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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 IV › Proposition 2: PROP. II.
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PROP. II.
Every man should engage HIMSELF in the Service of the Almighty God.
The purpose and study of every man should be this, I will serve the Lord. We should all be able truly to say of God, as in Act. 27. 23. His I am, and Him I serve. A Servant of God, this was the Title, not of Joshua alone, but of other Worthies too; when Abraham is mentioned, it is, Abraham the Servant of the Lord. When Moses is mentioned, it is, Moses the Servant of the Lord. When God speaks of Job, he says, ⟨p. 8⟩Job my Servant Thus was Jonah, thus was Elijah, thus was Zerubbabel also styled. And it is a style which We too should be ambitious of. If we would not be miserable for ever, we must be the mystical, the Spiritual seed of Israel; but such are so saluted in 1 Chron. 16. 13. O ye seed of Israel his Servant. As our Fathers Friend, so our Fathers Lord, we must not forsake. We must all be the Servants of God, as our Father before us was. And this especially for the three ensuing causes.
The purpose and study of every man should be this, I will serve the Lord. We should all be able truly to say of God, as in