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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 Living here may be praising of God by the Discharge of many Relations, which the dead Saints are strangers unto. We may now praise God as Parents, as Masters, as Officers in the the Church or Common-Wealth. All those Capacities will die with us, when we shall go hence and be-no more.
The Living here may be praising of God by the Discharge of many Relations, which the dead Saints are strangers unto. We may now praise God as Parents, as Masters, as Officers in the the Church or Common-Wealth. All those Capacities will dy with us, when we shall go hence and be-no more.
Again, The Living here may be Praising of God, by Bearing many a Witness to the Truths and Ways of the Lord Jesus Christ. We may now bestow many Rebukes upon the Errors and ⟨p. 112⟩the Evils of a sinful World. We may part with and esteem, an Estate, with our Ease, and our Life it self, out of Respect unto the Name of God. But our Testimonies expire with our Lives.
Again, The Living here may be Praising of God, by Bearing many a Witness to the Truths and Wayes of the Lord Jesus Christ. We may now bestow many Rebukes upon the Errors and ⟨p. 112⟩the Evils of a sinful World. We may part with and esteem, an Estate, with our Ease, and our Life it self, out of Respect unto the Name of God. But our Testimonies expire with our Lives.
Once more, The Living may be Praising of God by Advancing His Kingdom here below. In this Life we may be instrumental to Convince and Convert Unregenerate Sinners, to build up the Church of the Lord Jesus, and to Do good among the ignorant by an Exemplary Conversation. But this is to be done only below the stars.