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The Bostonian Ebenezer. Some historical remarks, on the state of Boston, the chief town…
The Bostonian Ebenezer. Some historical remarks, on the state of Boston, the chief town of New England, and of English America. With some, agreeable methods, for preserving and promoting, the good state of that, as well as any other town, in the like circumstances. / Humbly offered, by a native of Boston.
Boston: printed by B. Green & J. Allen for Samuel Phillips, 1698
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Let our Lord JESUS CHRIST, be •ais'd as our Bl•ss•d Helper: That Stone which the Foolish Builders have refused, •h! Set up that Stone; even, that H gh ⟨p. 14⟩Rock, Set Him on High in our praises, and say, That, That is our Ebenezer. 'Tis our Lord JESUS CHRIST, who in His Infinite Compassions for the Town, hath said; as in Isa. 63.5. I Looked, and there was none to Help; Therefore my own Arm hath brought Salvation unto it. It is foretold concerning the Idolatrous Roman Catholics, That together with the Lord Jesus Christ, they shall Worship other Mauzzim: that is to say, other Protectors. Accordingly, All their Towns, ordinarily have singled out their Protectors, among the Saints of Heaven; such a Saint is Entitled unto the Patronage of such a Town among them, and such a Saint for another: Old Boston, by Name, was but Saint Botolph's Town. Whereas, Thou, O Boston, shalt have but one Protector in Heaven, and that is, our Lord JESUS CHRIST. Oh! Rejoice in Him alone, & say, That Lord is my Fortress and my Deliverer! There was a Song once made for a Town, which in its Distresses had been Helped wondrously; & the First Clause in that Song, [you have it in Isa. 26.1.] may be so rendered, We have a ⟨p. 15⟩strong Town; Salvation [or JESUS, the Lord whose Name hath Salvation in it] Will appoint Walls and Bulwarks. Truly, What Helps we have had, we will Sing, 'Tis our JESUS, that hath appointed them. The old Pagan Towns, were sometimes mightily solicitous, to conceal the Name of the particular God, that they counted their Protector, Ne ab hostibus Evocatus, alio commigraret. But, I shall be far from doing my Town any Damage, by publishing the Name of its Protector; No, Let all Mankind know, That the Name of our Protector, is JESUS CHRIST: For, Among the Gods, there is none like unto thee, O LORD: Nor is any Help like unto thine: And there is no Rock, like to our God.
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