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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 will state the Rule with one rare Circumstance. Be willing that your Dealings ever should be Transparent-Glass. Keep always a•ive such a se•se as this; The Righteous God, who Loveth Righteousness, looks into all my Dealings. Great GOD, Thou art acquainted with all my Ways. And let your Dealings be such, that if they should be laid open to all your Neighbourhood, you need not be Ashamed of them; Such, that they will bear the Touch-stone, of the Judgment which all men of Honour and Virtue and Probity, would pass upon them.
I will state the Rule with one rare Circumstance. Be willing that your Dealings ever should be Transparent-Glass. Keep always a•ive such a se•se as this; The Righteous God, who Loveth Righteous•ess, looks into all my Dealings. Great GOD, Thou art acquainted with all my Ways. And let your Dealings be such, that if they should be laid open to all your Neighbourhood, you need not be Ashamed of them; Such, that they will bear the Touch-stone, of the Iudgment which all men of Honour and Vertue and Probity, would pass upon them.
This were Pure Gold! Were this Golden Rule generally regarded, there would need no Laws to force men to be Honest; the Courts would have ⟨p. 18⟩but few Causes brought unto them. The Christians which often, often Reflect upon this RULE, and always Conform unto it, verily, They are Golden Ones; God increase the Number of them.
This were Pure Gold! Were this Golden Rule generally regarded, there would need no Laws to force men to be Honest; the Courts would have ⟨p. 18⟩but few Causes brought unto them. The Chris•ians which often, often Reflect upon this RULE, and always Conform unto it, verily, They are Golden Ones; God increase the Number of them.