A chronological and historical account of the most memorable earthquakes that have happened in the world, from the beginning of the Christian Period. To the present year 1750 : With an appendix, containing a distinct series of those that have been felt in England ... / By a gentleman of the University of Cambridge [i.e. Z. Grey].

  • Grey, Zachary, 1688-1766.
Date:
1750
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Credit: A chronological and historical account of the most memorable earthquakes that have happened in the world, from the beginning of the Christian Period. To the present year 1750 : With an appendix, containing a distinct series of those that have been felt in England ... / By a gentleman of the University of Cambridge [i.e. Z. Grey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vifit us in this manner for the fpace of 85 years, (when in the City of London no lefs than Sixty eight Thoufand five Hundred and ninety fix died in little more than half a year;) Yet why fhould not we take the late Earthquakes, and pre- fent Murrain, as forerunners of fomething of much more direful Confequence? And if this fhould hap¬ pen, (which I pray God avert) where are they Noahs, the Daniels, and the Jobs, God's eminent Saints and Servants, the choice Favourites of Heaven, who fhould turn away God's Fury from fuch a Land and People ? Shall the good, (for with mer¬ ciful Allowances many good People there are amidfi: this grand Corruption and Degeneracy;) fhall they, if they were really much better than they are, be able to deliver more than their own Souls ? Let us lay thefe Things ferioufly to heart$ let us confider in due time, and no longer prefume upon God’s much injured Patience. Let us not cover our fins with the Veil of Hypocrify, but determine upon an immediate Amendment. Let us, in imitation of fome of our Pious Ancejlors upon a like 2 occafion, deprecate God’s Vengeance by a daily there was a farther decreafe to Four thoufand nine hundred and twenty nine, in the next to Four thoufand three hundred and twenty feven, the next to Two thoufand fix hundred and fixty five, the next to One thoufand four hundred and twenty one, and the next to One thoufand and thirty one. The firil Week in November, there was an increafe to Ond thoufand four hundred.and fourteen ; but it fell the Week after to One thoufand and fifty, and the Week after to Six hundred and fifty two, and fo leffen’d more and more to the end of the Year. And the whole number of thofe that were reckon¬ ed to die of the Plague in London this Year, was Sixty eight thoufand five hundred and ninety fix. 1 Ezekiel 14. 14, 20. z Upon the dreadful F,arthquake which happened in this King¬ dom the fixth of April in the Year 1580, Dr. Grindal, then Lord Archbifhop of Canterbury, drew up a form of Prayer to be ufed in