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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
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 TRIED CHRISTIAN. A Discourse delivered, upon Recovery from SICKNESS
The TRYED CHRISTIAN. A Discourse delivered, upon Recovery from SICKNESS
JOB. XXIII. 10. When He hath Tried me, I shall come forth as GOLD.
IOB. XXIII. 10. When He hath Tryed me, I shall come forth as GOLD.
There was a Man in the Land of Arabia, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright. The Church of GOD is enriched with an excellent History, in an elegant Poesy, relating the great Prosperity, the sad Adversity, and strange Recovery of that perfect and upright man. Tis probable, that he was an Edomite, and the very Jobab whom Esau was Great-Grandfather unto; but this I ⟨p. 86⟩am sure of, He was an Israelite indeed! From a Rich and Fair estate, He suddenly became, As poor as Job; and while he was in this poor Condition, his noble Friends gave him their friendly Visits and Respects. Many admirable Dialogues now passed between them; wherein they endeavoured to Accuse and Convince him of some remarkable Iniquity, as the Cause of his Calamity; and he laboured to vindicate himself; to assert his own Integrity and Sincerity.