• Throne, and from the Wrath of the Lamb; 'For the day of his Wrath is come; great and who fhall be able to ftand. So in Chapter 8. And the Angel took the Cen'fer and filled it with Fire of the Altar, and caft it into the Earth: and there were Voices, and Thundrings, and Lightnings, and an Earthquake. And again. in Chapter 11. And they heard a great 'Voice from Heaven faying unto the Witneffes, Come up hither,and they afcended ' up to Heaven in a Cloud, and their Ene-. 'mies beheld them. And the feventh Angel founded, and there were great Voices in Heaven faying, The Kingdoms of this World are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Chrift, and he fhall Reign 'for ever and ever. And the four and twen-. ⚫ty Elders which fate before God on their

Seats fell upon their Faces and Worshiped 'God, faying, We give thee thanks O Lord 'God Almighty, which art and wast, and art to come; because thou haft taken to thee thy great Power and haft Reigned, ver. 18, And the Nations were angry, and thy Wrath is come, and the time of the Dead that they fhould be Judged, and that thou fhouldeft give reward to thy Servants the Prophets, and to the 'Saints and them that fear thy Name fmall and great, and fhouldest destroy them 'which deftroyeft the Earth. And the Temple of God was opened in Heaven, B 3

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and there was feen in his Temple the Ark ' of his Teftament; and there were Lightnings, and Voices, and Thundrings, and an Earthquake, and great Hail. Likewife in Chapter 16. And the feventh Angel poured his Vial into the Air, and there was a great Earthquake, and there came a great Voice out of the Temple of Heaven from the Throne, faying, It is • done. And there were Voices, and Thunders, and Lightnings, and there was a great Earthquake, fuch as was not fince Men were upon the Earth, fo mighty an Earthquake and fo great. And the great City was divided into three parts, and the • Cities of the Nation fell, and great Baby-. ⚫lon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the Cup of the Wine of the fierceneis of his Wrath. And every If land fled away, and the Mountains were not found. And there fell upon Men a great Hail out of Heaven, every Stone about the weight of a Talent: and Men Blafphemed God because of the Plague of the Hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great. Thefe and fuch other Scriptures may denote the future Calamaties that will befall the Inhabitants of the Earth about the end of the World, and do also demonstrate the great power and allfufficiency of Almighty God, who as Job faid Chapter 9. Is wife in Heart, and mighty in Strength, who removeth the

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Mountains, and overturneth them in his anger. Who fhaketh the Earth out of her place, and the Pillars thereof tremble.

XVIII. Having given an account of the Supernatural and Metaphorical Earthquakes recorded in Holy Writ; I fhall now relate those that are mentioned by other Hiftorirans of the former and latter Ages, and likewife of fome of the Confequents which have fucceeded them as to Wars, Peftilence, Famines and other dreadful Calamites, and were judged to be the effects of them; wherein I fhall be obliged to repeat fome of thofe already published in a Book called, furprizing Miracles of Nature, &c.

XIX. Before the birth of our Saviour, Plato mentions a wonderful Earthquake, whereby in a Day and a Night a vaft Inland without the Streights of Gibralter called Atlantis, and bigger than Afia and Africa together, was wholly overwhelmed, and afterward covered by a great Inundation of Waters, infomuch that on the Atlantick Ocean for a great while after no Ship could Sail, by reafon that the fame huge Sea by refolution of the Earth of that mighty Ifland was all turned into Mud. He alfo Writes, that by ano-. ther terrible Earthquake the Continent of Africa was rent afunder, from Europe and Afia, as it is at this day, being now only connected by a little Neck of Land at the Red Sea. The famous Ifle of Sicily was likewife formerly a part of Italy, and by an Earth

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Earthquake divided from it. And Our Illand of Great-Britain is fuppofed to be broken off from the Continent of France by that means. Herodotus faith that Egypt in ancient time was a Gulph of the Sea, and by an Earthquake made a dry Land. The River Indus in Afia which receives fifteen other Rivers into it, altered its Channel and the neighbouring. Country was turned into a Wilderness by a lamentable Earthquake. Before the Peloponefian,or Civil Wars among the Grecians, one of their lflands called Delphos famous for the Oracle and Temple of Apollo fituated therein, was wholly ruined by an Earthquake, which was thought to portend thofe remarkable alteraitonswhich foon after happened in Greece. A little before the Wars between the Lacedemonians and the Ilote, who were their Slaves and Bondmen in the Country of Laconia, there happened in the City of Sparta a moft terrible and fearful Earthquake, for the Earth in many places of the Country opened and fell in as into a bottomlefs Pit. The Mountain Taygetum hook fo terribly that parts of Rocks fell down from it, and Sparta with two other Cities with the violence of it were thrown to the ground, five hundred Houfes only excepted; And great flouds of Water following it, the Country was almoft utterly destroyed thereby.. Tyre and Sydon fuffered exceedingly by Earthquakes, and

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an infinite number of People were buried under the ruins. And Strabo mentions a City fituate about Sidon that was wholly fwallowed up thereby. up thereby. Pliny writes of twelve Cities ruined in one Night, and St. Auguftine is cited for what is more strange, That in a famous Earthquake a hundred Cities in Libia were deftroyed. In the Ve-liternean Fields the Earth rent afunder in fuch huge and frightful breaches, that Trees and whole Houfes were fwallowed up in them, and it Rained Blood for two whole days together, about which time Hannibal received that notable overthrow by Scipio, which was the deftruction of the famous City and Republick of Carthage, and the Conqueft of that Country to the Romans. Tit, Livius. Hift. Fofephus records that about twenty nine. Years before the birth of Chrift, there happened a tremendous Earthquake in the Country of Judea, whereby divers Beafts were flain, and many People overwhelmed in, the ruins of their Houfes, and perifhed, to the number as fome write of about thirty Thousand.

XX. I now proceed, in a Chronological Order, to relate all the Earthquakes that have happened fince our Saviours Birth, as I find them mentioned by feveral Authors, of which that which happened at his Crucifixion is faid to be the greatest that ever was, which shook not only one part of the Earth as in other cafes, but the whole B.5 Word