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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.
Proposition. I.
There is a various Trial which the God of Heaven causes to pass upon His people. No Christian can be without his Trials. But there are especially two sorts of Trials which ou• God will subject us all unto. First,
There is a various Tryal which the God of Heaven causes to pass upon His people. No Christian can be without his Tryals. But there are especialy two sorts of Tryals which ou• God will subject us all unto. First,
There are the Trials of Divine Examinations, Which will be critical upon us. Tis said in Psal. 11. 4, 5. The Lords eyes behold, and His eye-lids try the children of men; the Lord sounds (as the French Translation hath it) both the righteous and the wicked. Every man in the world falls under the Notice, and so, under the Trial of the omniscient God. The all-seeing Eyes of God, as it were, Examine us, and His Eye-lids knit themselves for a Scrutiny into our Hearts and lives. The blessed God will pass a Judgment, after a Trial upon us; whether we truly love Him and seek Him, or no. We are told in Psal. 7. 9