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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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First by way of Concession. I would say; There are some Desires of Death will becoming a Child of God. Such were the Desires of Paul, in Phil. I. 22. I desire to be […] Christ. When we think of the day, in which we shall go to the the Spirits of just men made perfect; and to Jesus the Mediator of the New-Covenant; When we ⟨p. 118⟩think of the day in which the Lord will deliver us from the hand of all our enemies, and from the hand of SIN; O the thoughts of it should fill out Souls with Raptures of Joy! they should cause our hearts to leap and spring within us. It is an allowable thing to be almost angry with Time, to call upon slow Time, and say, Fly apace; Fly away, O Time; Come, O Eternity, come and fetch me into the presence of the Lord. The Visions of the Lord Jesus may cause us to say humbly with aged, faithful Simeon, Lord, let thy servant depart in peace. The Chariots of Death, sent by the Lord Jesus to fetch us unto Himself should be as welcome to us, as the Waggons of Joseph were to Jacob of old. It should cause us to Rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory, when we think of the unspeakable joy and the full glory which we are going unto. There are holy longings and lookings of Soul, with which we may cry out, Why, why are His Chariots so long I coming? Why tarry the Wheels thereof?
First by way of Concession. I would say; There are some Desires of Death will becoming a Child of God. Such were the Desires of Paul, in Phil. I. 22. I desire to be 〈…〉 Christ. When we think of the day, in which we shall go to the the Spirits of just men made perfect; and to Jesus the Mediator of the New-Covenant; When we ⟨p. 118⟩think of the day in which the Lord will deliver us from the hand of all our enemies, and from the hand of SIN; O the thoughts of it should fill out Souls with Raptures of Joy! they should cause our hearts to leap and spring within us. It is an allowable thing to be almost angry with Time, to call upon slow Time, and say, Fly apace; Fly away, O Time; Come, O Eternity, come and fetch me into the presence of the Lord. The Visions of the Lord Jesus may cause us to say humbly with aged, faithful Simeon, Lord, let thy servant depart in peace. The Chariots of Death, sent by the Lord Jesus to fetch us unto Himself should be as welcom to us, as the Waggons of Joseph were to Jacob of old. It should cause us to Rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory, when we think of the unspeakable joy and the full glory which we are going unto. There are holy longings and lookings of Soul, with which we may cry out, Why, why are His Chariots so long I coming? Why tarry the Wheels thereof?