Conjectures on the cause of thunder . ecapitulationof circumfiances 5 that they are peculiarlydirected to great cities, and maritime towns,thofe nurferies of wealth, luxury, and of allthe evils naturally flowing therefrom. Itwould be childifh to rehearfe from old hiftory,.or modern, a proof of it. We have no othernotices of them. Look upon thefe two lhockswe have here felt. We own that Hampfted-heathy and Finchley-foreft, and Kennington-com-mon were affecled with it; yet it is notorious,that London was the center, the place to whichthe finger of God was pointed. And this leads us in the third
Conjectures on the cause of thunder . ecapitulationof circumfiances 5 that they are peculiarlydirected to great cities, and maritime towns,thofe nurferies of wealth, luxury, and of allthe evils naturally flowing therefrom. Itwould be childifh to rehearfe from old hiftory,.or modern, a proof of it. We have no othernotices of them. Look upon thefe two lhockswe have here felt. We own that Hampfted-heathy and Finchley-foreft, and Kennington-com-mon were affecled with it; yet it is notorious,that London was the center, the place to whichthe finger of God was pointed. And this leads us in the third place, to con-lider the moral ufe and purpofe of thefe magna-,lia naturce^ and prodigies of the agency of ma-terial E ART H QJJ AK E So 45 terlal caufes. For nothing fare, but an electri-cal mock, and that frorx a divine hand, couldhave been fo well adjufted, as twice, nay fourtimes, fo fenfibly to (hake every houfe in Lon-don, and not throw one down. This duty wewill endeavour to execute, from the words ofthat great man, king David,. PSALM 46 The Philofophy of
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