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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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This is the End of our Being. We are told that We have our Being in God. Of all things whatever this is then most Reasonable, that We should have our Being for God; and our ⟨p. 109⟩Being for Him, is not expressed without our praising of Him. The blessed God looks from on high upon mankind, and faith, as in Isa. 43. 21. This people have I formed for my self, they should show forth my Praise. Now that which is the End of our Being, is the End of our Living too. Two things are to be affirmed of it, First, The Law of God doth Appo•at this as as the End of our Lives. Unto every man living, this is the Voice of God, I spare thy life, that so thou mayst live my praise. It is said in Rom. 14. 7. If we live, in are to live unto the Lord. What the Apostle faith of Eating and Drinking, may much more be said of Living; as in 1. Cor. 10. 30. It must be unto the Glory of God. God gives our Lives, God keeps our Lives, and this is His revealed, His Preceptive Will concerning our Lives; Man, I suffer thy life, yea, I support thy life, that I may be praised, loved, admired by thee as long as thou livest. It was an heavy dismal Charge against Belshazzar, in Dan. 5. 23. God in whose Hand thy breath is, thou hast not glorified. The Almighty God gives us notice of this, Thy Breath is in my hand; at the same time He also requires this of us, Let thy life be to my praise. That man makes a sacrilegious in […] and […] upon God's Right, who make […] God's Praise, the End of his living upon God's […]
This is the End of our Being. We are told that We have our Being in God. Of all things whatever this is then most Reasonable, that We should have our Being for God; and our ⟨p. 109⟩Being for Him, is not expressed without our praising of Him. The blessed God looks from on high upon mankind, and faith, as in