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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.
Hearken to this awful Truth and Voice of the ⟨p. 127⟩Almighty God, and let thy heart quiver as under the loudest claps of Thunder at it; If thou Die before thy peace be made with God, and thy praise be given to Him, tis impossible thou shouldst escape the Vengeance of Eternal Fire; Small Chip• as well as great Logs are horribly burn••• […] there must thou too undergo most exquisite Anguishes, for infinitely more than as many Millions of Ages, as the Huge Ocean has Drops of Water in it.
Hearken to this awful Truth and Voice of the ⟨p. 127⟩Almighty God, and let thy heart quiver as under the loudest claps of Thunder at it; If thou Dy before thy peace be made with God, and thy praise be given to Him, tis impossible thou shouldst escape the Vengeance of Eternal Fire; Small Chip• as well as great Logs are horribly burn••• 〈…〉 there must thou too undergo most exquisite Anguishes, for infinitely more than as many Millions of Ages, as the Huge Ocean has Drops of Water in it.
O Consider, these Terrors of the Lord, and immediately set upon His Praises.
Now that you would come to these Resolutions, before you go from the present Exercise! Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn from following after you; but give me leave to press upon you at least this one Consideration more.