A Discourse on Earthquakes (Electronic book text)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3 ei textit{to a Perfon who was unqueftionably of eminent piety andparts, who textit{by a too eager curiofity, was carried to make fome trial of that_a y, which tended not only to be his fnare, but to moft textit{tragick effeEis in his own perfonal lot: Though I forbear to ipeak more particularly herein, only textit{that God is a jealous God, who will not pafs fome evils, without a fevere remark thereon. textit{An additional Enquiry on thatfingular conduct of Providence, which is about the Saints here and upon fome of the great eft depths thereof, for giving fur- textit{, ther Light to the foregoing Difcourfe on that Sub- ject. I Hope there may be many this day on the Earth, who are indeed on fo defirable a textit{fcent, and to whom this will be textit{zfubject of great weight, to know the textit{way of the Lord, and outgoings of his Providence towards them, amidft the various changes of their life, and in the more eminent textit{periods and Jlations thereof: But this proves in another manner, an textit{ex- ercifing fubjeff in an hour of great temptation, to carry the ftrength of a Chriftian's Soul thereon, and to penetrate on fuch reafons and defigns, that the Majefly of God hath in more ftrange and extraordinary Providences, which may for a time, put them in an amaze when darknefs does overfhadow the fame textit{; fince for Men thus to textit{bcjkilled and difcerning in bis ways, is furely one of the higheft attainments of fpiritual Wifdom within time. There are two textit{myfteries of Divine truth to be matter of deep K 2 thoughtsthoughts and reflection, the textit{one is a Chriftian's ecu- duEt and Pa/age through time, the other is his way and a/cent to that blejftd World which is above, at death; which is by the immediate textit{Miniftry of the textit{dngels: But it is furely the textit{fir...