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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 Golden-mouthed Father often inv•igh'd against the Sottish Vice of Swearing: His Hearers asked him, When •e would have done with his Invectives; ⟨p. 33⟩He answered, When you have done Swearing. In my Importunities for a Street of Pure Gold, if I am asked, When I will have done with my Blows upon the Bottle! My Answer is, When I see it broken; When I see, tis universally counted a Shameful thing to be too free with it; When I see People take it, only When, and As, it may be useful to them.
The Golden-mouthed Father often inv•igh'd against the Sottish Vice of Swearing: His Hearers asked him, When •e would have done with his Invectives; ⟨p. 33⟩He answered, When you have done Swearing. In my Importunities for a Street of Pure Gold, if I am asked, When I will have done with my Blows upon the Bottel! My Answer is, When I see it broken; When I see, tis universally counted a Shameful thing to be too free with it; When I see People take it, only When, and As, it may be useful to them.
I don't move, to have the Use of it Banished; but the Abuse and Excess of it. And I most importunately move, That all Sober People throughout the Land, would set themselves to think, What may be done, to have Rum used with more of Moderation?
The French and the Indians have sorely Scourged us; but let it not be thought a Paradox, That one of the Sorest Punishments, which ever did or ever can befall this poor Country, is the Great Esteem, which this Liquor has among us. It makes us Poor; It keeps us Poor; whole Families may curse the Day, that ever the Bottle came into them. It will soon make us a Despicable Country. All our Strength will be