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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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But Consider also, the Dreadfulness, of a Death, ensuing upon a Life not spent in the praising of God. O this Dying! tis a solemn thing, […], A thing by it self: What follows it? But that in Heb. 9. 27. After Death Judgement. That Judgment will be Eternal; and if it come upon thee before thy turning and living or to God, it will be very Terrible.
But Consider also, the Dreadfulness, of a Death, ensuing upon a Life not spent in the praising of God. O this Dying! tis a solemn thing, 〈…〉, A thing by it self: What followes it? But that in Heb. 9. 27. After Death Judgement. That Judgment will be Eternal; and if it come upon thee before thy turning and living or to God, it will be very Terrible.
Hearken to this awful Truth and Voice of the ⟨p. 127⟩Almighty God, and let thy heart quiver as under the loudest claps of Thunder at it; If thou Die before thy peace be made with God, and thy praise be given to Him, tis impossible thou shouldst escape the Vengeance of Eternal Fire; Small Chips as well as great Logs are horribly burning there; there must thou too undergo most exquisite Anguishes, for infinitely more than as many Millions of Ages, as the Huge Ocean has Drops […] Water in it.
Hearken to this awful Truth and Voice of the ⟨p. 127⟩Almighty God, and let thy heart quiver as under the loudest claps of Thunder at it; If thou Dy before thy peace be made with God, and thy praise be given to Him, tis impossible thou shouldst escape the Vengeance of Eternal Fire; Small Chips as well as great Logs are horribly burning there; there must thou too undergo most exquisite Anguishes, for infinitely more than as many Millions of Ages, as the Huge Ocean has Dropes Water in it.