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Theopolis Americana. An essay on the golden street of the holy city: publishing, a…
Theopolis Americana. An essay on the golden street of the holy city: publishing, a testimony against the corruptions of the market-place. With some good hopes of better things to be yet seen in the American world. In a sermon, to the General Assembly of the Massachusett-Province in New-England. 3 d. 9 m. 1709. : [Five lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1710
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.
It will be impossi••e, that the Effect of the Essays used, by Men f•lled with the SPIRIT of CHRIST, and able to do more than all that was done in the Primitive Times, [For, When He gi•es the Wo•d, Great wi•• be the Army of them that s• publish it!] Should not be, a conquest of America, ten thousand times more glorious, than all that ever any Cor•ez pretended unto; The Kingdom here will be the L•rds, and the Lord will be Governor •mong the Nations. When the Holy SPIRIT of God, that River, the Streams whereof are t• M•ke glad the City of God, shall, as He will, Run down into, and thorough the World and make the World become a Watere• Garden, and an E•en for the Lord from Hea•••, and •od shall dwell with me• ▪ by His Holy spirit marvellously Poss•• sing, and Purifying, and Enlightening ⟨p. 50⟩of them; can you think, that America, shall be nothing but M•ery Places and Marishes, given to Salt? By no means. O wide Atlantic, Thou ••alt not stand in the way as any Hindrance of those Communications!]
It will be impossi••e, that the Effect of the Essayes used, by Men f•lled with the SPIRIT of CHRIST, and able to do more than all that was done in the Primitive Times, [For, When He gies the Wod, Great wi be the Army of them that s blish it!] Should not be, a conquest of America, ten thousand times more glorious, than all that ever any Corez pretended unto; The Kigdo here will be the Lrds, and the Lord will be Governour mong the Nations. When the Holy SPIRIT of God, that River, the Streams whereof are t Mke glad the City of God, shall, as He will, Run down into, and thorough the Worl and make the World become a Watere Gardn, and an Een for the Lord from Hea, and od shall dwell with me by His Holy pirit mrvellously Poss sing, and Purifying, and Enlightening