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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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Proposition II.
Upon the Trials of God, good men come forth as gold.
There is that in Gold, which good men may be compared unto. We read in Deut. 1. 1. about the mountains of Dizahab: that is, the Golden mountains; because Gold was probably dug from thence. The Churches of God in the world, are such Mountains of gold. Every true Believer is a rich lump of Gold before the Lord. Of such persons tis said in Lam. 4. 2. They are the precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold. There are diverse properties in Gold, which a good man will have a blessed Resemblance of. I should offer you not Gold, but Hay and stubble if I should read you here a Lecture of Metallogy, or discourse to you all that I could Philosophize about this King of Metals. Let me only touch on a few common Reflections, As now,
There is that in Gold, which good men may be compar'd unto. We read in Deut. 1. 1. about the mountains of Dizahab: that is, the Golden mountains; because Gold was probably dug from thence. The Churches of God in the world, are such Mountains of gold. Every true Believer is a rich lump of Gold before the Lord. Of such persons tis said in