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    Some rude & indigested thoughts on the terrible majesty of God in the works of nature particularly in the phaenomena of earthquakes: occasioned by that memorable earthquake Octob. 29th. 1727. Wherein earthquakes in their causes, kinds, and astonishing effects, are briefly hinted, enumerated and described. [Two lines from Newton].

    | Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]
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    Poems. The conflagration , applied to that grand period or catastrophe of our world, when the face of nature is to be changed by a deluge of fire, as formerly it was by that of water. The God of tempest and earthquake.

    Byles, Mather, 1707-1788. | Date: [1755]

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