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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    were frequent Earthquakes, and other prodigies. Be¬ fore Saladin attempted the overthrow, of Jerufalem, and to ravage the holy land, An. 1172. 1 great Earth¬ quakes preceded. An. 1300. when the Turkifh em¬ pire began to be confiderable, there 2 was fuch an Earthquake at Rome, as the like never was before. As when the Pagan empire wras to turn Chriftian, in the time of Conftantine the Great ; great Earthquakes alfo did precede : by one whereof thirteen cities in Cam¬ pania were overthrown. Great defigns of providence being ferved, and the changes of States and countries ufhered in by Earth¬ quakes, after the mention of that terrible one in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, Zech. xiv. 5. it is added, And the Lord my C-cd fhall come, and all the faints with thee : Or thus. And yet 0 Lord my* God come, and all the faints with thee. Notwithflanding our fears and terrors, without this we jfhould not fee thy falva- tion. Dr. J Jackfon thinks that Earthquakes were emblems, and types of that great change by the mini- ftry of John the Baptift, our Lord’s forerunner, in the 15th year of Tiberius, who declared the kingdom of heaven was at hand ^ when publicans and fihners were advanced, and the children of Abraham, who gloried in their birthright, were debafed j when poor fiiher- men became heads of the tribes of Ifrael; greater men in the houfe of God, than Moles and Aaron had been;, while the fucceffors of Moles, the chief priefts and doctors of the law, were infatuated, and like fait with¬ out take or favour. And he reckons the prophecy of Ifaiah,'chap. xl. 14. every valley fto all he exalted, and every mountain and hill jhall he brought low, was fulfilled, and anlwered in its literal meaning (in part at lead) by 1 Saladinus adjecit animum ad regni Jerof™mitani everiionem, prnsvio, ut lolet fieri, terra; motu, quo Aiidoffiiia, Laodicea, Ala- pia, Crefarea, Emilia, Tripolis, alijeque «P£k. fere conciderunt. Cluverius. • ' f z Platina. J Dr. Jackfonh works, Tom. 2. Part. 2. lib. 7. p. 526. G that