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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.
B•t now I have begun, I must balk n••hing. There is a Third Thing to b• earnestly insisted on.
B•t now I have begun, I must balk n••hing. There is a Third Thing to b• •arn•stly insisted on.
III. Sirs, There is a Branch of the Ri••r of Death, which must not Run in the Street. Ah, How will the Golde• City •eas• to be such, and become a very Babel; except that Flood of Iniquity be dried up! A Flood, which the Dr• gone has ca•• out of his Mouth, to devour the Church in the Wilderness! A River, t•e Streams whereof do debauch, do de••le, do destroy the City of our God. Oh! If the Street of the CITY be Pur• Gold, there will be no Reeling there; no Spewing, upon all the Glory. The Bottle must not be the Grand Merchandise of the Market-Place. We r•ad concerning the City of God; Rev. 22.1, 2. There is a Pure River of Water of Life, — in the midst of the Street of it. But, Oh! Let there not be in the midst of our Street, a River that shall carry People down into the Dead Sea, dow• into the Lake of Sodom.