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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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VII. May the Changes, and especially the Judgments, that have come upon the Town, direct us, what Help to petition from the God of our Salvations. The Israelites had formerly seen dismal Things, where they now set up their Ebenezer: The Philistines had no less than Twice beaten them there, and there taken from them the Ark of God. Now we are setting up our Ebenezer, Let us a little call to mind some Dismal Things that we have seen; the Ebenezer will go up the better for it.
VII. May the Changes, and especially the Iudgments, that have come upon the Town, direct us, what Help to petition from the God of our Salvations. The Israelites had formerly seen dismal Things, where they now set up their Ebenezer: The Philistines had no less than Twice beaten them there, and there taken from them the Ark of God. Now we are setting up our Ebenezer, Let us a little call to mind some Dismal Things that we have seen; the Ebenezer will go up the better for it.
We read, in 1 Sam. 6.18. concerning, The Great Stone of Abel. Some say, That Adam Erected that Stone, as a Grave stone for his Abel, and wrote that Epitaph upon it, Here was poured out the Blood of the Righteous ABEL. I know nothing of This, The Names, I know, differ in the Original; But as we may Erect many a Stone ⟨p. 39⟩for an Ebenezer, so, we may Erect many a Great Stone of ABEL, that is to say, We may write, MOURNING and SORROW, upon the Condition of the Town in various Examples. Now, from the Stones of Abel, we will a little gather what we should wish to write upon the Stones of our Ebenezer.
We read, in 1 Sam. 6.18. concerning, The Great Stone of Abel. Some say, That Adam Erected that Stone, as a Grave stone for his Abel, and wrote that Epi•aph upon it, Here was poured out the Blood of the Righteous ABEL. I know nothing of This, The Names, I know, differ in the Original; But as we may Erect many a Stone