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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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Believe that God now does Understand what you are. It was an Article in that famous Prophets Creed, in Jer. 12. 3. Thou, O Lord knowest me, thou hast seen me, and tried my heart towards ⟨p. 96⟩thee. O that every one of us were enough f•• sible of that awful solemn Truth! Tis a common thing to say, God knows my heart; but who does enough lay that thing to heart? Who reckons any more upon it than the false •thazi did? It was an Orthodox persuasion in Psal. 139. 1, 2. O Lord thou hast searched me and known me; thou understandest my thought afar off. Tis very certain, that every one of our thoughts are known to the infinite God, even afar off, long enough before they come into our minds. But, O Lord, who has believed our Report? Men and Brethren, do you believe it, and apprehend it, and realize it. Believe it, that God is all Eye, and that He needs not a Glass Window in your breasts for the Exploration of you. Believe it, that the eyes of the Lord run to & fro, through the whole earth; and that he will not by a Mistake drop a Blessing wrong as blind Isaac did of old. Yea, let it be a frequent Meditation with you, All that I am, and all that I think, is well known unto the Lord.
Beleeve that God now does Understand what you are. It was an Article in that famous Prophets Creed, in Jer. 12. 3. Thou, O Lord knowest me, thou hast seen me, and tryed my heart towards ⟨p. 96⟩thee. O that every one of us were enough f•• sible of that awful solemn Truth! Tis a common thing to say, God knowes my heart; but who does enough lay that thing to heart? Who reckons any more upon it than the false •thazi did? It was an Orthodox perswasion in Psal. 139. 1, 2. O Lord thou hast searched me and known me; thou understandest my thought afar off. Tis very certain, that every one of our thoughts are known to the infinite God, even afar off, long enough before they come into our minds. But, O Lord, who has believed our Report? Men and Brethren, do you beleeve it, and apprehend it, and reallize it. Beleeve it, that God is all Eye, and that He needs not a Glass Windowin your breasts for the Exploration of you. Beleeve it, that the eyes of the Lord run to & fro, through the whole earth; and that he will not by a Mistake drop a Blessing wrong as blind Isaac did of old. Yea, let it be a frequent Meditation with you, All that I am, and all that I think, is well known unto the Lord.