Repentance the sure way to escape destruction. Two sermons on Jrr. [sic] 18. 7,8. Preach'd December 21st. on a publick fast occasioned by the earthquake the night after the Lord's-Day Octob. 29th. And on the Lord's-Day December 24th. 1727. / By Joseph Sewall, M.A. Pastor of a church of Christ in Boston. ; Publish'd with some enlargement. ; [Six lines from Ezekiel]

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Repentance the sure way to escape destruction. Two sermons on Jrr. [sic] 18. 7,8. Preach'd December 21st. on a publick fast occasioned by the earthquake the night after the Lord's-Day Octob. 29th. And on the Lord's-Day December 24th. 1727. / By Joseph Sewall, M.A. Pastor of a church of Christ in Boston. ; Publish'd with some enlargement. ; [Six lines from Ezekiel]

Author

Sewall, Joseph, 1688-1769.

Publication

Boston: :: Printed for D. Henchman, at the corner shop over against the brick meeting-house in Corn-Hill.,

1727.

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Subject terms

Earthquakes -- Religious interpretations.

Earthquakes -- New England -- Religious interpretations.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.

Fast day sermons -- 1727 Dec. 21.

Fast day sermons -- 1727 Dec. 24.

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"Repentance the sure way to escape destruction. Two sermons on Jrr. [sic] 18. 7,8. Preach'd December 21st. on a publick fast occasioned by the earthquake the night after the Lord's-Day Octob. 29th. And on the Lord's-Day December 24th. 1727. / By Joseph Sewall, M.A. Pastor of a church of Christ in Boston. ; Publish'd with some enlargement. ; [Six lines from Ezekiel]." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N02496.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024. content_copy

Contents

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• GOD will not Destroy a Penitent People.
  • DOCT. I. GOD is wont to Threaten a Peo∣ple, and give them Warning before He brings Destroying Judgments upon them.
  • II. DOCT. IF a People, when thus Threat∣ned, Repent of the Evil of their Sins, and turn from them to the Lord; God will also Repent and not bring the threatned Evil of Punishment upon them.
• SERMON II.
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  • DOCT. III. BUT if a People when thus Threatned go on obstinately in their Sins, they may expect that God will bring His Destroying Judgments upon them till they are made desolate.
  • APPLICATION.
• ADVERTISEMENT.