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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.
The First DESIRE.
Let us come forth more out-of-Love with Gold which perisheth. Our GOD hath taught us that no gold will deliver from Death and Hell; and that no gold can be carried away ⟨p. 104⟩with, us at our Departure hence. Our God hath told us, That though we should have never so much gold about us, we may in a moment be taken away from all. Wherefore Let us become Indifferent unto gold, and all the Delights of this miserable World. Look, Look upon thy most golden Comforts, and imagine thou hearest that Voice of GOD, in Prov. 23. 5. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? When one of the Martyrs had money proffer`d unto him, he Refused it, saying, The Coin is not current, in the Country to which I am going. O despise all gold but what will be Current there.
Let us come forth more out-of-Love with Gold which perisheth. Our GOD hath taught us that no gold will deliver from Death and Hell; and that no gold can be carried away ⟨p. 104⟩with, us at our Departure hence. Our God hath told us, That though we should have never so much gold about us, we may in a moment be taken away from all. Wherefore Let us become Indifferent unto gold, and all the Delights of this miserable World. Look, Look upon thy most golden Comforts, and imagine thou hearest that Voice of GOD, in Prov. 23. 5. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? When one of the Martyrs had money proffer`d unto him, he Refused it, saying, The Coyn is not current, in the Countrey to which I am going. O despise all gold but what will be Current there.