A50162:13
Small offers towards the service of the tabernacle in the wilderness four discourses accommodated…
Small offers towards the service of the tabernacle in the wilderness four discourses accommodated unto the designs of practical godliness : preached partly at Boston, partly at Charleston / by Cotton Mather ; published by a gentleman lately restored from threatening sickness as a humble essay to serve the interest of religion, in gratitude unto God for his recovery.
Boston: printed by R. Pierce, 1689
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.
THE GOOD MANS RESOLUTION.
Josh. 24. 15. But as for ME and MY HOUSE we will serve the Lord.
Josh. 24. 15. But as for MEE and MY HOVSE we will serve the Lord.
SECT. I.
NEVER was there in this world a People more obliged or encouraged unto the Service of the Great God, than we the New-English Israel are. The God of Heaven is Our God, and it becomes us to Fear Him; our Fathers God, and how much ought we to worship Him? To serve God was the very Errand which we were brought into this Wilderness upon; and has hitherto been both our Glo-Glory & our Defence. That we now grow so dull and cold in this, we may write an Ichabod upon all our enjoyments, and therein see our Chariots ⟨p. 2⟩and our Horse-men gone. To Revive the Decayed Service of God among us, would be to reduce us into that Favour and Friendship of him who was The Hope of our Fathers, which would make us happy enough to refute all the Lies of our Enemies. Thus would God the Lord speak peace unto us. Thus would Salvation be nigh to us, and Glory dwell in our Land.