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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, The Law of God doth Appoint this as as the End of our Lives. Unto every man living, this is the Voice of God, I spare thy life, that so thou mayst live my praise. It is said in Rom. 14. 7. If we live, we are to live unto the Lord. What the Apostle saith of Eating and Drinking, may much more be said of Living; as in 1. Cor. 10. 30. It must be unto the Glory of God. God gives our Lives, God keeps our Lives, and this is His revealed, His Preceptive Will concerning our Lives; Man, I suffer thy life, yea, I support thy life, that I may be praised, loved, admired by thee as long as thou livest. It was an heavy dismal Charge against Belshazzar, in Dan. 5. 23. God in whose Hand thy breath is, thou hast not glorified. The Almighty God gives us notice of this, Thy Breath is in my hand; at the same time He also requires this of us, Let thy life be to my pr•ise. That man makes a sacrilegious Encroachment and Invasion upon Gods Right, who makes not Gods Praise, the End of his living upon God`s Earth.
First, The Law of God doth Appoint this as as the End of our Lives. Unto every man living, this is the Voice of God, I spare thy life, that so thou mayst live my praise. It is said in Rom. 14. 7. If we live, we are to live unto the Lord. What the Apostle saith of Eating and Drinking, may much more be said of Living; as in 1. Cor. 10. 30. It must be unto the Glory of God. God gives our Lives, God keeps our Lives, and this is His reveled, His Preceptive Will concerning our Lives; Man, I suffer thy life, yea, I support thy life, that I may be praised, loved, admired by thee as long as thou livest. It was an heavy dismal Charge against Belshazzer, in Dan. 5. 23. God in whose Hand thy breath is, thou hast not glorified. The Almighty God gives us notice of this, Thy Breath is in my hand; at the same time He also requires this of us, Let thy life be to my pr•ise. That man makes a sacrilegious Incroachment and Invasion upon Gods Right, who makes not Gods Praise, the End of his living upon God`s Earth.