28 results filtered with: Earthquakes - New England - Religious aspects
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Divine power and and anger displayed in earthquakes. A sermon occasioned by the late earthquake, in New-England, November 18. 1755. And preached, the next Lord's-Day, at Point-Shirley. By Mather Byles, A.M. Published at the pressing importunity of the hearers. [Six lines o Scripture texts]
Byles, Mather, 1735-1814.Date: 1755- Books
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The nature and necessity of repentance, with the means and motives to it. A discourse occasion'd by the earthquake. Preached at Boxford, in part on the publick fast, Dec. 21. 1727. By John Rogers, V.D.M.
Rogers, John, 1684-1755.Date: 1728- Books
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The terror of the Lord. Some account of the earthquake that shook New-England, in the night, between the 29 and the 30 of October, 1727. With a speech, made unto the inhabitants of Boston, who assembled the next morning, for the proper exercises of religion, on so uncommon, and so tremendous an occasion. [One line from II Corinthians]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1727- Books
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The doctrine of earthquakes. Two sermons preached at a particular fast in Weymouth, Nov. 3. 1727. The Friday after the earthquake. Wherein this terrible work appears not to proceed from natural second causes, in any orderly way of their producing: but from the mighty power of God immediately interposed; and is to the world, a token of God's anger, &c. and presage of terrible changes. With examples of many earthquakes in history, --illustrating this doctrine. By Thomas Paine, M.A. Pastor of a church in Weymouth. [Five lines from Isaiah]
Paine, Thomas, 1694-1757.Date: MDCCXXVIII. [1728]- Books
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Divine warnings to be received with faith & fear, and improved to excite to all proper methods for our own safety and our families. Shew'd in a discourse on Heb. XI. 7. on the publick fast, Dec. 21. 1727. On occasion of the terrible earthquake Oct. 29, 30. & frequently since repeated. To which is added, a discourse on Prov. 2. 1--6. By William Williams, M.A. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Weston. [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Williams, William, 1688-1760.Date: 1728- Books
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Earthquakes improved: or Solemn warning to the world; by the tremendous earthquake which happen'd on Tuesday morning the 18th of November 1755, between four and five o'clock.
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Thunder and earthquake, a loud and awful call to reformation. Consider'd in a sermon preached at Brooklyn [i.e., Brookline, Mass.], November the first; upon a special fast, occasion'd by the earthquake, which happen'd in the evening after the 29th day of October 1727. Now published with enlargements. By James Allin, Minister of the Gospel there.
Allin, James, 1692-1747.Date: 1727- Books
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Extraordinary displays of the divine majesty & power, are to try men, and impress the fear of God on their hearts, that they sin not. Being the substance of two sermons occasioned by a terrible earthquake in New-England, and other parts of northern America; the night immediately following the Sabbath-Day, October 29. 1727. Publickly delivered in Wethersfield, on November the 5th. and 12th. the Sabbaths next succeeding the said earthquake. Something enlarged. By Stephen Mix, M.A. Pastor of a church there. [Three lines of Scripture text]
Mix, Stephen, 1672-1738.Date: 1728- Books
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The terror of the Lord. Some account of the earthquake that shook New-England, in the night, between the 29 and the 30 of October. 1727. With a speech, made unto the inhabitants of Boston, who assembled the next morning, for the proper exercises of religion, on so uncommon, and so tremendous an occasion. [One line from Corinthians]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1727- Books
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A discourse on Rev. XV. 3d, 4th. Occasioned by the earthquakes in November 1755. Delivered in the West-Meeting-House, Boston, Thursday December 18, following. In five parts, with an introduction. Part I. Of the greatness of God's works. Part II. Of their marvellous and unsearchable nature. Part III. Of the moral perfections and government of God. Part IV. Of our obligation to fear, glorify and worship him. Part V. Practical reflections upon the subject, relative to the occasion. By Jonathan Mayhew, D.D. Pastor of the West Church in Boston. [Three lines from Psalms]
Mayhew, Jonathan, 1720-1766.Date: M,DCC,LV. [1755]- Books
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Two discourses addressed to young persons; to which is added, a sermon occasioned by the earthquake, which was October 29. 1727. By John Barnard, A.M. Pastor of a church in Marblehead. [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Barnard, John, 1681-1770.Date: MDCCXXVII. [1727]- Books
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The danger of people's loosing the good impressions made by the late awful earthquake. A sermon preach'd a month after it happen'd. By William Cooper, Pastor to a church in Boston. [Eight lines of Scripture quotations]
Cooper, William, 1694-1743.Date: 1727- Books
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Earthquakes the works of God and tokens of his just displeasure. Two sermons on Psal. xviii. 7. At the particular fast in Boston, Nov. 2. and the general thanksgiving, Nov. 9. Occasioned by the late dreadful earthquake. Wherein among other things is offered a brief account of the natural causes of these operations in the hands of God: with a relation of some late terrible ones in other parts of the world, as well as those that have been perceived in New-England since it's [sic] settlement by English inhabitants. By Thomas Prince, M.A. and one of the Pastors of the South Church in Boston. [Four lines from Psalms]
Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758.Date: MDCCXXVII. [1727]- Books
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A discourse concerning earthquakes. Occasioned by the earthquakes which were in New-England, in the province of Massachusetts-Bay, June 16. and in Conecticot-Colony [sic], June 22. 1705. Also, two sermons, shewing, that sin is the greatest evil; and, that to redeem time is the greatest wisdom. By Increase Mather.
