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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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It was of old Required, concerning an House, which had the Leprosy Spreading and Fretting on it, in Lev. 14.45. The Priest shall break down the House, the Stones of it, and the Timber thereof, and all the Mortar of the House. What that Plague of Leprosy was, we do not in this Part and Age of the World seem to understand; if it were not a Plague peculiar unto Canaan, perhaps it means an Infection in the Walls of an House, from whence the Inhabitants might be in Hazard of catching the Leprosy. But this may be said in Allusion hereunto; I• you keep any ⟨p. 59⟩Bad Orders in your Houses, I must come unt• you, with such Language, as was then directed, It seems to me, there is, as it were a Plague in the House. Do not now stand asking of me, what I mean by Bad Orders. Ask your sober, honest, industrious Neighbours; or ask your own Consciences; They will tell you, What Bad Orders are. But Oh! Get thy House cleared of that Plague which is to be seen in the Bad Orders of it; Lest our Lord Jesus Christ the High Priest of the Creation, do break down that House, and, it may be burn thee out of such an House.
It was of old Required, concerning an House, which had the Leprosy Spreading and Fretting on it, in Lev. 14.45. The Priest shall break down the House, the Stones of it, and the Timber thereof, and all the Mortar of the House. What that Plague of Leprosy was, we do not in this Part and Age of the World seem to understand; if it were not a Plague peculiar unto Canaan, perhaps it means an Infection in the Walls of an House, from whence the Inhabitants might be in Hazzard of catching the Leprosy. But this may be said in Allusion hereunto; I• you keep any ⟨p. 59⟩Bad Orders in your Houses, I must come unt• you, with such Language, as was then directed, It seems to me, there is, as it were a Plague in the House. Do not now stand asking of me, what I mean by Bad Orders. Ask your sober, honest, industrious Neighbours; or ask your own Consciences; They will tell you, What Bad Orders are. But Oh! Get thy House cleared of that Plague which is to be seen in the Bad Orders of it; Lest our Lord Jesus Christ the High Priest of the Creation, do break down that Huse, and, it may be burn thee out of such an House.