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

A Strange Providence had exalted a Kinswoman of Mordecai's, whose Name was Esther, to be the Queen of the Persian Empire; and she must be the Instrument of the preservation. ⟨p. 6⟩In order hereunto, we find in our Cont••t, a very solemn Message of her Uncle to her; in which we may Contemplate,

A Strange Provid•nce had exalted a Kinswoman of Mordecai's, whose Name was Esther, to be the Queen of the Persian Empire; and she must be the Instrument of the preservation. ⟨p. 6⟩In order hereunto, we find in our Cont••t, a very solemn Message of her Uncle to her; in which we may Contemplate,

First, a Duty. The Duty pressed is, To venture All for the Rescue of them that were the Afflicted People of God. The Thing Enjoined upon Esther was, Go in unto the King, and make Supplication for th• people. This was the only step that could be taken for sa•ing the People of God: but it was one very desperate and perilous. There was a cu•sed and a c•abbed Law among […] which made it capital for any uncalled person to come into the presence of the King, […] it shou•d please His powerful and So••••ign Majesty to Extend His •olden Sceptre, as a Token of a Pardon for that presumption. Wherefore now to push into the presence of the King, was to rush mo•e ev•••ntly upon the point of a Sharp Sword, han of a […] Scete ; it was to azrd the Ls of […]; not only a Crown, but a […] too must be ventured in t. And the […] the Emperor unto Est, could not ut increase her Suspicions and Jalousis […] is Affections began to e […]; whih mde the Undertaken yet more Dubious, Dangerous, and Formde. However, […] this was th Charge of the god […], If All must be […] when the People of