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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 7 › Rule 2: The Second Counsil.
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.
The Second Counsel.
The Second Counsil.
Bind your selves unto the Service of God by a Covenant never to be Forgotten. It was the good Counsel of Hezekiah, in 2. Chron. 30. 8. Teild your selves unto the Lord. In the Hebrew Original tis, Give the Hand unto the Lord. The giving of the Hand was a Rite in the making of a Covenant. Men and Brethren, Look Zionwards, I beseech you; and say now, I will join my self to the Lord in a perpetual COVENANT. Think on the Service which God is to have of you, and be able then to declare, as in Psal. 119. 110. I have sworn it, and I will perform it. Make a solemn Covenant, that you will be the Lord's. Yea, a Written, a Formal, a subscribed Covenant for it, has by some been advised and practised. Written and Formal […] are made between man and man; Why should not there be so between God and man […] when a Service is to be Entered into. Especially […] since tis said, in Isai, 44. 5. A man shall subscribe ⟨p. 25⟩with his hand […] the Lord?
Bind your selves unto the Service of God by a Covenant never to be Forgotten. It was the good Counsil of Hezekiah, in 2. Chron. 30. 8. Teild your selves unto the Lord. In the Hebrew Original tis, Give the Hand unto the Lord. The giving of the Hand was a Rite in the making of a Covenant. Men and Brethren, Look Zionwards, I beseech you; and say now, I will join my self to the Lord in a perpetual COVENANT. Think on the Service which God is to have of you, and be able then to declare, as in