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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.
And so well, Sirs, do I wish to your Voyages, that I would Entreat you, that for the Manning of your Vessels in this Evil Time, there may be no such Unfair Methods used, as may Entail Disasters upon them.
And so well, Sirs, do I wish to your Voyages, that I would Entreat you, that for the Man•ing of your Vessels in this Evil Time, there may be no such Unfair Methods used, as may Entail Disasters •pon them.
There is one sort of Trade also, about which my way of Addressing you, shall be by Reciting the words of the Excellent BAXTER. They are these; [His Christian Directory. Part II. Chap. 14▪]
To go as Pirates, and Catch up poor Negroes, or People of another Land, that have never forfeited Life, or Liberty, and to make them Slaves, ⟨p. 22⟩and Sell them, is One of the worst kinds of Thievery in the World; and such Persons are to be taken for the common Enemies of Mankind; and they that buy them, and use them as Beasts, for their mere Commodity, and betray, or destroy, or neglect their Souls, are fitter to be called, Incarnate Devils, than Christians, tho' they be no Christians whom they so Abuse.
To go as Pirates, and Catch up poor N•groes, or People of another Land, that have never forfeited Life, or Liberty, and to make them Slaves, ⟨p. 22⟩and Sell them, is One of the worst kinds of Thievery in the World; and such Persons are to be taken for the common Enemies of Mankind; and they that buy them, and use them as Beasts, for their meer Commodity, and betray, or destroy, or eglect their Souls, are fitter to be called, Incarnate Devils, than Christians, tho' they be no Christians whom they so Abuse.