MODEST
REMARKS
UPON THE
Bishop of LONDON’s
LETTER
Concerning the late
EARTHQUAKES.
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MODEST
REMARKS
UPON THE
Bishop of LONDON’s
LETTER
Concerning the late
EARTHQUAKES.
By One of the People called QUAKERS.
| And now, O ye Priests, this Commandment is for you. If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to Heart, to give Glory unto my Name, saith the Lord of Hosts, I will even send a Curse upon you, and I will curse your Blessings: Yea, I have cursed them already because ye do not lay it to Heart.——Therefore I also made you contemptible and base before all the People, as ye have not kept my Way, but have been PARTIAL in the Law. Malachi, ii. 1st. 2d. and 3d. Verses. |
LONDON:
Printed for T. Howard, at the Pamphlet Shop in the
Temple-Exchange Coffee House, Fleet-street. 1750.
TO THE
BISHOP
OF
LONDON.
Friend Thomas,
erily Ihave perused thy Letter Addressed to the Clergy andInhabitants of the Cities of London and Westminster with greatAttention, and must acknowledge to thee with Concern, that I amexceedingly disappointed in the Expectation I had raised to myself fromthat Work. The Solemnity, Friend, of the Occasion, the Seriousness andConsequence of the Subject treated of, and the Relation thou pretendest tostand in to the Inhabitants of these Cities, made me believe, that Nothingwould be omitted, that was Necessary to awaken the Conscience, and informthe Understandings of all Degrees of People, within thy Charge. But howvain is human Wisdom, and how infinitely short-sighted are its Researches,when it relies upon itself, and is unassisted by that Spirit, to whom all[Pg 6]Events are known, who searcheth the Hearts and tryeth the Reins of theChildren of Men!
Thy Letter, Friend, instead of awakening the Conscience of the hardenedSinner, or confirming the Faith of the staggering Believer, has confoundedtheir Understandings, and led them into a Labyrinth, out of which it isimpossible they should ever extricate themselves by the Strength of themere natural Man.
Thou hast without any Authority, (for thou disclaimest all Inspirationfrom the Holy Spirit) represented the two Shocks of an Earthquake,lately felt, as a supernatural Event; and magisterially pronounced themthe Effects of a special Providence, threatning Ve