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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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But on the other side, There are the Menaces of our God, That if the Iniquities of men are not put away from their Tabernacles, their Tabernacles then shall be ⟨p. 56⟩taken away from them. It is that which the most High God ha's threatened, Let your Sins go, or I will make your Houses go. See Zeph. 1 12, 13. It is Threatened, that God will Deprive us of our Houses, if Iniquity be countenanced in them; and this He can do when He will, by His Fiery Rebukes. We have it Threatened, in Ezek. 16.41. They shall Burn thine Houses with Fire. It is also Threatened, That God will Empty our Houses of us; and this can be done quickly, by Oppression, by Poverty, by Mortality. We have it Threatened, in Isa. 5.9. Many Houses shall be Desolate, even Great and Fair ones, without Inhabitant. Briefly, If we would not have the Great God, issue out a Writ of Ejection upon us, to Turn us out of our Houses, Let us put away Iniquity far from our Tabernacles.
But on the other side, There are the Menaces of our God, That if the Iniquities of men are not put away from their Tabernacles, their Tabernacles then shall be ⟨p. 56⟩taken away from them. It is that which the most High God ha's threatned, Let your Sins go, or I will make your Houses go. See Zeph. 1 12, 13. It is Threatned, that God will Deprive us of our Houses, if Iniquity be countenanced in them; and this He can do when He will, by His Fiery Rebukes. We have it Threatned, in Ezek. 16.41. They shall Burn thine Houses with Fire. It is also Threatned, That God will Empty our Houses of us; and this can be done quickly, by Oppression, by Poverty, by Mortality. We have it Threatned, in Isa. 5.9. Many Houses shall be Desolate, even Great and Fair ones, without Inhabitant. Briefly, If we would not have the Great God, issue out a Writ of Ejection upon us, to Turn us out of our Houses, Let us put away Iniquity far from our Tabernacles.