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Theopolis Americana: An Essay On The Golden Street Of The Holy City (1710), Cotton Mather, Reiner Smolinski , Editor
Theopolis Americana: An Essay On The Golden Street Of The Holy City (1710), Cotton Mather, Reiner Smolinski , Editor
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Theopolis Americana: An Essay on the Golden Street of the Holy City was published in Boston in 1710. It is based on a sermon delivered to the Massachusetts General Assembly on May 9, 1709, by Cotton Mather (1663–1728) who was then (along with his father Increase Mather) pastor of the Second or Old North Church in Boston. The work is an extended interpretation of Revelations 21.21: “The street of the city was pure gold.” Mather makes a twofold application of the verse—“publishing” (as he says) “A TESTIMONY against the CORRUPTIONS of the Market-Place. With Some Good HOPES of Better Things …