are occasioned by Earthquakes This Misfortune is common to all Kingdoms since Man became Criminal all Parts of the Earth are become moveable and Stedfastness must no longer be look'd for in the World since Innocency is banish'd thence by Injustice This Disorder is the Punishment of our Sin and Reason as well as Faith doth sufficiently assure us that the Universe would never have been agitated with these furious Accidents during the State of Original Righteousness Wherefore should God's Anger have armed the Elements against his faithful and obedient Subjects Wherefore should he have overthrown all his Works to destroy Innocent Men Why should it have overwhelm'd the Inhabitants of the Earth with the Ruines thereof if they had not been sinful Why should it have buried those in the Bowels of the Earth who were not to die Let us then conclude that Earthquakes are the Effects of Sin Such sudden Instances of Divine Judgment are threatned in Scripture as some of the most terrible and therefore the highest Severity is express'd by such unexpected and sudden Strokes They are set forth sometimes by the Breach of a Wall that catcheth a Man ' ere he be aware and crusheth him in pieces Isa 30.12 13. Sometimes resembled to a Whirlwind that comes suddenly and carries all before it And therefore God threatens that obstinate and incurable Sinners shall be destroyed at once or shall be suddenly destroyed and that without Remedy Prov. 29.1 CHAP. II. Such Instances of Divine Severity should teach us to reverence and adore the Divine Power and Providence should awaken us to Repentance excite most earnest Prayer occasion Thankfulness for our Preservation hitherto and call upon us to trust in God as our only Refuge and to secure his Favour LET us further consider that under such Appearances of God it becomes us to be thus affected as matter of Duty If we have any becoming Apprehensions of the Divine Power and the Terrors of his Wrath If we have any Concern at his Displeasure and the Manifestations of it If we have any thing of that Tenderness of Spirit that Heart of Flesh which is the great Blessing of the New Covenant we ought to evidence it on such Occasions by sutable Affections in order to the Improvement of these Providences for our own Advantage For instance 1. To reverence the Divine Power and Providence to confirm our Minds in the Belief of it That verily there is a God that judgeth in the Earth That we may see and know and understand together that the Hand of the Lord has done this and the Holy One of Israel hath created it That God hath not forsaken the Earth but makes himself