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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
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There was a Man in the Land of Arabia, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright. The Church of GOD is enriched with an excellent History, in an elegant poesy, relating the great Prosperity, the sad Adversity, and strange Recovery of that perfect and upright man. Tis probable, that he was an Edomites; and the very Jobah whom Esau was Great Grandfather unto; but this I ⟨p. 86⟩am sure of, He was an Israelite indeed! From a Rich and Fair estate, He suddenly became, As poor as Job; and while he was in this poor Condition, his noble Friends gave him their friendly Visits and Respects, Many admirable Dialogues now passed between them; wherein they endeavoured to Accuse and Convince him of some remarkable Iniquity, as the Cause of his Calamity; and he laboured to vindicate himself; to assert his own Integrity and Sincerity.
THere was a Man in the Land of Arabia, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright. The Church of GOD is enriched with an excellent History, in an elegant poesie, relating the great Prosperity, the sad Adversity, and strange Recovery of that perfect and upright man. Tis probable, that he was an Edomits; and the very Jobah whom Esau was Great Grandfather unto; but this I ⟨p. 86⟩am sure of, He was an Israelite indeed! From a Rich and Fair estate, He suddenly became, As poor as Job; and while he was in this poor Condition, his noble Friends gave him their friendly Visits and Respects, Many admirable Dialogues now passed between them; wherein they endeavoured to Accuse and Convince him of some remarkable Iniquity, as the Cause of his Calamity; and he laboured to vindicate himself; to assert his own Integrity and Sincerity.
In our Context here, the good man is expressing his Willingness and Readiness to appear before the Judgement-seat of God; and in our Text, he declares what he expects would be the Result of his Trials by the Lord. He comforts himself by those two Considerations. First, that God's Knowledge did reach him. He saith, God knows the way that is in me; q. d. Tho I cannot see God, yet God can see me; and the most inward Purposes or Appetites of my mind, are not concealed from Him. And Next, that God's Trial would clear him. This is the Article that lies before us to be Explained and Improved, and the Doctrine, which may guide our Discourse upon it, is,