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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.
Let us all be now Exhorted, that the Praise of God, may be duly accounted by us, as the End of our Life, in our Prayers for it. Let us not shoot beside our Mark, or live beside our End. Let us pray that we may live, and let us live that we may praise. It is the most lamentable plight in the world, that a man should spend his Life in Sinning against God, rather than in Praising of Him. But alas, This is the case of Multitudes, Multitudes among us. How few of us [Consider of in seriously] How sew of you that ⟨p. 123⟩are now before the Lord, ever seriously thought with your selves, What is the Errand that I am come into the world upon? Hast thou not lived above a Score of years in the world, and never yet seriously thought, What is it that God sent me hither for? Every man here, I suppose, desires to live; let your Prayers express those Desires; and say after the Psalmist, Ps. 32. 8. My Prayer is to the God of my life. But more than so, Let those Desires be for the sake of your Praises; and say after the Psalmist again, in Ps. 119. 17. Deal bountifully with thy Servant that I may live and keep thy Word.
Let us all be now Exhorted, that the Praise of Ged, may be duly accounted by us, as the End of our Life, in our Prayers for it. Let us not shoot beside our Mark, or live beside our End. Let us pray that we may live, and let us live that we may praise. It is the most lamentable plight in the world, that a man should spend his Life in Sinning against God, rather than in Praising of Him. But alas, This is the case of Multitudes, Multitudes among us. How few of us [Consider of in seriously] How sew of you that ⟨p. 123⟩are now before the Lord, ever seriously thought with your selves, What is the Errand that I am come into the world upon? Hast thou not lived above a Score of years in the world, and never yet seriously thought, What is it that God sent me hither for? Every man here, I suppose, desires to live; let your Prayers express those Desires; and say after the Psalmist, Ps. 32. 8. My Prayer is to the God of my life. But more than so, Let those Desires be for the sake of your Praises; and say after the Psalmist again, in