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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. The first, concerning the methods wherein men ought to engage both themselves and their houses in the service of God. The second, concerning the right and best ways of redeeming time in the world. The third, concerning the carriage which we should have under trials used by God upon us. The fourth, concerning the end, which in our desires of life, we should propound unto ourselves. Preached partly at Boston, partly at Charleston. / By Cotton Mather, Pastor of a church in Boston. ; Published by a gentleman lately restored from threatening sickness; as an humble essay to serve the interest of religion, in gratitude unto God for his recovery.Small offers towards the service of the tabernacle in the wilderness. Four discourses, accommodated unto the designs of practical godliness. The first, concerning the methods wherein men ought to engage both themselves and their houses in the service of God. The second, concerning the right and best waies of redeeming time in the world. The third, concerning the carriage which we should have under trials used by God upon us. The fourth, concerning the end, which in our desires of life, we should propound unto ourselves. Preached partly at Boston, partly at Charleston. / By Cotton Mather, Pastor of a church in Boston. ; Published by a gentleman lately restored from threatning sickness; as an humble essay to serve the interest of religion, in gratitude unto God for his recovery.
Boston: printed by R. Pierce. Sold by Jos. Brunning, 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.
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To my Ever-honoured Father-in-Law, JOHN PHILIPS Esq
Sir
You cannot but Remember, and I should not have this Occasion of Telling you so, if you did not well Remember, That many months are not passed since. You encountered a Dangerous Eev••; by which the Vital Ty between what must Return to God that gave it, and what must Return into the Earth as it has been there, was very near burned asunder, in you; But God had then mercy on You, and not on You only, but on me also, lest I should have had sorrow upon sorrow. It was a darker Time in your House, than (through' Grace) with your Soul, when we beheld You lying under what looked like an Arrest laid on you by the cold Hand of Death, and saying, I shall go the gates of the Grave, I am deprived of the […] of my years. But the Blessing which if you study to be a Blessing you can never want, was then your privilege; even, To be much prayed for; and behold, the Effect of those our Applications to the God of your Life! On that very day when your faithful and worthy