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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 the 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. ; [Two lines of Scripture text]The Bostonian Ebenezer. Some historical remarks, on the state of Boston, the chief town of New-England, and of the 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 offer'd, by a native of Boston. ; [Two lines of Scripture text]
Boston: printed by B Green and 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.
Wherewith you are now to be treated, ⟨p. 57⟩What is that Household Religion ▪ or, what are those Cares, and those Acts of Religion, in our Houses, whereby the Comfortable Enjoyment of our Houses, may be Secured unto us?
Wherewith you are now to be treated, ⟨p. 57⟩What is that Houshold Religion ▪ or, what are those Cares, and those Acts of Religion, in our Houses, whereby the Comfortable Enjoyment of our Houses, may be Secured unto us?
In answer hereunto, Let these Faithful Sayings be counted Worthy of all Acceptation with us.
I. If we would Comfortably Enjoy our Tabernacles, Let us particularly Put away those Iniquities, which have a particular Tendency to provoke, and procure our being Put out of our Tabernacles. The Jews thought they consulted the safety of their Houses, when they Sought, and Cast, all their Leaven out of their Houses. Let us in like manner Search our Houses, for every Iniquity, which may be like Leaven in them, and let us, Away with it, Away with it all! Indeed, Every Iniquity is pernicious, not only to the Heart, but also to the House that gives a Lodging thereunto; and therefore we should fall out with all Iniquity. If any one should maliciously Burn us out of House and Home, ⟨p. 58⟩we should never Endure the sight of such a Wretch; but see the Law of Death Executed on him. Why Sin, I say unto you, Si would be such an Incendiary: it is said, in