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Modest remarks upon the Bishop of London's letter concerning the late earthquakes. By one of the people called Quakers
Besse, Joseph, 1683?-1757.Date: 1750
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Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child, an unidentified saint and Saint Roch, as protectors against earthquakes. Engraving.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 10635i
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A sermon preached on occasion of the general fast appointed by royal proclamation, on February 6, 1756. By Thomas Ashton, A. M. Rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate.
Ashton, Thomas, 1716-1775.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]
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The proper improvement of divine judgments . A sermon preached before the Mayor and Corporation, at St. Martin's in Oxford, on Friday, February 6. 1756. Being the Day appointed to be kept as a Fast, on Account of the present important Situation of Publick Affairs, and particularly on Occasion of many dreadful Earthquakes, at Lisbon and other Places. By George Fothergill, D.D. Principal of St. Edmund Hall. Publish'd at the Request of the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Assistants of the City.
Fothergill, George, 1705-1760.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]
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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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Hymns occasioned by the earthquake, March 8, 1750
John WesleyDate: Printed in the year MDCCL. [1750]
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Hymns occasioned by the earthquake, March 8, 1750 . To which are added an hymn for the English in America, and another for the year 1756. Part II.
John WesleyDate: 1756
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Hymns occasioned by the earthquake, March 8, 1750 . To which are [sic] added an hymn upon the pouring out of the seventh vial, ... Occasioned by the destruction of Lisbon. Part I.
John WesleyDate: 1756
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Extraordinary displays of the divine majesty & power, are to try men, and impress the fear of God on their hearts, that they sin not Being the substance of two sermons occasioned by a terrible earthquake in New-England, and other parts of northern America; the night immediately following the Sabbath-Day, October 29. 1727. Publickly delivered in Wethersfield, on November the 5th. and 12th. the Sabbaths next succeeding the said earthquake. Something enlarged. By Stephen Mix, M.A. Pastor of a church there. [Three lines of Scripture text].
Mix, Stephen, 1672-1738.Date: 1728
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A discourse concerning earthquakes . Occasioned by the earthquakes which were in New-England, in the province of Massachusetts-Bay, June 16. and in Conecticot-Colony [sic], June 22. 1705. Also, two sermons, shewing, that sin is the greatest evil; and, that to redeem time is the greatest wisdom. By Increase Mather.
Increase MatherDate: 1706
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The terror of the Lord Some account of the earthquake that shook New-England, in the night, between the 29 and the 30 of October, 1727. With a speech, made unto the inhabitants of Boston, who assembled the next morning, for the proper exercises of religion, on so uncommon, and so tremendous an occasion. [One line from II Corinthians].
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1727
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Practical discourses delivered on occasion of the earthquakes in November, 1755 . Wherein is particularly shown, by a variety of arguments, the great importance of turning our feet unto God's testimonies, and of making haste to keep his commandments; together with the reasonableness, the necessity, and great advantage, of a serious consideration of our ways. By Jonathan Mayhew, D.D. Pastor of the West-Church in Boston.
Mayhew, Jonathan, 1720-1766.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]
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A sermon occasioned by the late great earthquake, and the terrors that attended it Prepared for, and (in part) delivered at a fast in Dorchester, Nov. 7. 1727. And transcribed for the press with some enlargement. By John Danforth, M.A. Pastor of the church there. [Fourteen lines of Scripture texts].
Danforth, John, 1660-1730.Date: 1728
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Divine warnings to be received with faith & fear, and improved to excite to all proper methods for our own safety and our families Shew'd in a discourse on Heb. XI. 7. on the publick fast, Dec. 21. 1727. On occasion of the terrible earthquake Oct. 29, 30. & frequently since repeated. To which is added, a discourse on Prov. 2. 1--6. By William Williams, M.A. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Weston. [Six lines of Scripture texts].
Williams, William, 1688-1760.Date: 1728
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The duty of a people to stand in aw [sic] of God, and not sin, when under his terrible judgements A sermon preach'd at the South Meeting House in Boston, the evening after the earthquake, which was in the night between the 29th & 30th of October, 1727. By Joseph Sewall, M.A. Pastor of a Church of Christ in Boston. [Six lines from Isaiah].
Sewall, Joseph, 1688-1769.Date: 1727
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Pious heart-elations being the substance of a sermon in publick on November 29th in consideration of present awful providences amongst us; and on the Sabbath following in the forenoon. December 3d. 1727. From those words of Jeremiah, in Lamentations III. 41. Let us lift u our hearts with our hands unto God in the heavens. By Edward Payson M.A. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Rowley.
Payson, Edward, 1657-1732.Date: 1728
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Modest remarks upon the Bishop of London's letter concerning the late earthquakes. By one of the people called Quakers
Besse, Joseph, 1683?-1757.Date: 1750
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The voice of the Lord, from the deep places of the earth A sermon preach'd on the Thursday-lecture in Boston, in the audience of the General Court, at the opening of the sessions, Nov. 23. 1727. Three weeks after the earthquake. By Thomas Foxcroft. [Three lines from Amos].
Foxcroft, Thomas, 1697-1769.Date: MDCCXXVII. [1727]
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A religious fear of God's tokens, explained and urged in a sermon preached at Ipswich, November 1. 1727. Being a day of humiliation on account of the terrible earthquake, October 29. 1727. By Samuel Wigglesworth, M.A. [Two lines from Psalms].
Wigglesworth, Samuel, 1689-1768.Date: 1728
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A sermon preached at the parish church of St. James, Westminster , on Friday, February 6, 1756. being the day appointed by His Majesty for a general fast, on occasion of the late earthquakes, and the present situation of public affairs. By Charles Moss, D. D. Rector of St. James's, Westminster.
Moss, Charles, 1711-1802.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]
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The day of trouble near, the tokens of it, and a due preparation for it in three sermons on Ezekiel vii. 7. The first of which was preached on the Lord's Day, October 29, 1727. Which was the day immediately preceding the late earthquake: The other two were prepared for, and one of them was preached on a day of public fasting and prayer, Nov. 16. and the other on Lord's Day Nov. 19. To which is added, a sermon on Deuteronomy V. 29. Preached the Wednesday after that awakening providence; and an Appendix, giving some of account of the earthquake, as it was in Hampton, and something remarkable of thunder and lightning in that town, in the year 1727. By Nathaniel Gookin, M.A. Pastor of the Old Church in Hampton, in N. Hampshire.
Gookin, Nathaniel, 1687-1734.Date: MDCCXCVI. [1796]
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Observations moral and religious, on the late terrible night of the earthquake A sermon preached at the Thursday lecture, in Boston. January 1st. 1756. By Thomas Prentice, A.M. a Pastor of the church in Charlestown. [Six lines of Scripture texts].
Prentice, Thomas, 1702-1782.Date: 1756
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Sin testify'd against by heaven and earth . A sermon preached on the Friday after the great and terrible earthquake, which occur'd on the Lord's-Day-evening, between the 29th and the 30th of October, 1727. By John Barnard, Pastor of a church in Andover.
Barnard, John, 1690-1757.Date: 1727 [i.e. 1728]
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Some plain and necessary directions to obtain eternal salvation . In seven sermons from Acts XVI. 30. By John Webb, M.A. Pastor of a church of Christ in Boston.
Webb, John, 1687-1750.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]
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Divine power and and anger displayed in earthquakes A sermon occasioned by the late earthquake, in New-England, November 18. 1755. And preached, the next Lord's-Day, at Point-Shirley. By Mather Byles, A.M. Published at the pressing importunity of the hearers. [Six lines o Scripture texts].
Byles, Mather, 1735-1814.Date: 1755