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Ecclesia Monilia. The peculiar treasure of the Almighty King opened; and the jewels that…
Ecclesia Monilia. The peculiar treasure of the Almighty King opened; and the jewels that are made up in it, exposed. At Boston lecture, July 14. 1726. Whereof one is more particularly exhibited, in the character of Mrs. Elizabeth Cotton, who was laid up a few days before. : And certain instruments and memorials of piety, written by that valuable & Honourable gentlewoman.
Boston: printed for Daniel Henchman, 1726
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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.
and GOD shall be All in All unto them.
¶ WE may now at length Enquire, What IMPROVEMENT we are to make of these Things.
AND here, One might indeed propose, What Usage the Children of GOD should of Right meet withal; What Respect is due to the Children of GOD, from a World, which, alas, Knows them not. Certainly, If the Glorious GOD looks upon them as His Jewels, the People among whom they sojourn, should not Mal-treat them, and look on them as their Burdens or their Blemishes. No, They really are the Jewels of the Places wherein they are Pilgrims: And all the Citizens of Zion must count them so; Yea, of such an One we read, Psal. XV. 4. He honours them that Fear the Lord. They that have the Fear of GOD conspicuous in them, and labour to Abstain from all Appearance of Evil, and contrive as they have Opportunity to do good unto all; What are these but the Jewels of the Places where they live? The ⟨p. 16⟩People there should honour these, as their Glory, yea, and their Defence,: Not Persecute them with Indignities, and Malignities; Not shut them out, as our Foolish Nation does at this Day many of them, from Capacities to do Good Offices for them. And when these Righteous and Merciful Ones are taken away by Death; and these Godly Ones do cease, and the Faithful fail from among the Children of Men, the People should lay to heart every such Death, and lament it as having their Jewels therein taken from them; Yea, they should speak of such in their Lamentations many Days! But this Advice will be little entertained, by any but such as are also come into the Number and the Temper of the Jewels; For, He that is Right in the way, is an Abomination unto the Wicked!