"Choice Carolina Pork and Beef, to be sold at the Warehouse on the South side of the Town Dock, adjoining the Impost office." "A negro woman to be sold by the Printer of this paper; the very best negro woman in town; who has had the small-pox and measles; is as hearty as a horse, as brisk as a bird, and will work like a Beaver." IX. CURIOUS BOSTON LECTURES. BOSTONIAN EBENEZER. There was published in Boston, in 1698, a very small thin volume of 82 pages, 3 × 5 inches, entitled "The Bostonian Ebenezer." "Some Historical Remarks on the State of BOSTON, the _Chief Town of New England_ and of the _English_ AMERICA, with some _agreeable methods_ for Preserving and Promoting, the _Good State_ of THAT, as well as any _other Town_, in the like circumstances." "Humbly offered by a native of Boston." Ezk. 48, 35, "The Name of the City from that day, shall be THE LORD IS THERE." Boston: printed by B. Green and F. Allen, for Samuel Phillips, at the Brick Shop, 1698. This singular little volume contains two lectures. Preceding the first lecture at the top of the page are these lines:-- "THE HISTORY OF BOSTON, Related and Improved. At _Boston_ Lecture 7_d._ 2_m._ 1698." [April 7, 1698.] The remainder of the page is occupied with this preface:-- "Remarkable and memorable, was the Time, when an _Army_ of Terrible _Destroyers_ was coming against one of the _Chief Towns_ in the Land of Israel. God Rescued the _Town_ from the Irresistible Fury and Approach of those Destroyers, by an Immediate Hand of Heaven upon them. Upon that miraculous Rescue of the _Town_, and of the whole Country whose Fate was much enwrapped in it, there follow'd that Action of the Prophet, SAMUEL, which is this Day, to be, with some Imitation Repeated, in the midst of thee, O, BOSTON, _Thou helped of the Lord_." At the head of the next page we have the text,-- I SAM. VII. 12. "Then SAMUEL took a Stone and Set it up, ... and called the Name of it EBENEZER, saying, Hitherto the Lord hath Helped us." Then follows the exordium, in which the preacher says the Thankful Servants of God have used sometimes to erect monuments of stone as durable tokens of their thankfulness:-- "Jacob did so; Joshua did so; and Samuel did so." "The Stone erected by Samuel, with the name of Ebenezer, which is as much as to say, _A Stone of Help_. I know not whether any thing might be _Writt_ upon it; but I am sure, there is one thing to be now _Read_ upon it, by ourselves, in the Text where we find it: Namely, this much, "_That a People whom the God of Heaven hath Remarkably Helped, in their Distresses ought Greatly and Gratefully to acknowledge, what_ =help= _of Heaven they have Received._