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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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First, I suppose, We are all sensible, That for us to Loose our Houses by any Disaster whatsoever, would be a very terrible Calamity; Oh! It would be a Judgment of God, wherein the Anger of God, would be seen written with Fiery Characters. If by an Accident, or by an Enemy, our Houses be Laid in Desolations, ⟨p. 46⟩every Roar of the Raging Flames, every Crack of the Tumbling Timbers, every Downfall of the Undermined Walls, and every Jangle of the Bells then tolling the Funeral of those Houses, would loudly utter that voice, in Deut. 32.22. A Fire is Kindled in the Anger of God! It were a dismal Thing for our Houses becoming too Hot for us, to say, Be gone; ye sinful Inhabitants, Be gone; you shall never Eat, or Sleep, or Talk, or Pray, in us, any more; and for our Consorts & Children with us, to be Stripped in a few Hours, of all that we have been getting for many years, and be turned Shiftless and Helpless out of Doors, to Lodge Next Door unto Beggary. A Town so Afflicted, may have this Lamentable Account given of them, in Isa. 42.25. The Lord hath poured on them the Fury of His Anger, and it hath set them on Fire round about.
First, I suppose, We are all sensible, That for us to Loose our Houses by any Disaster whatsoever, would be a very terrible Calamity; Oh! It would be a Judgment of God, wherein the Anger of God, would be seen written with Fiery Characters. If by an Accident, or by an Enemy, our Houses be Laid in Desolations, ⟨p. 46⟩every Roar of the Raging Flames, every Crack of the Tumbling Timbers, every Downfal of the Undermined Walls, and every Jangle of the Bells then tolling the Funeral of those Houses, would loudly utter that voice, in Deut. 32.22. A Fire is Kindled in the Anger of God! It were a dismal Thing for our Houses becoming too Hot for us, to say, Be gone; ye sinful Inhabitants, Be gone; you shall never Eat, or Sleep, or Talk, or Pray, in us, any more; and for our Consorts & Children with us, to be Stript in a few Hours, of all that we have been getting for many years, and be turn'd Shiftless and Helpless out of Doors, to Lodge Next Door unto Beggary. A Town so Afflicted, may have this Lamentable Account given of them, in