< Mediation of his Son Jefus ; left, for a Neglect at the Beginning of the divine Judgments, and our Sorrows, God fhould be provoked, by another more dreadful Shock, to bury us in the • Ruins of our own Houses, or fend us alive into the Pit of Destruction. Such a Regard and Im· provement of the divine Judgments, is the fincere Wish of A D D END A. Page 448, Line 11, add, T AKE this Infcription, as it was drawn up by Mr. Killingworth, verbatim, as it occurs in a Letter he wrote to me dated at Norwich, May 11, 1749. IN MEMORY OF Mr. WILLIAM BARON, IN THE NAME OF THE LORD MANY WERE HEALED OF THEIR DISE ASES. HE WAS A FAITHFUL SERVANT OF CHRIST, CONTENDED EARNESTLY FOR THE FAITH ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS; AND DIED IN THE FIRM BELIEF OF A RESURRECTION TO AN HAPPY IMMORTALITY, THE GIFT OF THE ONE ONLY SUPREME GOD THE FATHER BY THE MINISTRATION OF HIS SON JESUS CHRIST, VII FEBRUARY, MDCCXXX-I, IN THE LII YEAR OF HIS AGE. N, B. N. B. That at the Time of the fecond London Earthquake, there was fo current a Report fpread over the Nation, that the great Sir Ifaac Newton had himself foretold that Earthquake, and that it would be derived from the Approach of the Planet Jupiter, that I thought fit to contradict fuch an idle and groundless Report in an Advertisement, upon March 14, 1750, in the Daily Advertiser, in the Words following: Mr. Whiston gives notice,. That though he expects many more Earthquakes in the World, within a Year, or two at the fartheft, before the Reftoration of the Jews, as Signals of its Approach, and of the horrible Miseries the wicked Part of the Jews and Christians will be fubject to, while the really Pious and Good will be providentially delivered from them, yet does he not in the leaft believe that Sir Ifaac Newton ever foretold any Earthquake; and is fure that Jupiter, at the Beginning of this Year 1750, was, and is above 400,000,000 Miles off the Earth, and fo could not poffibly have any Influence on Earthquakes here below. Page 652, Line 12, add, The fame Circumftances about the Original Sin at the Fall of Man, seem to me to have occafion'd another Memorial of it in the Days of Abraham and Jacob, at least in the Family whence the Meffiah was to fpring; I mean, when in Oaths, they put their Hand under the Thigh, Gen. xxiv. 2, 9. xlvii. 29. the Meaning of which is not unobvious, and feems to me to have had the like Meaning with Circumcifion already fet down. N.B. The two Notes at the End of my most important additional Sheet upon the Revelation, refering to the fame as here inferted, are omitted, as unneceffary Repetitions, Page 45, Line 23, add, See alfo the two laft very large and remarkable Chapters of 4 Efdras, which seem to belong to these Times alfo. Page 58, Line 26, add, befides the laft Earthquake, on Thursday, Aug. 23, at Clumber, at Grantham, at Lyndon, at Lincoln, and Stamford, &c. Page 149, Line 12, for fix read feven. Page 181, Line 7, dele within the Bills of Mortality. Inftructions and Advice to CATHOLICKS, &c. [from their Bishop in London.] I. O ferious Christian can doubt, but that Earthquakes, whenfoever they happen, and whatfoever Caufes may bring them about, are indeed the handy Work of God. All Nature is his Hand-maid; and the whole Creation is ready at his Beck to take Arms to revenge his Cause upon his Enemies, Wifd. v. 18. And we find, upon Examination, that the moft dreadful of his Judgments are are ufually executed by natural Caufes, which he makes the Inftruments of his Juftice. 2. Earthquakes are justly looked upon as Indications of the Wrath of God, enkindled against his People by their Sins. So the Holy Fathers underftood them. [St. Gregory, Homily 35.] So the Church understands them in her Collects appointed to be read on thofe Occafions. They are reckoned up by our Lord himself amongst the Beginnings of Sorrows, the Forerunners of the last and most dreadful Judgment of God upon impenitent Sinners, Matt. xxiv. 7, 8. 3. We have then too much Reason to apprehend that these late Earthquakes are Tokens that God is at present angry with us; and that theSword of his Justice is actually hanging over our Heads, and threatning us with the worst of his Judgments. And what else indeed can any one expect, who seriously reflects on the Multitude and Enormity of the Blafphemies, Perjuries, and other crying Sins, that are fo common among all Sorts of People: Sins more heinous in the Sight of God, than the very Crimes that drew down his Wrath upon Sodom; and committed with fo much Audaciousness and Impunity, as if it were in Defiance of Heaven: Besides that general Lewdnefs, Injustice, profane Swearing, and other Vices which every-where reign, together with an utter Contempt of all Religion, and Profanation of all that is facred. And though we flatter ourselves that those who are of the Houfhold of Faith are much more free than their Neighbours, from the Generality of these crying Evils; yet, when we confider |