The present state of New-England. Considered in a discourse on the necessities and advantages…

I could not altogether hold my peace at this time, without observing, that we have as many Duties as we hav• Objects to be concerned with. But as one of the Objects which we […] have before us, is, The People of God placed in very terrible Distress, and Danger; thus among the Duties then expected from us, none of the least Remarkable and Considerable is, The venturing of our All, in the service of that holy People. Such was the Object, and such the Duty which our Text refers unto. The people of God, had their All now just going to be gone, and a great person is here called upon to venture All, for the service of this People that were thus Expiring.

I could not altogether hold my peace at this time, without observing, that we have as many Duties as we hav• Objects to be concern•d with. But as one of the Objects which we 〈…〉 have before us, is, The People of God placed in very terrible Distress, and Danger; thus among the Duties then expected from us, none of the least Remarkable and Considerable is, The venturing of our All, in the service of that holy People. Such was the Object, and such the Duty which our Text refers unto. The people of God, had their All now just going to be gone, and a great person is here called upon to venture All, for the service of this People that were thus Expiring.

The words now read, are a message sent by a Renowned Mordecai, to the Empress of the World. The whole Book of Esther is a commentary upon one Verse in the seventeenth of Exodus; and that part of it, which we are now upon, claims a particular s•are in the Exposition. But we must Preface our Discourse upon it, with a few, and but a few ⟨p. 3⟩Remarks upon the blessed Mordecai, that we may feel whereabouts we are. Know then that Mordecai was a Famous, an Aged, and an Holy Jew. He had been carried into Captivity, with Jeconiah, above seventy years before. And he Returned to, and Resided at Jerusalem, till the work of the Temple received its unhappy interruption: but then he Retired that he might serve his People in the Court of Ahasuerus (who was also caled Artaxerxes ) there: A very laudable Example! 'twas the effect and effort of a mst nbl generosity, […] worthy Man, whn hs opportunities to Do good were shut up at home, thus to expose himself unto all the Temptations of a Princes Court, that he might there be serviceable to the People of God.