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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.
O Lovely Work! O Matchless Work! A Work, which for ever changes into Gold, the Metal which it is wrought upon! There are some, who often Examine themselves, Whether such a Work be produced in them. Oh! Let every one of us do so! My Friend, Thou art yet a Stranger to the Work, if thou do it not. But the Issue and Re••lt of th• Examination sometimes is tha•; Job. 23.10. When He hath Tried me, I shall come forth as Gold.
O Lovely Work! O Matchless Work! A Work, which for ever changes into Gold, the Metal which it is wro't upon! There are some, who often Examine themselves, Whether such a Work be produced in them. Oh! Let every one of us do so! My Friend, Thou art yet a Stranger to the Work, if thou do it not. But the Issue and Re••lt of th• Examination sometimes is tha•; Job. 23.10. When He hath Tried me, I shall come forth as Gold.
And now; the Street of the CITY, is Pure Gold, when the Street ⟨p. 11⟩i• filled with Regener••eChristi••s; with men that have the Grace of GOD, shi•ing in them. O Golden City; where the Angels of God may look down on the Market-Place, and say, There is a Glorious Work of GOD on the Souls of the People that are walking there. The Neapolitan Poet sings of his Beautiful City N plus, It was doubtless dropped down fr•m Heaven The Inclinations of the Citizens, in so near a Neighbourhood of the laming Vesuvio too; would make one fear, lest it ere long drop down into Hell! But how much rather may the Elegy of an Hevl Original be ascribed, where the Citizens are generally Bound for Heaven! Oh Hly SPIRIT of God and of Grace; Me thy Sanctifying Work very frequent among us Thou, Thu art He, who Leadest into a Land of Rectitude! Oh! Let our People generally breathe after this Work; Do so […] it; Get it; O all ye People […] one of you!