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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
THE GOOD MANS RESOLUTION. › Section 15 › Exception 3: The Third Exception.
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The Third Exception.
A Third person will urge this against it.
I want Abilities to manage this work, my Parts and Gifts are too mean to go through it.
I want Abilities to manage this work, my Parts and Gifts are too mean to go thro it.
To this I answer; God will Accept you, tho' you do it meanly. The Prophet made this Apology for himself, in Jer. 1. 6. Ah! Lord God, I cannot speak. But God answered, Say not so. Tho you have but one Talent, yet let it not lie by. Though you have only Goats hair, or Badgers shins, yet employ them for the use of the Tabernacle. The Apostle tells the Hebrews, You need one to teach you the first principles of the oracles of […]; yet unto them he said, Exhort one an […].
To this I answer; God will Accept you, tho' you do it meanly. The Prophet made this Apology for himself, in