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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.
When the Jews built their Houses, they still had their Gnalijoth, their [Greek or Hebrew], their Upper Chambers in them. There was always a Room, in the Upper part of the House, which they set apart for Sacred Employments; It was their Oratory, and they had in it a Window, which they called, Gods Window, opening towards the Temple. Here Daniel waited upon God; Here Hezekiah lay Sick; Paul took this Room to Preach in, when Eutichus fell, 'tis probable, from that very Window. Even the Wickedest men among them, would not have an House without such a Room and such a Window in the Room; Hence the Lord said of one, in Jer. 22.14. Woe to him, that saith, I will build me a wide House, and large Upper Chambers, and cutteth him out Windows there. But now, that which is to be urged upon us, in these Days, when Holiness of Places is abolished, is this; Let every Room of our Houses, in some sort or other, be the Lords.
When the Jews built their Houses, they still had their Gnalijoth, their 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, their Upper Chambers in them. There was alwayes a Room, in the Upper part of the House, which they set apart for Sacred Employments; It was their Oratory, and they had in it a Window, which they called, Gods Window, opening towards the Temple. Here Daniel waited upon God; Here Hezekiah lay Sick; Paul took this Room to Preach in, when Eutichus fell, 'tis probable, from that very Window. Even the Wickedest men among them, would not have an House without such a Room and such a Window in the Room; Hence the Lord said of one, in Jer. 22.14. Wo to him, that saith, I will build me a wide House, and large Upper Chambers, and cutteth him out Windows there. But now, that which is to be urged upon us, in these Dayes, when Holiness of Places is abolished, is this; Let every Room of our Houses, in some sort or other, be the Lords.
III. Our Tabernacles must not be Prayerless ⟨p. 65⟩