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A vision in the temple. The Lord of Hosts, adored
A vision in the temple. The Lord of Hosts, adored; and the King of Glory proclaimed; on a day of prayer kept (May 10. 1721) at the opening of the New Brick Meeting House in the north part of Boston, by the ministers of the city, with the Society which built it, & this day swarmed into it. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. ; [Two lines from Isaiah]
Boston: printed for Robert Starkey. And sold, 1721
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE LORD JESUS Walking in the midst of the CHURCHES. › USE I.
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.
4. Those who are about Embodying themselves into a Church state; should Endeavour to approve themselves to Christ therein. If they are about to become a Candlestick of the Lord, they should strive to be a Golden one; they should approve themselves to the Lord Jesus in the business before them. So it behoves ⟨p. 31⟩you to do, w•o are the occasion of our thus Assembling at this time.
4. Those who are about Imbodying themselves into a Church state; should Indeavour to approve themselves to Christ therein. If they are about to become a Candlestick of the Lord, they should strive to be a Golden one; they should approve themselves to the Lord Jesus in the business before them. So it behoves ⟨p. 31⟩you to do, w•o are the occasion of our thus Assembling at this time.
To you therefore who have Engaged in the Building of this House, for the worship of God and administrations of his Holy Ordinances; and have in view, the Embodying into a Church state here, to you I would say, 1. Examine your selves about, and be humble for what has been amiss in your proceedings. We are but Stewards of what we possess, we should Employ our Talents, our Estates, all our Abilities as good Stewards of Gods manifold grace 1 Pet. 4.10. Whether we eat or drink, or whatever we do, we should do all to the Glory of God. 1 Cor. 10.31. Well have you had Pure, Sincere aims at the Glory of God, in doing what you have done, and expending the cost you have been at? What you have done in this matter, has it been really a Sacrifice to God; alluding to that