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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.
There was a Street in the old City of R•me, named, •icus Sobrius, The Sober Street. The Reason of the Name was, because there was not one drinking House in the Street Ah, my dear Country; shall we not see a •olden Street of Jerusalem in thee? But, then it must be a Sober St••et.
There was a Street in the old City of R•me, named, •icus Sobrius, The Sober Street. The Reason of the Name was, because there was not one •rinking House in the Street Ah, my dear Country; shall we not see a •olden Street of Ierus•l•m in thee? But, then it must be a Sober St••et.
You must not wonder, to see the Flame, in which I •all upon you. The dreadful, the dreadful Dispensations of God, have brought us into fearful Apprehensions, How far this Country may come to be ravaged by Po•ish Idolaters. Tis with a trembling Soul, that I must Speak, what is now to be Spoken; If once this become a Country of Drunken Protestants ▪ we can have little to plead with the Holy Son of God, why it should not be so; little to plead, why we should n•t fall before Popish Idolaters; little to plead, why the Laodicean Fate should not come upon us. But, —
You must not wonder, to see the Flame, in which I •all upon you. The dreadful, the dreadful Dispensations of God, have brought us into fearful Apprehensions, How far this Country may come to be ravaged by Poish Idolaters. Tis with a trembling Soul, that I must Speak, what is now to be Spoken; If once this become a Country of Drunken Protestants we can have little to plead with the Holy Son of God, why it should not be so; little to plead, why we should nt fall before Popish Idlaters; little to plead, why the Laodicean Fate should not come upon us. But, —