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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 › Reason 1: REASON I.
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REASON I.
We are to serve God, because God hath Made us. The Argument with which Paul persuaded Philemon to receive a Run-away Servant of his own, was that in Phil. 1. 19. Thou owest unto me even thine own self. By that Argument should each one of us be persuaded to become a Dutiful Servant of the Lord, We own unto him even our own selves. Man! 'tis a most fit thing that thy Maker should be thy Master.
We are to serve God, because God hath Made us. The Argument with which Paul perswaded Philemon to receive a Run-away Servant of his own, was that in Phil. 1. 19. Thou owest unto me even thine own self. By that Argument should each one of us be perswaded to become a Dutiful Servant of the Lord, We own unto him even our own selves. Man! 'tis a most fit thing that thy Maker should be thy Master.
There are two Questions which I hope every Child within these Walls can give some right Answer to. The Answer to them will render it unquestionable, That you and I are to Serve God for ever.