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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It is Written in JOB XXII.23. If thou Return to the Almighty, thou shalt be Built up; Thou shalt put away Iniquity, far from thy Tabernacles.
IT is Reported, as the Special and Signal Favour of God, unto His People, in Exod. 1.20, 21. The People multiplied, and He made Them [that is, the People, for the word is in the Masculine Gender,] Houses: Which Favour of God in the nearest and strictest sense wherein that expression is commonly used, is not only most Mercifully Vouchsafed, but almost Miraculously continued, ⟨p. 45⟩unto us who now Compose this Assembly. Our Gracious God ha's given us Houses, wherein we Enjoy the Comforts of Life, Covered and Sheltered from foreign Injuries; Yea, and we have the Houses of our Gracious God also set open unto us, without the Liberties whereof, I hope, we should not find our selves able to Taste the Comforts of our own. Let it not be thought Unseasonable, I am sure, it should not be Unprofitable, for us to hear in the House of God at this Time, some Singular Things, wherein the Welfare of our own is more than a little concerned.
IT is Reported, as the Special and Signal Favour of God, unto His People, in Exod. 1.20, 21. The People multiplied, and He made Them [that is, the People, for the word is in the Masculine Gender,] Houses: Which Favour of God in the nearest and strictest sense wherein that expression is commonly used, is not only most Mercifully Vouchsafed, but almost Miraculously continued, ⟨p. 45⟩unto us who now Compose this Assembly. Our Gracious God ha's given us Houses, wherein we Enjoy the Comforts of Life, Covered and Sheltered from forreign Injuries; Yea, and we have the Houses of our Gracious God also set open unto us, without the Liberties whereof, I hope, we should not find our selves able to Tast the Comforts of our own. Let it not be thought Unseasonable, I am sure, it should not be Unprofitable, for us to hear in the House of God at this Time, some Singular Things, wherein the Welfare of our own is more than a little concerned.