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"rial Caufes. For nothing fure, but an electrical "Shock, and that from a divine Hand, could have "been fo well adjusted, as twice, nay four Times,, "to fhake every House in London, and not throw 66 one down."

Pag. 41, 42, 43. “The greater the Terror [fays "Dr. Stukeley] accompanying Earthquakes, the 66 greater a Bleffing is our Deliverance from the "Danger of it! What can equal God's Power " and Judgment, but his Mercy? Confider the "wonderful Confequence, that the whole City of "London fhould fo fenfibly be fhaken, and yet no "one inhabited Houfe to fall, nor one Perfon "kill'd. Amazing Inftance of Power and Good"nefs in our Prefervation! And this not only 66 once, but the fecond Time alfo, though evi"dently stronger was the Concuffion; fo ftrong, "that almost every Person was thoroughly per"fuaded, that fome Part, at leaft, of their Houses "was falling down.

"Can we help admiring, that Judgment should "be fo tempered with Mercy! Do we look only "at the fecond Caufes with our Unbelievers, and

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fport away the Divine Presence, as if it was an "ordinary Occurrence of every Day? They want "to fee a Miracle. Nought can affect them but "a direct fupernatural Agency.

"I anfwer, behold a visible and notorious Mi"racle, plainly obvious, and before all their Senses. "For can there be a greater Miracle? Can any "Thing be more directly the Finger of God than "this, which we ourselves faw with our Eyes, that " befell the whole City of London?

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"We know the Nature of the building of Lon"don Houses, which fometimes fall of themselves, "without fhaking. Wonderful then is it to be thought, and a Miracle indeed, that every House in this vaft City fhould be twice agitated, and "rocked to and fro, and not one fall, nor one Per"fon receive any Damage.

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"In vain will the Philofophers feek for a Solu"tion of this Problem in natural Caufes only. By "their chymical Experiments they make fome "little mimic Imitations of Tremors and Fumes, "and Explosions; fo by Gun-powder we ape the regal Voice of Thunder. But where is the dif

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parates between the vengeful and kind? Thefe "fecond Caufes act according to their material Nature, like the roaring Waves of the Ocean, "that flow in, and overwhelm every Thing where "a Breach is made. They can observe no Dif"tinction between the Lands of a righteous Man " and of a Sinner; they cannot stop at the Breach, "and gather themselves on a Heap, and not enter “in at all, as the Waters of Jordan did.

"But in the Cafe before us, the Hand of the "Lord that ftayed the flowing of the Waters, that "quelled the raging of the Sea, and its proud "Waves, fets Bounds to the trembling of the "Earth. Hither fhall its Vibrations go, and no "further. When, alas! if it went but one Inch "further (in Comparison) a total Ruin must una"voidably follow,

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"Confider this Particular, when applied to all "the Buildings in this immenfe City, and wonder, "and adore that almighty Providence, which over"looked us, and prefcribed the Limits, fo narrow,

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fo precife, which faved us from univerfal Havock!” And again, Page 45. "We obferved before a plain and notorious Proof of God's Hand in "these Judgments, that he could move a whole City, without throwing down a Houfe. And this is "most affuredly a fecond Proof that he vifits only "great Cities with thefe Judgments. And we "must conclude this to be as ftrong an Argument "of a divine Interpofition in thefe Affairs, as any mathematical Demonftration."

However, I take Leave to add this myself, that tho' Earthquakes chiefly affect very great and very wicked Cities,as the Doctor obferves, yet are not either those Earthquakes, or God's providential Interpofition, wholly confined to them; as it is plain in the 8 or 9 late Earthquakes in England, where the Concuffions have extended fometimes as far as thofe in London, and yet hardly thrown down a single House, or killed a fingle Perfon all this Time. Bleffed be the Name of the Lord! May the Confideration of this his amazing Goodness to us lead us to a true Repentance !

I also very much suspect, that what Dr. Stukeley feverely intimates, Pages 37, 38, is too likely to prove true, with refpect to the great ones and the carelefs Multitude, His remarkable Words are thefe :

"It is true, an Earthquake caufes an univerfal “Dread among all Sorts of People; even the Phi

lofopher, immerfed in Speculation of fecond "Caufes, quakes, as well as the Pious, whofe Fear "proceeds from folid Piety, a due Sense of the "Anger of the Almighty Being. We faw the late "Earthquakes affrighted every one; but as to the "Generality, it was but for a Moment. When "they found themselves fafe and alive, thoughtless they went to their Bufinefs, or their Diverfion "and this not only the firft, but the fecond Time.

And I am apprehenfive, were another and another "to come, they would only be lefs regarded than "the preceding." So far Dr. Stukeley. Το which I fhall only add, that what he says, I doubt, will be true; but this only till that great Earthquake, which I expect ere long at London. See Pag. 42, 43, 135, 136, 137, which will quite alter the Scene; for after the Slaughter of the 7000 Men of Name or Note, we are affured there, the Remnant will be affrighted, and give Glory to the God of Heaven. Pag. 43, 138.

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may be neceffary to take fome Notice here of the notorious and barbarous Breach of another Law of God, given by Mofes to the Jews, but obliging us Chriftians also, which foon follows the ten Commandments, Exod. xxi. 16. He that ftealeth a Man, and felleth him, or if he be found in his Hand, be fball furely be put to Death. So is our Verfion from the Hebrew. The Septuagint Verfion is thus Whosoever ftealeth any one of the Children of Ifrael,

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and overcometh, and felleth him, and he be found with him, be fhall furely die. Deut. xxiv. 7. If a Man be found stealing any of his Brethren of the Children of Ifrael, and maketh Merchandize of him, or felleth bim, then that Thief fhall die, and thou fhalt put Evil away from among you. So is our Verfion from the Hebrew. The Septuagint Verfion

is thus: If a Man be found ftealing a Soul of his Brethren, the Children of Ifrael, and tyrannizeth over him, and felleth him, that Thief fhall die, and thou fhalt put the Evil away froin among you. How near to this horrible Crime, to which Death is here peremptorily denounced, is the buying and felling our Black Slaves, or tyrannizing over them when they are fold, I fhall not pofitively determine; but think it highly fit to be confidered by thofe Merchants that are therein concerned, left this also prove to be another of those heinous Crimes for which the Divine Vengeance is now justly to be feared. See Horeb Covenant Reviv'd throughout: Where more fuch Laws that oblige Chriftians, but broken by them, are fet down.

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The eighth and ninth of thofe Judgments belonging to thefe Times, I reckon those Imitations of the two most univerfal of all the Changes that have been, or are to be made, upon our Earth; I mean, the general Deluge, and final Conflagration. These are both mentioned by the Apostle Peter, in his Second Epiftle, Chapter iii. Verses 3, 4, 5, 6,

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