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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.
There are blessed Helps, which God hath provided for us, by which we may be both Assisted in and Excited to, the work of our lives.
Behold a double Help, both implied in the Judgments of God. And he that shall consult other passages in this Hundred-and nineteenth psalm, will find both under this Notion insisted on. The Scriptures of Truth, and the Troubles of Life.
Behold a double Help, both implyed in the Judgments of God. And he that shall consult other passages in this Hundred-and nineteenth psalm, will find both under this Notion insisted on. The Scriptures of Truth, and the Troubles of Life.
First, The Word of God is to be sought as the Help, of our Praising Him. The Prophet of old could say as in Mich. 6. 8. The Lord hath showed thee, O man, the thing that good is. That, the Lord hath showed us how to be praising of Him, by living to Him. But Where has he showed it? Truly in the sacred Bible. The Bible is the Directory given to us. Every Child is well taught to say, The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the Rule which God hath given to instruct us how we are to glorify Him. To order a Life in a dark world, is as hard as to manage a Ship in a dark night, we are in the Dark about the Practises which our lives are to be employed in What shall we then do that we may leave no part of our due Homage to God […]? The Apostle speaks fully to this Case 2. Pet 1. 18. We have a sure word of Prophecy, wherein […] do well to take heed, as to a light shining in a dark place. There, There it is: our Bible is our Pole-Star: keep an eye to That and we shall ⟨p. 116⟩shape a course Right. All the Directions, all the Promises, all the Threatenings of God, will be so many Helps, of our Obedience. If any man ask, How do the Scriptures of God help men in the Praises of God? Know, The Scriptures themselves give an Answer thereunto, in