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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.
I will go on •o say. 'Tis a Thing of an Evil Tendency, for People to Live beyond themselves, or to take it for gr•nted, that they must brave […] out with such a Table, or with such an ••bit, tho' they have not wherewithal to bear the Expenses of it; They won't take in a R•ef of their Sails, tho' they are on the point of Suffering Ship-wreck; tho' they must borrow, and defraud, •nd Whi••le, •nd ••rt other People, to Support their Vanity. How contrary, How •ontr•ry, is thi•, to that Poverty of Spirit, which must be found in all, that wo•ld ha•e a claim to a part in the Golden City!
I will go on •o say. 'Tis a Thing of an Evil Te•dency, for People to Live •eyond t•emselves, or to take it for gr•nted, that they must brave 〈…〉 out with such a Tabl•, or with such an ••bit, tho' they have not wherewithal to bear the Expences of it; They won't take in a R•ef of their Sails, tho' they are on the point of Suffering Ship-wreck; tho' they must borrow, and defr•ud, •nd Whi••le, •nd ••rt other People, to Support their Vanity. How contrary, How ontrry, is thi, to that Poverty of Spiri, which must be found in all, that wold hae a claim to a part in the Goldn City!