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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.
And Try whether you count no Service too much to be done for the People of the Saints of the Most High. Put the Question to your selves, and let the Preface of your Answer be that Request in Psal 139. 23. Search me O God, and try me, and help me to know my self.
To be much in such Self-Examination is the way to be a Golden Christian, and indeed, none but such an one will have a Value for the Exercise.
II. Let us also approve ourselves, as gold, under the Dispensations of the Blessed GOD.
Particularly,
First. Let them that are in Prosperity behave themselves well under the Trials of the Lord. It may be that you are come to have store of Gold; O that you may Be like what you Have! Tis possible that you have been in much Distress and Sorrow: But God has brought you forth, as tis said He brought Israel out of Egypt, in Ps 105. 37. He brought them forth with Gold.