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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 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 ⟨p. 34⟩departed from us. Ah, NEW-ENGLAND; Thy Street will not be Pure Gold; No, 'twill be a filthy Puddle, a nasty Kennel. Yea, the Wild-beasts of the Desert will dwell here; thy Houses will be full of doleful Creatu••••.
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 Bottel came into them. It will soon make us a D•spicable Country. All our Strength will be ⟨p. 34⟩departed from us. Ah, NEW-ENGLAND; Thy Street will not be Pure Gold; No, 'twill be a filthy Puddle, a nasty Kennel. Yea, the Wild-beasts of the Desert will dwell here; thy Houses will be full of doleful Creatu••••.