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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.
The First DESIRE.
Let us come forth more out-of Love with Gold which perisheth. Our GOD hath taught us that no gold will deliver from Death and Hell; and that no gold can be carried away ⟨p. 104⟩with, us at our Departure hence. Our God hath told us, That though we should have never so much gold about us, we may in a moment be taken away from all. Wherefore Let us become Indifferent unto gold, and all the Delights of this miserable World. Look, Look, upon thy most golden Comforts, and imagine thou hearest that Voice of GOD, in Prov. 23. 5. Will thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? When one of the Martyrs had money proffered unto him, he Refused it, saying, The Coin is not current, in the Country to which I am going. O despise all gold but what will be Current there.
Let us come forth more out-of Love with Gold which perisheth. Our GOD hath taught us that no gold will deliver from Death and Hell; and that no gold can be carried away ⟨p. 104⟩with, us at our Departure hence. Our God hath told us, That though we should have never so much gold about us, we may in a moment be taken away from all. Wherefore Let us become Indifferent unto gold, and all the Delights of this miserable World. Look, Look, upon thy most golden Comforts, and imagine thou hearest that Voice of GOD, in Prov. 23. 5. Will thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? When one of the Martyrs had money proffer'd unto him, he Refused it, saying, The Coyn is not current, in the Countrey to which I am going. O despise all gold but what will be Current there.