Conjectures on the cause of thunder . e;where all affembled perifhed. This was in thefirft year of Titus the emperor: but fuch a partialjudgment not mending their manners; nineyears after, the whole city was deftroyed by alake of liquid fire and brimftone, from mountVefuvius, juft in the manner we now find it 350 foot deep in cinders, and afhes. When E ARTH QJJ A K E S. 63 When thyjudgments, 0 God, are abroad^ the in-habitants of the earth will learn right eoufnefs. The JLord is the true God; he is the living God\the ever/a/ling King: At his wrath, the earthJhall tremble, and the nations fl: a
Conjectures on the cause of thunder . e;where all affembled perifhed. This was in thefirft year of Titus the emperor: but fuch a partialjudgment not mending their manners; nineyears after, the whole city was deftroyed by alake of liquid fire and brimftone, from mountVefuvius, juft in the manner we now find it 350 foot deep in cinders, and afhes. When E ARTH QJJ A K E S. 63 When thyjudgments, 0 God, are abroad^ the in-habitants of the earth will learn right eoufnefs. The JLord is the true God; he is the living God\the ever/a/ling King: At his wrath, the earthJhall tremble, and the nations fl: all not be able toabide his indignation \ fays the prophet Jeremiah\x. 10. God give us grace, that inftead of thefcfhort-lived, and unfatisfying pleafures; infteadof palaces and houfes here, ornamented in afumptuous and elegant tafie -, which may per-haps be fwept away, with their owners, in amoment -> we may afpire towards that heavenlycity, which is above 5 whofe foundations are notlaid with hands, eternal in the heavens, & THE PHILOSOPHY OF EARTHQUAKES, NATURAL and II, Pbilofophi ipjius, qui de fua <vi ac fapientia unus omnia pene profit eturyejl tamen qucedam defcriptio ; ut is qui Jiudeat omnium rerum di-*vinarum atque humanarum *vim9 naturam, caufafq\ nojfe : &cmnem bene njinjendi rationem tenere, & perfequi; nomine * Cicero de Oratore, By WILLIAM STUKELEr, Rector of St. Georges, Queen-Square -, Fellowof the College of FhyficianSj and of the Royaland Antiquarian Societies. L O N D O N: Printed for A. and QCorbett, at their Corn ftState-Lottery-Office over-againft St. Dun/tansChurch, Fketftreet. R E r A C E» TiJ/S difcourfe is but a neceffary confe-quence of the preceding. The whole noother than an effay, toward invejligating the truenature of the wonderful appearance of an earth-quake, Andfomething is done toward it, if onlyby eradicating an old error. In attaining thepropofed end, I have endeavoured to lay all the ne-c
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