Practical reflections on the earthquakes that have happened in Europe and America but chiefly in the islands of Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c. With a particular and historical account of them, and divers other earthquakes / by John Shower.

  • John Shower
Date:
1750
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    [ 9« ] greater than, others. Divine patience will not laft always* The Lord is not Jlack (as men count flacknefs) concerning the promife of his coming, hut is long-fuffering to us-ward, not willing that any Jhould perifh, hut that all jhould come to repentance, 2 Pet. iii. 9. But if they turn noty he will whet his fword; he hath bent his how, and made it ready \ he hath prepared alfo inftruments of death, Pfal. vii. 12, 13. Tho’ there are in God ri hes of goodnefs, and for¬ bearance, yet if you defpife the riches of his goodnefs, not knowing that the goodnefs of God leads to repentance, you do but treafure up to your felves wrath againft the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, Rom. ii. 4, 5. It is dreadful to perifh as to a temporal ruin, by wars, and fires, and earthquakes, and fuch calamities: but how much fadder is it to think of defcending into the place of remedilefs torment, under the everlafting curfe oi God, to be tormented with the devil and his angels! It is fad to hear of this, fad to forefee it, to confider it, to think of it; but it will be much fadder to fuffer, and to feel it. And be not deceived, it is not the lels certain, becaufe it is yet future. You are now alive, and do not fee the grave digged for you, and yet you mull die : and as certainly do I know from the word of God, who cannot lie, That except you repent, you mufi perifh, and that for ever. THE END.