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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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There is a two-fold Exhortation which I must now bespeak your earnest Heed unto.
I. Let us approve our selves as Gold under the Examinations of the Blessed God. There are who take notice that the Original in Job. 37. 22. is, Gold cometh out of the North. God grant that the best Gold may here be found in our North that you the inhabitants of the North may for your Virtues be as Gold before the Lord. Yea, that North-Boston may be like Havilah, and it may be said, The gold of that land is good; or, there are Extraordinary golden and precious Christians there.
I. Let us approve our selves as Gold under the Examinations of the Blessed God. There are who take notice that the Original in Job. 37. 22. is, Gold cometh out of the North. God grant that the best Gold may here be found in our North that you the inhabitants of the North may for your Vertues be as Gold before the Lord. Yea, that North-Boston may be like Havilah, and it may be said, The gold of that land is good; or, there are Extraordinary golden and precious Christians there.