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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.
Consider seriously, Who your Fellow-servants are, when once you serve the Almighty God. O come in, and serve God, for shame; lest in the whole world, you have none but Devils to bear you company: And will you be of their side, of their sort? Rebellion truly is as the sin of Witchcraft, for this piece of Madness in it. All other Beings make a Surrender of themselves ⟨p. 20⟩unto the Service of God; and it is said of the• in Psal. 119. 91. All are thy Servants. O do not you stand out. Hearken, ye immortal souls; You have the call of Christians to entice you into this happy Service. All the Eminent Believers of the By-past-Ages, the men, of whom the world was not worthy, all these do with one voice, and a loud one, urge this upon you; Come and serve our God, as we have done before you. Even James himself, the Kinsman of the Lord is ambitious rather of this Denomination The Servant of the Lord. And puissant Emperors before now, have gladly espoused, such a Title as that, The Vassals of the Lord. More than this, you have the Call of Angels to incite you thereunto. Those bright Morning stars ask this of you, Will you come and move in our Sphere? They all are the servants of the Lord, and they do his pleasure. At his Beck they clap their silver wings, and they do his Commandments. An Angel said once to John the Apostle, I am thy Fellow-Servant. That Angel is yet alive; & he makes the motion to every one of us, Wilt thou be my Fellow-Servant before the Lord? Yea, the SON of GOD Himself gives you this Call. Of Him saith our God, in Isa; 42. 1. Behold my Servant! Shall God say thus of Christ? and shall. He not say it of thee? O do not scorn to be the Servant of that GOD, who has for a Servant, Him whom all the Third ⟨p. 21⟩Heaven is with endless Raptures adoring of.
Consider seriously, Who your Fellow-servants are, when once you serve the Almighty God. O come in, and serve God, for shame; lest in the whole world, you have none but Devils to bear you company: And will you be of their side, of their sort? Rebellion truly is as the sin of Witchcraft, for this peice of Madness in it. All other Beings make a Surrender of themselves ⟨p. 20⟩