B09511:98
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 beseech you, to Lay up this Admonition with you. If you would Keep any thing, in this World, you must not set your Hearts upon it: and indeed, it is fit that men should keep nothing of this World, which they do set their Hearts ⟨p. 74⟩upon. The way for us, to have our Houses taken away from us, is, to have our Hearts vainly fond of continuing in them. It was therefore an Annual, and a most suitable Ceremony, which the Lord Enjoined upon His People of old; When a Good Harvest had filled their Houses, God ordered them to go out of their Houses; they must then go make Little Tabernacles abroad, and keep the Feast of Tabernacles. Thus did the Lord mind them of their Condition in this World; when they had never so much of this World about them, they must not forget that they were no more than Sojourners in the World. This I say; Tho' we have Houses that we can Feast in, yet Let us have the Temper of a Feast of Tabernacles in us. Let our Hearts be gone out of our Houses, & the Lord will give us, Leave to stay the Longer in them.
I beseech you, to Lay up this Admonition with you. If you would Keep any thing, in this World, you must not set your Hearts upon it: and indeed, it is fit that men should keep nothing of this World, which they do set their Hearts ⟨p. 74⟩upon. The way for us, to have our Houses taken away from us, is, to have our Hearts vainly fond of continuing in them. It was therefore an Annual, and a most suitable Ceremony, which the Lord Enjoined upon His People of old; When a Good Harvest had fill'd their Houses, God ordered them to go out of their Houses; they must then go make Little Tabernacles abroad, and keep the Feast of Tabernacles. Thus did the Lord mind them of their Condition in this World; when they had never so much of this World about them, they must not forget that they were no more than Sojourners in the World. This I say; Tho' we have Houses that we can Feast in, yet Let us have the Temper of a Feast of Tabernacles in us. Let our Hearts be gone out of our Houses, & the Lord will give us, Leave to stay the Longer in them.