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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.
Counsel. I.
Counsil. I.
Believe, and Expect the Trials of the eternal God.
Beleeve, and Expect the Trials of the eternal God.
Believe that God now does Understand what you are. It was an Article in that famous Prophets Creed, in Jer. 12. 3. Thou, O Lord knowest me, thou hast seen me, and tried my heart towards ⟨p. 96⟩thee. O that every one of us were enough sensible of that awful solemn Truth! Tis a common thing to say, God knows my heart; but who does enough lay that thing to heart? Who reckons any more upon it than the false Gehazi did? It was an Orthodox persuasion in Psal. 139. 3, 2. O Lord thou hast searched me and known me; thou understandest my thought afar off. Tis very certain, that every one of our thoughts are known to the infinite God, even afar off, long enough before they come into our minds. But, O Lord, who has believed our Report? Men and Brethren, do you believe it, and apprehend it, and realize it. Believe it, that God is all Eye, and that He needs not a Glass Window in your breasts for the Exploration of you. Believe it, that the eyes of the Lord run to & fro, through the whole earth; and that he will not by a Mistake drop a Blessing wrong as blind Isaac did of old. Yea, let it be a frequent Meditation with you, All that I am, and all that I think, is well known unto the Lord.