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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.
But there is a Fourth Counsel which more immediately concerns that part of the Congregation which are of my own Age, and have therefore a more peculiar interest in my Loves and Cares.
But there is a Fourth Counsil which more immediately concerns that part of the Congregation which are of my own Age, and have therefore a more peculiar interest in my Loves and Cares.
Tis to Young People here, that I take leave to say,
Fourthly, Begin You now Betimes to live unto ⟨p. 125⟩the Praise of the everliving God. My Brethren, you have not yet begun to live at all, if you have not begun to praise the Lord. You are Dead in Trespasses and Sins; you are stark dead in the rotten, hideous, loathsome Graves of your Unregeneracy, if you have not yet begun to order your Conversation aright, and to ponder, How may I so offer praise as to Glorify God? But is not this the deplorable Condition of many, many Young people here? Conscience do thine Office! Is not the Hour yet to come, is not the Day yet to dawn, when that young person (whom thou art the Officer of God unto) did by an hearty Covenant bind himself unto the Serving and the Praising of the Lord?
Fourthly, Begin You now Betimes to live unto ⟨p. 125⟩the Praise of the everliving God. My Brethren, you have not yet begun to live at all, if you have not begun to praise the Lord. You are Dead in Trespasses and Sins; you are stark dead in the rotten, hideous, loathsome Graves of your Unregeneracy, if you have not yet begun to order your Conversation aright, and to ponder, How may I so offer praise as to Glorify God? But is not this the deplorable Condition of many, many Young people here? Conscience do thine Office! Is not the Hour yet to come, is not the Day yet to dawn, when that young person (whom thou art the Officer of God unto) did by an hearty Covenant bind himselfe unto the Serving and the Praising of the Lord?