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D. APPENDIX D.
[Page 39.]
Extracts from the Address to the Public, in the first New England
Weekly Journal, March 20, 1727.
"This may serve as a Notification that a Select number of Gentlemen,
who have had the Happiness of a liberal Education, and some
of them considerably improv'd by their Travels into distant Countries;
are now concerting some Regular Schemes for the Entertainment
of the ingenious Reader, and the Encouragement of Wit &
Politeness; and may in a very short time, open upon the Publick a
variety of pleasing and profitable Speculations."
"The whole world rings of what has been lately done and is now
doing in Poland (where the Protestants were once perhaps Ten times
as many as now they are) & He whose Throne is in Heaven & whose
Eyes behold & whose Eye lids try the Children of Men, is making a
Trial and perhaps a Finishing one!—how far the other Protestants
in Europe will Own them, and Assist and Relieve a Suffering JESUS
in them, and Qualify themselves to stand before the Son of Man,
when he shall from the Flames in the Heavens over them, distinguish
those that shall escape the Flames and shall declare, What ye have
done to mine ye have done to me—
"If we deliberately and with the Frame of Nazianzen endeavour
to read the Book of the Lamentations, and apprehend the present
Sufferings of the Holy People under the Papal Empire in the Terms
of that Book livelily described unto us—we shall have the Sum of
the Matter."
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