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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
THE GOOD MANS RESOLUTION. › Section 3 › Proposition 1: PROP. 1.
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PROP. 1.
The whole Duty of man, is contained in the true Service of God. Both in the First Covenant, and in the New Covenant which God […] made with man, there is a Duty which man must pay to God. In the First Covenant this Duty was to be paid in a way of meritorious Obedience; in the New Covenant, this Duty is to he paid in a way of ingenuous Gratitude But the Service of God, this ever comprises all our Duty in it. It is the same that the Wise man refers unto, in Ecel, 12. 13. Fear God and keep […] commandments; for this is the whole duty of man There are diverse comprehensive and synonymous Terms, by which our Duty to God is expressed in the Scripture of Truth. our ⟨p. 6⟩Duty is called A Serving of God, as it refers to the Acts of our lives in which; but its also called A Fearing of God, and A Loving of God, as it refers to the Frames of our hearts, with we are to do it. It is called, A Knowing of God, as it refers to the principle of it; it is likewise a Living to Him, and Walking with Him, on the same accounts that it is a Serving […] Him.
The whole Duty of man, is contained in the true Service of God. Both in the First Covenant, and in the New Covenant which God 〈…〉 made with man, there is a Duty which man must pay to God. In the First Covenant this Duty was to be paid in a way of meritorious Obedience; in the New Covenant, this Duty is to he paid in a way of ingenuous Gratitude But the Service of God, this ever comprizes all our Duty in it. It is the same that the Wise man refers unto, in Ecel, 12. 13. Fear God and keep 〈…〉 commandmens; for this is the whole duty of man There are diverse comprehensive and synonymous Terms, by which our Duty to God is expressed in the Scripture of Truth. our ⟨p. 6⟩Duty is called A Serving of God, as it refers to the Acts of our lives in which; but its also called A Fearing of God, and A Loving of God, as it refers to the Frames of our hearts, with we are to do it. It is called, A Knowing of God, as it refers to the principle of it; it is likewise a Living to Him, and Walking with Him, on the same accounts that it is a Serving Him.