Wesley Corpus

Could a small quantity of air, without that violent expansion, have torn so large a body of rock from the rest, to which it adhered in one solid mass? Could it have shivered this into pieces, and scattered several of those pieces some hundred yards round? Could it have transported those promon torics of carth with their incumbent load, and set them down unbroken, unchanged, at a distance? Truly I am not so great a volunteer in faith as to be able to believe this. He that supposes this, must suppose air to be not only very strong, (which we allow,) but a very wise agent; while it bore its charge with so great caution, as not to hurt or dislocate any part of it. What, then, could be the cause? What indeed, but God, who arose “to shake terribly the earth;” who purposely chose such a place, where there is so great a concourse of nobility and gentry every year; and wrought in such a manner, that many might see it and fear,-that all who travel one of the most frequented roads in England might see it, almost whether they would or no, for many miles together? It must like wise for many years, maugre all the art of man, be a visible monument of His power; all that ground being now so incumbered with rocks and stones, that it cannot be either ploughed or grazed. Nor can it well serve any use, but to tell all that see it, Who can stand before this great God? Who can account for the late motion in the waters; not Aonly that of the sea, and rivers communicating therewith, but even that in canals, fishponds, cisterns, and all either largc or small bodies of water? It was particularly observed, that while thc watcr itself was so violently agitated, neither did the G SERIOUS ThouGHTS ON earth shake at all, nor any of the vessels which contained that water. Was such a thing ever known or heard of before?