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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.
Again▪ Gold is a Ductile Metal. Tis marvellously extensible when beaten into Leaves; twere incredible to tell how far one Grain of Gold may be extended and continued. So dense and compacted, and united, are the parts of it, that an Ounce of it may be beaten (I suppose) into a Thousand Leaves. Thus a good Man can be Drawn forth into large Expressions of goodness and virtue. It was said by such an one in Psal. 11. 3. My goodness Extendeth. He extends his Piety, his Charity, he extends his lnfluence far and near; and he is a Diffusive good.
Again▪ Gold is a Ductil Metal. Tis marvellously extensible when beaten into Leaves; twere incredible to tell how far one Grain of Gold may be extended and continued. So dense and compacted, and united, are the parts of it, that an Ounce of it may be beaten (I suppose) into a Thousand Leaves. Thus a good Man can be Drawn forth into large Expressions of goodness and vertue. It was said by such an one in Psal. 11. 3. My goodness Extendeth. He extends his Piety, his Charity, he extends his lnfluence far and near; and he is a Diffusive good.
Once more, Gold is a Beautiful metal. 'Tis called, Aurum, for that very cause; ab Aura, i. e. a Splendour. Tis a shining and glittering thing; and hence things that are very splendid, are said to be covered with •ellow Gold. For this reason, an Hook of it once catched […] by the Lust of the Eye. Thus, a good man has a transcendent Beauty in him. To such an one, twas said in Cant. 6. 4. Thou art Beautiful. There is a Lustre on the Face, and a Lustre in the Walk of such a man; he has even the Splendour of A light in the world.
Once more, Gold is a Beautiful metal. 'Tis called, Aurum, for that very cause; ab Aura, i. e. a Splendore. Tis a shining and glitt'ring thing; and hence things that are very splendid, are said to be covered with ellow Gold. For this reason, an Hook of it once catch't by the Lust of the Eye. Thus, a good man has a transcendent Beauty in him. To such an one, twas said in