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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.
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.
First. Let them that are in Prosperity behave themselves well under the Tryals 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.
Consider, That God is now Trying of your Faithfulness. No doubt, you have sometimes promised the God of Heaven, That if you might have such a measure of Health and Strength, or, ⟨p. 102⟩That if you might have such a Degree of Estate and Honour you would glorify God with a wonderful Activity. Well, saith our God, I'll try. God is trying whether you will be true to those Professions and Engagements, which you made before He so smiled upon you. God is trying whether you will not Confirm that Observation, in Jer. 17. 9. The Heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.
Consider, That God is now Trying of your Faithfulness. No doubt, you have sometimes promised the God of Heaven, That if you might have such a measure of Health and Strength, or, ⟨p. 102⟩That if you might have such a Degree of Estate and Honour you would glorify God with a wonderful Activity. Well, saith our God, I'll try. God is trying whether you will be true to those Professions and Engagements, which you made before He so smil'd upon you. God is trying whether you will not Confirm that Observation, in