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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.
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. The righteous God trieth the Hearts and the Reins; an Assertion, an Expression, it may be, more than seven times repeated in the Word of God! The Examination and Observation of God, extends it self to the most interior parts of men; the motions of their very Hearts and Reins come under His exactest Cognizance. Every man may so far say after that godly man, in Psal. 17. 3. Lord, thou hast proved my heart, thou hast visited me, thou hast tried me. To use a ⟨p. 88⟩Similitude made Legitimate and Canonical by the Apostle himself, in Heb. 4. 13. The Sacrificing Knife of old, never did penetrate so far into the Bowels of the Creatures it was employed upon; it never laid them so •aked and open, before the standers-by; as the examining Eye of God makes a discovery of what is in our Souls and our ways.
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 ey-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 Tryal of the omniscient God. The all-seeing Eyes of God, as it were, Examine us, and His Ey-lids knit themselves for a Scrutiny into our Hearts and lives. The blessed God will pass a Iudgment, after a Trial upon us; whether we truly love Him and seek Him, or no. We are told in