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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 53 ] degree of their acting, efpecially fuch rare and unufual inftances as Earthquakes. All fecond caufes in their feveral motions need the continuation of the divine, power and influence, in order to their operations, as well as their fubfiftence. God ufes all creatures to be the inflruments of his will, and to ferve his pur- pofes. Natural agents, and moral, are all under his direction. Fire and hail, /now and vapour, and ft or my wind fulfil his word, Pfal. cxlviii. 8. Blading and mil¬ dew, drought and barrennefs, an infectious air, peftk lential difeafes, &c; however brought about by natural caufes, are under divine government, and aCt by virtue of his influence. He gives order to the deftroying an¬ gel in a peftilence, 2 Sam. xxiv. 16. He faith to the fword, Go through the land, Ezek. xiv. 1 y. Now though I will not fay, that always thefe things are prefages of further calamity and judgment to a par¬ ticular people; yet, becaufe they have ufually been fol¬ lowed by fome fuch, and we have many other moral prognodications of divine difpleafure, it fhould call us to a humble confideration of the grounds of our fear, as to national calamities. And there are feveral things (fome whereof are taken notice of by 3 others) that may here very fitly be mentioned •, as, 1. That we. have a multitude of fuch figns, as have been generally edeemed the forerunners of public cala¬ mity. It is not the late Earthquake alone, but in con¬ junction with many other things, that is the ground of our fear. And the more figns we have, and the more they are defpifed, the louder is their voice, to thofe that will confider them.' We had figns in the heavens in 1681. We have had Earthquakes of late in divers places *, and God has lately taken peace from the earth, as to this part of the world, by engaging fo great a part of Europe in bloody wars: all which has the ap¬ pearance of fome great things to be ufhered in. I durd y Mr. Fleming's difeourfe of Earthquakes, 8m fome of \vhofe remarks I here repeat. not](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30355588_0068.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
