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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.
To the HONOURABLE Judge SEWALL.
SIR,
DEDICATIONS use to be Adulations. Flattery has, for the most part, so depraved them, that they are become a trifling and an useless Formality. Yea, the Epistle sometimes is, A Troubled Fountain, and a corrupt Spring.
I address you with a SERMON; but my Address will not have the least Alloy, of that Common Evil in it.
I mention your Name on this Occasi••• ▪ 'Tis for Two Reasons; And if I were on the Rack, I should confess no more.