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.Date: 1706- Books
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The duty of a people to stand in aw [sic] of God, and not sin, when under his terrible judgements. A sermon preach'd at the South Meeting House in Boston, the evening after the earthquake, which was in the night between the 29th & 30th of October, 1727. By Joseph Sewall, M.A. Pastor of a Church of Christ in Boston. [Six lines from Isaiah]
Sewall, Joseph, 1688-1769.Date: 1727- Books
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The voice of the Lord, from the deep places of the earth. A sermon preach'd on the Thursday-lecture in Boston, in the audience of the General Court, at the opening of the sessions, Nov. 23. 1727. Three weeks after the earthquake. By Thomas Foxcroft. [Three lines from Amos]
Foxcroft, Thomas, 1697-1769.Date: MDCCXXVII. [1727]- Books
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Sin testify'd against by heaven and earth. A sermon preached on the Friday after the great and terrible earthquake, which occur'd on the Lord's-Day-evening, between the 29th and the 30th of October, 1727. By John Barnard, Pastor of a church in Andover.
Barnard, John, 1690-1757.Date: 1727 [i.e. 1728]- Books
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God by his power causes the earth and its inhabitants to tremble. The substance of two sermons on I. Sam. XIV. 15. preached soon after the earthquake, at Wobourn [sic]. By John Fox, A.M. And now printed at the earnest request of many of the auditors, for their own particular use.
Fox, John, 1678-1756.Date: 1728- Books
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Practical discourses delivered on occasion of the earthquakes in November, 1755. Wherein is particularly shown, by a variety of arguments, the great importance of turning our feet unto God's testimonies, and of making haste to keep his commandments; together with the reasonableness, the necessity, and great advantage, of a serious consideration of our ways. By Jonathan Mayhew, D.D. Pastor of the West-Church in Boston.
Mayhew, Jonathan, 1720-1766.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
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A holy fear of God, and his judgments, exhorted to: in a sermon preach'd at Newton, November 3. 1727. On a day of fasting and prayer, occasion'd by the terrible earthquake that shook New-England, on the Lords-Day night before. By John Cotton, Pastor of the Church of Christ there. With an appendix containing a remarkable account of the extraordinary impressions made on the inhabitants of Haverhill, &c. [Five lines of Scripture quotations]
Cotton, John, 1693-1757.Date: M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]- Books
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The day of trouble near, the tokens of it, and a due preparation for it; in three sermons on Ezekiel VII. 7. The first of which was preached on the Lord's Day, October 29. 1727. Which was the day immediately preceeding [sic] the late earthquake; the other two were prepared for, and one of them was preach'd on a day of publick fasting and prayer. Nov. 16. To which is added, a sermon on Deuteronomy V. 29. Preach'd the Wednesday after that awakening providence; and an Appendix, giving some account of the earthquake, as it was in Hampton, and something remarkable of thunder and lightning in that town, in the year 1727. By Nathaniel Gookin, M.A. Pastor of the Old Church in Hampton, in New-Hamphsire. [Five lines of Scripture quotations]
Gookin, Nathaniel, 1687-1734.Date: M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
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The judgments of Providence in the hand of Christ: his voice to us in the terrible earthquake. And the earth devoured by the curse. In four sermons. By Benjamin Colman. [Four lines from Isaiah]
Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747.Date: 1727- Books
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Observations moral and religious, on the late terrible night of the earthquake. A sermon preached at the Thursday lecture, in Boston. January 1st. 1756. By Thomas Prentice, A.M. a Pastor of the church in Charlestown. [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Prentice, Thomas, 1702-1782.Date: 1756- Books
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Boanerges. A short essay to preserve and strengthen the good impressions produced by earthquakes on the minds of people that have been awakened with them. With some views of what is to be further and quickly look'd for. Address'd unto the whole people of New-England, who have been terrified with the late earthquakes; and more especially the towns that have had a more singular share in the terrors of them. [Three lines from I Chronicles]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1727- Books
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Pious heart-elations: being the substance of a sermon in publick on November 29th in consideration of present awful providences amongst us; and on the Sabbath following in the forenoon. December 3d. 1727. From those words of Jeremiah, in Lamentations III. 41. Let us lift u our hearts with our hands unto God in the heavens. By Edward Payson M.A. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Rowley.
Payson, Edward, 1657-1732.Date: 1728