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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.
SECT. IV.
This being thus explained, I pass on to a Second Proposition.
THis being thus explained, I pass on to a Second Proposition.
PROP. II.
Every man should engage HIMSELF in the Service of the Almighty God.
The purpose and study of every man should be this, I will serve the Lord. We should all be able truly to say of God, as in Act. 27. 23. His I am, and Him I serve. A Servant of God, this was the Title, not of Joshua alone, but of other Worthies too; when Abraham is mentioned, it is, Abraham the Servant of the Lord. When Moses is mentioned, it is, Moses the Servant of the Lord. When God speaks of Job, he says, ⟨p. 8⟩