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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 7 › Counsel 2: The Second Counsil.
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.
The Second Counsel.
The Second Counsil.
Bind your selves unto the Service of God by a Covenant never to be Forgotten. It was the good Counsel of Hezekiah, in 2. Chron. 30. 8. Yield yourselves unto the Lord. In the Hebrew Original tis, Give the Hand unto the Lord. The giving of the Hand was a Rite in the making of a Covenant Men and Brethren, Look Zion•ards, I beseech you; and say now, I will join my self to the Lord in a perpetual COVENANT. Think on the Service which God is to have of you, and be able then to declare, as in Psal. 119. 110. I have sworn it, and I will perform it. Make a solemn Covenant, that you will be the Lord's. Yea, a Written, a Formal, a subscribed Covenant for it, has by some been advised and practised. Written and Formal Indentures are made between man and man; Why should not there be so between God and man? when a Service is to be Entered into. Especially, since tis said, in •sai, 44. 5. A man shall subscribe ⟨p. 25⟩with his hand unto the Lord?
Bind your selves unto the Service of God by a Covenant never to be Forgotten. It was the good Counsil of Hez•k•ah, in 2. Chron. 30. 8. Yeild yourselves unto the Lord. In the Hebrew Original tis, Give the Hand unto the Lord. The giving of the Hand was a Rite in the making of a Covenant Men and Brethren, Look Zion•ards, I beseech you; and say now, I will join my self to the Lord in a perpetual COVENANT. Think on the Service which God is to have of you, and be able then to declare, as in