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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.
I should be very unworthy to stand here▪ if I should be Afraid of Dealing Plainly with you. God and Men d• mand, ⟨p. 13⟩that Plain Dealing be used, when Fair-Dealing is to be insisted on.
I sh•uld be very unworthy to stand here▪ if I should be Afraid of Dealing Plainly with you. God and Men d• mand, ⟨p. 13⟩that Plain Dealing be used, when Fair-Dealing is to be insisted on.
Sirs, NEW-ENGLAND is a Country, that has made a more than ordinary Profession of Religion. Our Profession is Weighed in the Balances of GOD. If there be any thing Defective, in the Honesty of our Dealing with one another, our Profession will have a woeful MENE TEKEL Written upon it. Let a man be never such a Professor and Pretender of Religion, if he be not a Fair-Dealer That Mans Religion is Vain. A Noise about Faith & Repentance, among them that forget Moral Honesty, tis but an Empty Noise. The men are utter Strangers to Faith and Repentance; God will Reject all their Confidences, of their being, The People of God, and they shall not Prosper in them. I have a Commission that Enables me, and Emboldens me, to say among you; Woe, Woe, Woe, to you Professors, and Hypocrites, who can make a Show of this and that Piety and Purity; but can Cheat, and Cousin, and Oppress, and Wrong other ⟨p. 14⟩People in your Dealing with them!
Sirs, NEW-ENGLAND is a Countrey, that has made a more than ordinary Profession of Religion. Our Profession is Weigh'd in the Balances of GOD. If there be any thing Defective, in the Honesty of our Dealing with one another, our Profession will have a woful MENE TEKEL Written upon it. Let a man be never such a Professor and Pretender of Religion, if he be not a Fair-Dealer That Mans Religion is Uain. A Noise about Faith & Repentance, among them that forget Moral Honesty, tis but an Empty Noise. The men are utter Strangers to Faith and Repentance; God will Reject all their Confidences, of their being, The People of God, and they shall not Prosper in them. I have a Commission that Ennables me, and Emboldens me, to say among you; Wo, Wo, Wo, to you Professors, and Hypocrites, who can make a Show of this and that Piety and Purity; but can Cheat, and Cousen, and Oppress, and Wrong other