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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 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-D•aling among us, which have given horrid Scandal; Never, Never can the […] People make a Reparation to their Country, for the Sc•ndel 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 s•read out his […] the Lord his God, when […] of some Evil Doings among […] with him; Ezra 9.6. […] am ashamed, and I blush, to ⟨p. 15⟩lift up my Fac• unto thee, my G•d. If any professors of Religion have done I•• Things, yet RELIGION▪ What has •hat done? RELIGION sha•l wash her •air Hands, and Abhor your Doings. •e it Proclaimed unto All the Wor•d▪ •ll-Dealings are not at all Countenanced; no, they are vehemently Disallowed, by the Religion of NEW-ENGLAND. We do PROTEST against them, with a transporting Vehemency, and behold with Agony the Blood, and the Gr•ce, of our Great SAVIOUR, abused in them, with most aggravated Violations.