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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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What Changes have we seen, in point of Religion? It was Noted by Luther, He could never see Good order in the Church, last more than Fifteen years together in the Purity of it. Blessed be God, Religion hath here flourished in the Purity of it, for more than Fifteen years together. But, certainly, the Power of Godliness is now grievously decayed among us. As the Prophet of old Exclaimed, in Joel 1.2. Hear this, ye old men, and give Ear, ye Inhabitants; Ha's this been in your Days: Thus may I say, Hear this, ye old men, that are the Inhabitants of the Town: Can't you Remember, that in your Days, a Prayerful, a Watchful, a Fruitful Christian, and a well Governed Family, was a more common Sight, than it is now in our Days? Can't you Remember, that in your Days, those Abominable Things did not ⟨p. 40⟩Show their Heads, that are now Bare-faced among us? Here then is a Petition to be made unto our God; Lord, Help us to Remember whence we are Fallen, and to Repent, and to Do the First Works.
What Changes have we seen, in point of Religion? It was Noted by Luther, He could never see Good order in the Church, last more than Fifteen years together in the Purity of it. Blessed be God, Religion hath here flourished in the Purity of it, for more than Fifteen years together. But, certainly, the Power of Godliness is now grievously decay'd among us. As the Prophet of old Exclamed, in Joel 1.2. Hear this, ye old men, and give Ear, ye Inhabitants; Ha's this been in your Dayes: Thus may I say, Hear this, ye old men, that are the Inhabitants of the Town: Can't you Remember, that in your Dayes, a Prayerful, a Watchful, a Fruitful Christian, and a well Governed Family, was a more common Sight, than it is now in our Dayes? Can't you Remember, that in your Dayes, those Abominable Things did not ⟨p. 40⟩Show their Heads, that are now Bare-faced among us? Here then is a Petition to be made unto our God; Lord, Help us to Remember whence we are Fallen, and to Repent, and to Do the First Works.