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.

  • Shower, John, 1657-1715.
Date:
1750
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    ■ i. 97 J - . ' Whatever become of the nation, if national judg¬ ments do not overtake you, you cannot be long out of the grave, or out of hell. You are in danger of dam¬ nation every hour': And, though fentence againft an evil work is not fpeedily executed, though a /inner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged •, yet furely I know it Jhall not be well with the wicked, Eccl. viii. 11, 12, 13. Chrift hath told you again and again, that fuch as you can never be faved. It is the word of the living God, that fuch and fuch perfons as you know your felves to be, fhall never enter into heaven. It is a truth founded on fuch principles, that the contrary is impel- fible. - ' And yet to convince men of this as to their own ftate and condition, there is the difficulty. For, if you will not believe God and Chrift, how fhall I expedt you fhould believe me ? Alas ! you will not confider your cafe for one ferious hour : We can hardly prevail fo far, as to bring you to compare yourfelves with the word; and your own charadter with the defeription of fuch as fhall perifh. You will put it to the venture, and a bold venture it is : for if no minifter in the world fhould tell you, that except you repent, you muft perijh \ yea, if the devil fhould tell you the contrary a thoufand times, it will not make the word of God of none effedl, or your damnation the lefs certain. You may make a ffiift for a little time to drown the voice of confcience, or ftop its mouth; to lay afide the thoughts of death, and judgment, and aneveriafting hell; to fpeak peace to yourfelves, againft the exprefs word of God : but if you are not renewed and fandtified ; if you do not truly repent, fo as td hate fin, and leave it, and turn to the Lord ; if you do not unfeignedly give up your felves to God in Chrift, as your Saviour and Sove¬ reign, in the method of the gofpel, your judgment is near, your deftrudtion is at hand, you muft perijh, and that more dreadfully than moft others in the world : lor your light, your knowledge, your means, your mercies, your calls, your warnings, your examples, are more and FI greater