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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 3: REASON III.
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REASON III.
The Lords daily Mercy to us, requires our hearty Service to Him. It is noted of the rudest among the Gentiles, in Luc. 22. 25 Their Benefactors exercise a Lordship over them. Never, Never had we any Benefactor like to our God who daily loads us with his Benefits. Unthankful wretches are we, if we shake off the Lordship of such a Lord. It was an Address once made to a Governor in Act. 24. 2•. By thee we enjoy great quietness, and very worthy deeds are done; unto us by thy providence. It were a […] an unworthy thing, not to serve such a Governor. Truly, From God we enjoy great quietness; by the Providence of God, we are delivered from a Thousand perils every day: and we are surrounded with ten thousand Comforts Every day; by the Providence of God we are directed, Protected, sustained and supplied, every-day, This calls for the Service of God at our hands Tis said, in Rom 12. 1. I beseech you, brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living Sacrifice unto Him. What a persuasive piece of Oratory is that […] I beseech you by the Mercies of God. He that urges you to the Service of God may thus plead with you, I beseech you, Brethren, by the Mercies of God, that God may not have one Servant in the world the left for you. I beseech you, Brethren, that when the Goodness, and mercy of God is following of you, you do ⟨p. 13⟩not turn your backs on the Service of God. To pursue, this Argument; I beseech you Brethren, Whose Eight is it, whereby you are every day revived? It is God's Whose Air is it. whereby you are every day refreshed? It is God's Whose Fire is it that warms you? Whose Meat is it that feeds you? Whose Raiment is it that covers you? All is God's O then Serve Him. These are the Cords of a man, with which we are bound to the Service of our Lord. This is the Poesy which God has inscribed in the Ring of every mercy, O learn to serve the Giver of this! It was a sad Complaint which the Lord made in Isa. . 2. I have nourished them, and brought them up, yet have they rebelled against me. Alas, what a YET is there? Our God has been as a Father to us; and yet shall not we Serve Him as our Master? He Relieves us, He Supports us, He Bestows on us the mercies of Children, and shall not we yet return so so much as the Respects of Servants unto Him?