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ing-Desk Hands juft by the Singing-Pew •, and I 
really thought that Part of the Church betwixt the 
Chancel and the Pillar next to it would have funk' 
into the Earth, with a loud and dreadful Noife 
from a fort of fubterraneous Explofion, or whatever 
the Learned and Curious will term it. After that 
awful Noife, and fomething far exceeding a com- 
mon Tremor, it kept rolling on feemingly from 
North to South, with an hollow Rumbling, like 
Thunder at a Diftance. This uncommon Shock, I 
find, upon Inquiry, was felt in all the neighbour- 
ing Towns in Leicejterfhire, as well as in this County; 
and very likely we fhall hear that many Parrs of the 
Ifiand were affected by it. 
May the Inhabitants, at leaft, from the highcft to 
the loweft, look upon thefc as fo many tremendous 
Warnings, as the fure Indexes of God’s Difpleafure 
with the Degeneracy, the Luxury, the Prophanenefs, 
and unhappy Divifions of the Nation. To pretend 
to flee for Safety and Protection from the City to 
the Country, or from one Part of the Country to 
another, is degrading Chriftianity to Heathenifm ; 
and, with the Syrians, to think that the God we 
ferve is a God of the Hills, and not of the Plain. I 
cannot therefore but juftly wonder at thofe who can 
feel the Bowels of the Earth in Convulfions, and 
Nature rending in Pieces, and the God of Nature 
at the fame time not rever’d by the mod lading 
Ads of Worfhip and Obedience! To fuch I would 
only beg Leave to relate a Story I have met with, 
and fhall leave the Application to themfelves ; which 
may very eaftly be done ; tho’ originally introduc’d. 
