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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.
Prayers for life are then, and only then rightly ⟨p. 111⟩qualified, when they have Respect unto the Praises of God.
To clear this matter, there are these things to be conceived.
One Conclusion is, That the Living on Earth have many peculiar Opportunities to be Praising of God. Indeed, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they too are always praising of Him. But yet they rest from some Praises, when they rest from their Labours here. The departed Saints are continually shouting, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, before the Throne of God. The Saints, they are joyful in glory; and the High Praises of God are perpetually Proceeding from those blessed Souls. But Christians in this world have their peculiar Opportunities, to be Glorifying of Him that made them. This did the Psalmist speak in Ps 88. 11. Shall the dead praise thee? To instance in some particulars:
One Conclusion is, That the Living on Earth have many peculiar Opportunities to be Praising of God. Indeed, Blessed are the dead who dy in the Lord, for they too are alwaies praising of Him. But yet they rest from some Praises, when they rest from their Labours here. The departed Saints are continually shouting, H•llelujah, Hallelujah, before the Throne of God. The Saints, they are joyful in glory; and the High Praises of God are perpetually Proceeding from those blessed Souls. But Christians in this world have their peculiar Opportunities, to be Glorifying of Him that made them. This did the Psalmist speak in Ps 88. 11. Shall the dead praise thee? To instance in some particulars: