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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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I. If we would Comfortably Enjoy our Tabernacles, Let us particularly Put away those Iniquities, which have a particular Tendency to provoke, and procure our being Put out of our Tabernacles. The Jews thought they consulted the safety of their Houses, when they Sought, and Cast, all their Leaven out of their Houses. Let us in like manner Search our Houses, for every Iniquity, which may be like Leaven in them, and let us, Away with it, Away with it all! Indeed, Every Iniquity is pernicious, not only to the Heart, but also to the House that gives a Lodging thereunto; and therefore we should fall out with all Iniquity. If any one should maliciously Burn us out of House and Home, ⟨p. 58⟩we should never Endure the sight of such a Wretch; but see the Law of Death Executed on him. Why Sin, I say unto you, Sin would be such an Incendiary: it is said, in Isa. 9.18. Wickedness, burneth as Fire. But there are some Iniquities, which are more especially, and certainly, and frequently, as Fire balls upon the Houses wherein they are committed; and the Counsel thereupon unto us is, Oh! Turn those unfruitful works of Darkness out of Doors, Lest we be our selves Turned out of Doors for the sake thereof.
I. If we would Comfortably Enjoy our Tabernacles, Let us particularly Put away those Iniquities, which have a particular Tendency to provoke, and procure our being Put out of our Tabernacles. The Jews tho•ght they consulted the safety of their Houses, when they Sought, and Cast, all their Leven out of their Houses. Let us in like manner Search our Houses, for every Iniquity, which may be like Leven in them, and let us, Away with it, Away with it all! Indeed, Every Iniquity is pernicious, not only to the Heart, but also to the House that gives a Lodging thereunto; and therefore we should fall out with all Iniquity. If any one should maliciously Burn us out of House and Home, ⟨p. 58⟩we should never Endure the sight of such a Wretch; but see the Law of Death Executed on him. Why Sin, I say unto you, Sin would be such an Incendiary: it is said, in Isa. 9.18. Wickednes•, burneth as Fire. But there are some Iniquities, which are more especially, and certainly, and frequently, as Fire balls upon the Houses wherein they are committed; and the Counsil thereupon unto us is, Oh! Turn those unfruitful works of Darkness out of Dors, Lest we be our selves Turn'd out of Doors for the sake thereof.