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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.
Fidelity to the cause of Righteousness, obliges me, to take Notice of One thing more.
If there be any English People, who are concerned with our Christianized Indians, but then take advantage of their Ignorance, or their Indigence, or their unchristian Love of the Bottle, to decoy them into their Debt; and then use Indirect and Oppressive ways, to Exact an Unreasonable Satisfaction from them, and Sell them for Servants, or Send them out of their own Country; This Trade, will be a Reproach to our Christianity, and I am sure, it will be Bitterness in the Latter End. Certainly, our Justices will concern themselves to Rebuke and Prevent such Doings, lest the Guilt become so Public, as to provoke the Justice of Heaven to Revenge it, by Indian Depredations.
If there be any English People, who are concerned with our Christianized Indians, but then take advantage of their Ignorance, or their Indigence, or their unchristian Love of the Bottel, to decoy them into their Debt; and then use Indirect and Oppressive wayes, to Exact an Unreasonable Satisfaction from them, and Sell them for Servants, or Send them out of their own Country; This Trade, will be a Reproach to our Christianity, and I am sure, it will be Bitterness in the Latter End. Certainly, our Iustices will concern themselves to Rebuke and Prevent such Doings, lest the Guilt become so Publick, as to provoke the Justice of Heaven to Revenge it, by Indian Depredations.
The Third Thing for which I ⟨p. 24⟩move, is; That there may not be so much as my Tendency to any thing Oppressive or Injurious, in the De•l••gs of the Market-Place. The Thing for which I bring a very pressing Exhortation, is that;