I. Let us Thankfully, and Agreeably, and Particularly, Acknowledge What Help we have Received from the God of Heaven, in the years that have Rolled over us• While the Blessed Apostle Paul, was, as it should seem, yet short of being Threescore years old, how affectionately did he set up an Ebenezer, with an Acknowledgement in Act. 26.22. Having obtained Help o• God, I continue to This Day! Our Tow• is now Threescore and Eight years old; an• certainly 'tis Time for us, with all possible affection, to set up our Ebenezer, saying Having obtained Help from God, the Town is continued, until almost the Age of man i• passed over it! The Town hath indeed Three Elder Sisters in this Colony; but i• hath Wonderfully Outgrown them all; an• ⟨p. 7⟩•er Mother, old Boston, in England also; •ea, within a Few years, after the first-settlement, it grew to be, The Metropolis of the whole English America. •ittle was This Expected, by them that First-Settled the Town, when, for a while, Boston, was proverbially called, Lost Town, for the mean and sad Circumstances of it. But, O Boston, it is because thou •ast Obtained Help from God; even from •he Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the sake of His Gospel, Preached and once prized •ere, undertook thy Patronage. When •he World and the Church of God, had •een Twenty six Generations, a Psalm was Composed, wherein that Note occurs with Twenty six Repetitions; His Mercy endu•eth for ever. Truly, there ha's not one year passed over this Town, Ab Urbe Condita, upon the Story whereof, we might not make that Note, our Ebenezer; His Mercy endureth for ever. It ha's been a Town of Great Experiences. There have been several years, wherein the Terrible Famine, hath Terribly Stared the Town in the Face: We have been brought sometimes unto the Last Meal in the Barrel; ⟨p. 8⟩We have cried out, with the Disciples, We have not Loaves enough to feed a Tenth part of us! B•t the feared Famine ha's always been kept off; always, we have had Seasonable and Sufficient Supplies, after a Surprising manner sent in unto us: Let the Three last years in this thing most Eminently Proclaim the Goodness of our Heavenly Shepherd and Feeder. This ha's been the Help of our God; Because His Mercy endureth for ever! The Angels of Death, have often Shot the Arrows of Death, into the midst of the Town; The Small Pox, ha's especially Four Times, been a Great Plague upon us:
I. Let us Thankfully, and Agreeably, and Particularly, Acknowledge What Help we have Received from the God of Heaven, in the years that have Rolled over us• While the Blessed Apostle Paul, was, as it should seem, yet short of being Threescore years old, how affectionately did he set up an Ebenezer, with an Acknowledgment in Act. 26.22. Having obtained Help o• God, I continue to This Day! Our Tow• is now Threescore and Eight years old; an• certainly 'tis Time for us, with all possible affection, to set up our Ebenezer, saying Having obtained Help from God, the Town is continued, until almost the Age of man i• passed over it! The Town hath indee• Three Elder Sisters in this Colony; but i• hath Wonderfully Outgrown them all; an• ⟨p. 7⟩•er Mother, old Boston, in England also; •ea, within a Few years, after the first-•ettlement, it grew to be, The Metro•olis of the whole English America. •ittle was This Expected, by them that First-Settled the Town, when, for a while, Boston, was proverbially called, Lost Town, for the mean and sad Circumstan•es of it. But, O Boston, it is because thou •ast Obtained Help from God; even from •he Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the sake of His Gospel, Preached and once prized •ere, undertook thy Patronage. When •he World and the Church of God, had •een Twenty six Generations, a Psalm was Composed, wherein that Note occurs with Twenty six Repetitions; His Mercy endu•eth for ever. Truly, there ha's not one year passed over this Town, Ab Urbe Condita, upon the Story whereof, we might not make that Note, our Ebenezer; His Mercy endureth for ever. It ha's been a Town of Great Experiences. There have been several years, wherein the Terrible Famine, hath Terribly Stared the Town in the Face: We have been brought someimes unto the Last Meal in the Barrel;
