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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.
SECT. III.
WE have diverse Propositions now before us, to discourse upon. The First of them is this.
VVE have diverse Propositions now before us, to discourse upon. The First of them is this.
PROP. I.
The whole Duty of man, is contained in the true Service of God. Both in the First Covenant, and in the New Covenant which God has made with man, there is a Duty which man must pay to God. In the First Covenant this Duty was to be paid in a way of meritorious Obedience; in the New Covenant, this Duty is to be paid in a way of ingenuous Gratitude. But the Service of God, this ever comprises all our Duty in it. It is the same that the Wise man refers unto, in Eccl. 12. 13. Fear God and keep His commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. There are diverse comprehensive and synonymous Terms, by which our Duty to God is expressed in the Scripture of Truth. Our ⟨p. 4⟩