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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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Consider, That God is now Trying of your Faithfulness. No doubt, you have sometimes promised the God of Heaven, That if you might have such a measure of Health and Strength, or, ⟨p. 102⟩That if you might have such a Degree of Estate and Honour you would glorify God with a wonderful Activity. Well, faith our God, I'll try. God is trying whether you will be true to those Professions and Engagements, which you made before He so smiled upon you. God is trying whether you will not Confirm that Observation, in Jer. 17. 9. The Heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.
Consider, That God is now Trying of your Faithfulness. No doubt, you have sometimes promised the God of Heaven, That if you might have such a measure of Health and Strength, or, ⟨p. 102⟩That if you might have such a Degree of Estate and Honour you would glorify God with a wonderful Activity. Well, faith our God, I'll try. God is trying whether you will be true to those Professions and Engagements, which you made before He so smil'd upon you. God is trying whether you will not Confirm that Observation, in Jer. 17. 9. The Heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.
Consider moreover, That God is now trying of your Thankfulness. A very terrible Wrath is denounced against them in Deut. 28. 47. Who serve not God for the abundance of all things. God gives you an Abundance of all things, and it is to try whether you will serve Him, and praise Him for it. God is Trying whether you will now often say, Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me! God is Trying whether you will now think, What shall I render to the LORD for all His benefits? Let us be as Gold by affording now a good Experiment.