Disasters - Religious aspects

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The voice of God in a tempest A sermon preached in the time of the storm; wherein many and heavy and unknown losses were suffered at Boston, (and parts adjacent,) Febr. 24. 1722-3. By one of the ministers in Boston. [One line from Micah].
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: MDCCXXIII. [1723]
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The necessity of a constant readiness for death A discourse, preached at Hartford North-Meeting-House, May 25th, 1766. Occasioned by that alarming providence, the sudden demolition of the school-house, by gun-powder; whereby about thirty persons were wounded, six of who are since dead. By the Reverend John Devotion, A.M. of Say-Brook; providentially present. [Five lines of quotations].
Devotion, John, 1730-1802.Date: [1766]
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The signs of the times: or Some expositions and remarks on sundry texts of Scripture, relative to the remarkable phenomenon, or dark-day, which appeared in New-England on the nineteenth of May, 1780 by which it appears that New-England is the place that the Prophet Joel calls Zion and Jerusalem. By Samuel Gatchel, deacon of the Second Congregational Church in Marblehead.
Gatchel, Samuel.Date: [1781]
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Compassions called for An essay of profitable reflections on miserable spectacles. To which is added, A faithful relation of some late, but strange occurrences that call for an awful and useful consideration. Especially distresses and deliverances, of a company lately shipwreck'd on a desolate rock, on the coast of New-England. [Three lines of Scripture texts].
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1711
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A discourse occasioned by the late distressing storm which began Feb. 20th. 1716,17 As it was deliver'd March 3d. 1716,/7. By Eliphalet Adams, A.M. Pastor of the Church in New London. [Two lines from Psalms].
Adams, Eliphalet, 1677-1753.Date: 1717