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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.
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; 1 Thes. 5.22. Abstain from all Appearance of Evil. If any thing Approach to a thing, that Appears an Evil; Sirs, Beware of it! There are Some Ill Things, too frequently done among those who would count themselves greatly Wronged, if they be not thought Good People. But they are things which anon, I am sure, prove a notorious Wrong to many others, that really are Go•d People.
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; 1 Thes. 5.22. Abstain from all Appearance of Evil. If any thing Approac• to a thing, that App•ars an Evil; Sirs, Beware of it! There are Some Ill Things, too frequently done among those who would count themselves greatly Wrong'd, if they be not thought Good People. But they are things which anon, I am sure, prove a notorious Wrong to many others, that really are Go•d Pe•ple.
I will be free with you. There are Crooked Things that cannot be Numbr; I wish, they could be Straitened.