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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
THE GOOD MANS RESOLUTION. › Section 4 › Proposition 2 › Reason 3: REASON III.
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REASON III.
The Lords daily Mercy to us, requires our hearty Service to Him. It is noted of the rudest among the Gentiles, in Lu•. 22. 25. Their Benefactors exercise a Lordship over them. Never, Never had we any Benefactor like to our God, who daily loads us with his Benefits. Unthankful wretches are we, if we shake off the Lordship of such a Lord. It was an Address once made to a Governor in Act. 24. 2. By thee we enjoy great quietness▪ and very worthy deeds are done unto us by thy providence. It were a disloyal, an unworthy thing, not to serve such a Governor. Truly, From God we enjoy great quietness; by the Providence of God, we are delivered from a Thousand perils every day: and we are surrounded with ten thousand Comforts Every day; by the Providence of God we are directed, protected, sustained and supplied, every day. This calls for the Service of God at our hands. Tis said, in Rom. 12. 1. I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice unto Him. What a persuasive piece of Oratory is that! I beseech you by the Mercies of God. He that urges you to the Service of God may thus plead with you, I beseech you, Brethren, by the Mercies of God, that God may not have one Servant in the world the less for you. I beseech you, Breth••• ▪ that when the Goodness, and mercy of God is following of you, you do ⟨p. 13⟩not turn your backs on the Service of God. To pursue, this Argument; I beseech you Brethren, Whose Light is it, whereby you are every day revived? It is God's Whose Air is it, whereby you are every day refreshed? It is God's. Whose Fire is it that warms you? Whose Meat is it that feeds you? Whose Raiment is it that covers you? All is God's. O then, Serve Him. These are the Cords of a man, with which we are bound to the Service of our Lord. This is the Poesy which God has inscribed in the Ring of every mercy, O learn to serve the Giver of this! It was a sad Complaint which the Lord made in