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continued burning for six days. Thus the fire 

 consumed almost everything the earthquake had 

 spared. 



The account of volcanoes and earthquakes 

 which you have just heard I have taken from 

 the best and most authentic narratives, written 

 by an eye-witness. I will now proceed to apply 

 the subject to your own hearts, and will endea- 

 vour to do so with an affectionate desire to be 

 of use to you. You have been told of the 

 sudden and awful effects of an earthquake, and 

 of the bursting out ot a destructive volcano. 

 How little time was afforded to the unfortunate 

 sufferers to cry for mercy I Now consider, for 

 one moment, how much more dreadful, and 

 how equally sudden, the day of judgment will 

 be. The ground will not then tremble, or 

 buildings be shaken, but the foundations of the 

 round world will be discovered, when its flaming 

 walls shall give way the pillars of the universe 

 will totter down, and the whole sink in universal 

 ruin. 



It is my wish to impress this awful truth 

 strongly upon you. Keep in your minds that 

 you have, all of you, a soul to be saved : and 

 gladly would I think that you are aware of this, 



