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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.
NEW-ENGLAND is now blessed with Judges in our C•ur•s of Judic […], of whom there is nothing Suspected, that may Expose th•• Tabernacle• to be Consumed by the Fire of the Divine Indignation. But, My FATHERS, while we Bless God for His Grace to You, in that thing, We will make it our Prayer, That a marvellous Pr• dence, and Patience, •nd zeal for nothing but a God-like •us•ice and Goo• ness, and a particular Tenderness f•r the W•do• and the Orphan, and for them that h•ve •o H•lp•r ▪ may always be interwoven, into all your Administrations▪ that you ma• have a […] always clothing of you▪ But […] ca•e be taken, that all Officers und•• ⟨p. 28⟩you, may be Restrained from the Iniquity, which your Souls would so much abominate: and which will Plunge their Souls into a •rime for which there can be no Rep•nt••ce accepted, without Restitution, and therefore▪ 'tis rarely, rarely Repented of! You must give me leave to t•ll you, There may be danger, lest that Iniquity grow upon us; and lest the Sinners do multiply, whereof every man that Lves his own Soul, will cry out, Oh! Let not my Soul be gathered with them! No care, I say, No care can be too much, to procure that Felicity;