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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.
To Enforce these Three Things;
Consider that Thing with is intimated in the Text. The Lives of your Souls are enwrapped in the praises of God. Says the Psalmist, Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee. So I may say, Let thy Soul praise, and it shall live. A praising Soul, is a Thriving Soul. In this consisteth Life Eternal it self, The Life of thy Soul in the Third Heaven, will be the praise of thy God for evermore. Praise God for thy Life; it is a mercy well worth praise. Praise God by thy life; so thou wilt begin Heaven upon Earth.
Consider that Thing wich is intimated in the Text. The Lives of your Souls are enwrapped in the praises of God. Saies the Psalmist, Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee. So I may say, Let thy Soul praise, and it shall live. A praising Soul, is a Thriving Soul. In this consisteth Life Eternal it self, The Life of thy Soul in the Third Heaven, will be the praise of thy God for evermore. Praise God for thy Life; it is a mercy well worth praise. Praise God by thy life; so thou wilt begin Heaven upon Earth.
But there is a Fourth Counsel which more immediately concerns that part of the Congregation which are of my own Age, and have therefore a more peculiar interest in my Loves and Cares.
But there is a Fourth Counsil which more immediately concerns that part of the Congregation which are of my own Age, and have therefore a more peculiar interest in my Loves and Cares.