Α DISCOURSE ON EARTHQUAKES, A S SUPERNATURAL AND PREMONITORY SIGNS TO Α ΝΑΤΙΟΝ, Efpecially as to what occurred in the Year 1692. WITH SOME REMARKS RESPECTING That Affurance of Mind which is attainable in the ALSO AN Enquiry into the Ground of our Hopes and Fears, BY ROBERT FLEMING, V. D. M. LONDON: PRINTED FOR G. TERRY, No. 54, PATERNOSTER-ROW. (03) THE PREFACE. Tis fure that the great Intent of Religion, is to bring It is Men into a near Communion and Intimacy with God, whilst they are here on the Earth, both by his Word and Providences; and where this end is no defigned, it is a very low Intereft that can be made by the Profeffion thereof: For it may be evident, how the Intellectual Part of Man, when it is in a ferious and true Exercife, must tend either to their greatest Torment, or to an unexpreffible foy, when they cannot but fee that their Good is not in their own Hand, but muft every moment be dependent on an invifible Refuge and Support; fince men are no Statutes, but in the folid ufe of Reafon, must have deep impreffions, both as to fears and hopes of future Events, and how fad and surprising Changes may be near in the Public State of Nations and Cities, as well as of Perfons when all Human Refuge and Affiftances will fail; yea, when then the great Law-giver's Right and Authority to a paffive Obedience, will be found indifputable in the way of Judgment, over fuch, who would not acknowledge the fame by active Obedience, under a Treaty of Grace. But yet fuch is the tender Regard of the Majefty of God to Human Race, and to the Work of his own Hand, that in the most fevere, judicial Procedure with a People and Nation, he does not surprise without previous Weiss Apr 4 1928 |