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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.
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 ⟨p. 14⟩People in your Dealing with them!
It is true, • must believe, that New-England is not worse than other Places; There is more Ill-Dealing, I believe, […] most other Places. Men will say so, that speak Unpassionately and Impartially, and that knows this Wicked World. But, O NEW-ENGLAND; There are a Thousand Reasons, why thou shouldest be Better than Other Places; A more Glorious Land of Uprightness! And it must be Acknowledged, That there have been Instances of Ill-Daling among us, which have given horrid Scandal; Never, Never can the […] People make a Reparation to their Country, for the Scndel and Censure and Reproach they have brought […] it. O All you Lovers of Truth; […] with me this Day, in a Detesta of their Evil Doings; And as the […] of God, rent his Garments, and […] to his Knees, and sread out his […] the Lord his God, when […] of some Evil Doings among […] with him;