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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.
Instead of Propounding Laws, to retrench a Mischief, not easy to come at▪ My Proposal is; That this One Observation may be Spread through' the Country, and awfully considered of. Tho' this Liquor may be Useful, at some time, & in some things, yet no Man that uses it constantly will ever be Good for very much. It will infallibly Stunt his Abilities; He will discharge no Office, as he ought to do; It will Besot him, or, at least very much Flatten him, and make him very little better, than a mere Good for nothing. Take him from the Bottle, for the STATE, or for the CHURCH, or for the FIELD, […] be a Poor Tool; God will do little by him; he'll never be Excellent. When a man stands a Candidate for any Preferment, I move, That it may be known, whether he be a Friend of ⟨p. 35⟩the Bottle, or no? That which adds to the Horror, is; Tis very Seldom known, •hat any one Habituated unto the use of the Bottle, ever is Recovered from it; The Depraved Stomach will crave and •ave after it, insatiably!
Instead of Propounding Laws, to retrench a Mischief, not easy to come at▪ My Proposal is; That this One Observation may be Spred thro' the Country, and awfully considered of. Tho' this Liquor may be Useful, at some time, & in some things, yet no Man that uses it constantly will ever be Good for very much. It will infallibly Stunt his Abilities; He will discharge no Office, as he ought to do; It will Besot him, or, at least very much Flatten him, and make him very little better, than a meer Good for nothing. Take him from the Bottel, for the STATE, or for the CHURCH, or for the FIELD, 〈…〉 be a Poor Tool; God will do little by him; hee'l never be Excellent. When a man stands a Candidate for any Preferment, I move, That it may be known, whether he be a Friend of ⟨p. 35⟩the Bottel, or no? That which adds to the Horror, is; Tis very Seldom known, •hat any one Habituated unto the use of the Bottel, ever is Recovered from it; The Depraved Stomach will crave and •ave after it, insatiably!