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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
THE GOOD MANS RESOLUTION. › Section 15 › Exception 3: The Third Exception.
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The Third Exception.
A Third person will urge this against it.
I want Abilities to manage this work, my Parts and Gifts are too mean to go through it.
I want Abilities to manage this work, my Parts and Gifts are too mean to go thro it.
To this I answer; God will Accept you, tho• you do it meanly. The Prophet made this Apology for himself, in Jer. 1. 6. Ah! Lord God, I cannot speak. But God answered, Say not so. Tho you have but one Talent, yet let it not lie by. Though you have only Goats hair, or Badgers skins, yet employ them for the use of the Tabernacle. The Apostle tells the Hebrews, You need one to teach you the first principles of the Oracles of God; yet unto them he said, Exhort one another.
To this I answer; God will Accept you, tho you do it meanly. The Prophet made this Apology for himself, in