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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.
The Thing which I am then to Enquire, is; What is to be done, that the Street of our City, may be Pur• Gold? And, What have we to do in our Market-Place, that so our Great SAVIOUR, may Espouse us for, A City of God, and become our Saviour?
The Enquiry shall be answered with Faithful Sayings. Oh! Let the• fin• All Acceptation.
I. Oh! That the Street may b• f•ll of Good Men! Full of Righteous & Holy Ones. It is but an Easy Metonymy, ⟨p. 8⟩to make the Street, signify the Men that fill the Street. Our Street will be Pure Gold, when they that walk in it, are those […] may be called, The Precious Sons of Zio• ▪ Comparable to fine Gold. There is▪ a Work of GRACE, which is wrought by the Holy Spirit of God, in the Minds of His Chosen People. Tis in one word, the Glorious Image of God revived in the Soul. A Good […] in the S•ul, is the Name, which the Sacred Oracles put upon it. This Grace of God is called, Rev. 3.18. Gold tried in the Fire. Yea, Grace is better than Gold. My Friend, It is the very First Essay of Grace, to esteem it so. Oh! take up that Esteem of it; The Gain thereof is better than fine Gold; All the things I can desire, are not to be compared unto it. Of a very Valuable man, we Proverbially say, He is a man wrth his weight in Gold. It may be said so of every man, that has a Work of Grace upon him. Yea, He is a man more Precious than the Golden wedge of Ophir. In the mean time, you know what you Read;