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Zealots. A zeal for the house of God, blown up, in a sermon unto…Zelotes. A zeal for the house of God, blown up, in a sermon unto…
Zealots. A zeal for the house of God, blown up, in a sermon unto an assembly of Christians; in the south-part of Boston. On 8. d. XI. m. 1716,17. : A day of prayer kept by them, at their first entrance into a new edifice erected by them, for the public worship of God our Saviour. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. ; [Two lines from St. Ambrose]Zelotes. A zeal for the house of God, blown up, in a sermon unto an assembly of Christians; in the south-part of Boston. On 8. d. XI. m. 1716,17. : A day of prayer kept by them, at their first entrance into a new edifice erected by them, for the publick worship of God our Saviour. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. ; [Two lines from St. Ambrose]
Boston: printed by J. Allen for Nicholas Boone, 1717
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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 CITY of BOSTON, [for its being a […] Populous Town, and the Head of adjacent Villages, is enough to challenge the Denomination of a CITY for it;] has had a Remarkable Smile of GOD our SAVIOUR upon it, which you invite us this Day to take notice of. Tho' Desolations by Fire, among other Impediments to the growth of the Place, laid the Two Eldest of our Meeting-Houses in ashes, and so the Oldest we have standing is Two or Three less than Fifty years Old, yet we may now see no less than TEN Houses, wherein Christians hold their Public and Weekly Assemblies, for the Worship of GOD our SAVIOUR. And some of them very Capacious Edifices; none of them Contemptible.
The CITY of BOSTON, [for its being a 〈…〉 Populous Town, and the Head of adjacent Villages, is enough to challenge the Denomination of a CITY for it;] has had a Remarkable Smile of GOD our SAVIOUR upon it, which you invite us this Day to take notice of. Tho' Desolations by Fire, among other Impediments to the growth of the Place, laid the Two Eldest of our Meeting-Houses in ashes, and so the Oldest we have standing is Two or Three less than Fifty years Old, yet we may now see no less than TEN Houses, wherein Christians hold their Publick and Weekly Assemblies, for the Worship of GOD our SAVIOUR. And some of them very Capacious Edifices; none of them Contemptible.
Of these Assemblies, (including that at Romney Marsh,) there are no less than SEVEN, [Oh! May ⟨p. 42⟩they be so many Golden Candlesticks!] which are Churches of the UNITED BRETHREN, keeping in the Ways of our New-English Churches. Among these, there are some Differences in some small Circumstantials and Modalities, which are not the least Interruption unto the Comforts of mutual Communion. And tho' no Parochial Bounds are settled, but the People belonging to each Live intermixed with one another, this also breeds no manner of Disturbance in the World.
Of these Assemblies, (including that at Romny Marsh,) there are no less than SEVEN, [Oh! May ⟨p. 42⟩