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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.
To praise God, What is that? To praise God, is to Render and Procure, a due Acknowledgement of His Excellencies. Indeed all the Duties of Religion are Contained in this Comprehensive thing. When we own, when we serve, when we Adore the Great God in any or all the ways of His Worship, Then we praise Him; and we further praise Him, when we provoke others to join with us in doing so. This, This Praise of the LORD is the End of our Life in the World.
To praise God, What is that? To praise God, is to Render and Procure, a due Acknowlement of His Excellencies. Indeed all the Duties of Religion are Contained in this Comprehensive thing. When we own, when we serve, when we Adore the Great God in any or all the waies of His Worship, Then we praise Him; and we further praise Him, when we provoke others to join with us in doing so. This, This Praise of the LORD is the End of our Life in the World.
This is the End of our Being. We are told that We have our Being in God. Of all things whatever this is then most Reasonable, that We should have our Being for God; and our ⟨p. 109⟩Being for Him, is not expressed without our praising of Him. The blessed God looks from on high upon mankind, and saith, as in Isa. 43. 21. This people have I formed for my self, they should show forth my Praise. Now that which is the End of our Being, is the End of our Living too. Two things are to be affirmed of it,