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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.
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.
The Second Thing for which I move, is, That all Frauds in our Dealings of all sorts, may be the Abomination of all that have any thing to do in the Market-Place. All such Things as by the Irregular & Inordinate Love of Gold, men are too often betrayed into! Of the various Method•, wherein men Deal Dishonest•y with one another, in the Market-Place, and particularly, False Weights and Measures, we read, Deut. 25.16. All that do such things, and all that do Unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God. May they Likewise, and Therefore, be an Abomination unto you, O People of the LORD.
The Second Thing for which I move, is, That all Frauds in our Dealings of all sorts, may be the Abomination of all that have any thing to do in the Market-Place. All such Things as by the Irregular & Inordinate Love of Gold, men are too often betray'd into! Of the various Method•, wherein men Deal Dishonesty with one another, in the Market-Place, and particularly, False Weights and Measures, we read,