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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 II.
Upon the Trials of God, good men come forth as gold.
There is that in Gold, which good men may be compared unto. We read in Deut. 1. 1. about the mountains of Dizahab: that is, the Golden mountains; because Gold was probably dug from thence. The Churches of God in the world, are such Mountains of gold. Every true Believer is a rich lump of Gold before the Lord. Of such persons tis said in Lam. 4. 2. They are the precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold. There are diverse properties in Gold, which a good man will have a blessed Resemblance of. I should offer you not Gold, but Hay and stubble if I should read you here a Lecture of Metallogy, or discourse to you all that I could Philosophize about this King of Metals. Let me only touch on a few common Reflections, As now,
There is that in Gold, which good men may be compar'd unto. We read in Deut. 1. 1. about the mountains of Dizahab: that is, the Golden mountains; because Gold was probably dug from thence. The Churches of God in the world, are such Mountains of gold. Every true Believer is a rich lump of Gold before the Lord. Of such persons tis said in