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Boanerges. A short essay to preserve and strengthen the good impressions produced by earthquakes…
Boanerges. A short essay to preserve and strengthen the good impressions produced by earthquakes on the minds of people that have been awakened with them. : With some views of what is to be further and quickly looked for. : Addressed unto the whole people of New-England, who have been terrified with the late earthquakes; and more especially the towns that have had a more singular share in the terrors of them. : [Three lines from I Chronicles]Boanerges. A short essay to preserve and strengthen the good impressions produced by earthquakes on the minds of people that have been awakened with them. : With some views of what is to be further and quickly look'd for. : Address'd unto the whole people of New-England, who have been terrified with the late earthquakes; and more especially the towns that have had a more singular share in the terrors of them. : [Three lines from I Chronicles]
Boston: printed for S. Kneeland, 1727
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.
If we will be Nice at straining of Gnats, I beseech you, let it be Enquired, [Not as if That were one!] What is to be thought about the Cry of DEFRAUDED LABOURERS going up to the Lord of Sabaoth.
If we will be Nice at straining of Gnats, I beseech you, let it be Enquir'd, [Not as if That were one!] What is to be thought about the Cry of DEFRAUDED LABOURERS going up to the Lord of Sabaoth.
Yea, if Things not yet by all Good Men Agreed on, may be spoken of, let it be Enquired, Whether Christians do generally pay to a glorious CHRIST, the Dues which they that would count themselves, the True Sons of Abraham, should be induced easily to Confess, belonging to our Melchizedek? And whether they Devote unto PIOUS USES, that portion of their Income, which the pattern of our Father Jacob, and the precept of the Gospel, has plainly declared for? And whether the SON of ⟨p. 37⟩GOD, be not Robbed, as in a Sacrilege, when this portion is withheld from Him? And whether if this portion were honestly paid unto the LORD, a very small Moiety of it applied where it should be, would not put a stop to the Cry of many DEFRAUDED LABOURERS? But it seems, this is, Not Agreed on. And I know very well, what I say of this matter will be little regarded; But see, whether a perpetual Series and Succession of Impoverishments, and Remarkable ways devised by the Justice of Heaven for it, be not what our Land will be doomed unto. — I have done. Behold the Method for preventing of an Abortion on our Good Impressions, and this unhappy Account of them, We have been in pain, we have brought forth wind, we have not wrought any Deliverance for the Soul that has been going with us.
Yea, if Things not yet by all Good Men Agreed on, may be spoken of, let it be Enquired, Whether Christians do generally pay to a glorious CHRIST, the Dues which they that would count themselves, the True Sons of Abraham, should be induced easily to Confess, belonging to our Melchizedek? And whether they Devote unto PIOUS USES, that portion of their Income, which the pattern of our Father Jacob, and the precept of the Gospel, has plainly declared for? And whether the SON of