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The Christian thank-offering. A brief discourse on the returns of gratitude & obedience whereto…
The Christian thank-offering. A brief discourse on the returns of gratitude & obedience whereto men are obliged, by the mercies of God. Made on a solemn thanksgiving, kept in a private meeting of Christians, on the occasion of some deliverances. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Five lines of quotation]
printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1696
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Nor indeed, would we be so profane, as to reckon it a Battology, or a Superfluity, in the Fourteen Epistles of Paul, that this dearest Name occurs four hundred and fifty Times therein, and no less than […] Times in the Ten First Verses to the Corinthians.
Nor indeed, would we be so profane, as to reckon it a Battology, or a Superfluity, in the Fourteen Epistles of Paul, that this dearest Name occurrs four hundred and fifty Times therein, and no less than 〈…〉 Times in the Ten First Verses to the Corinthians.
The Thing which I assert is, That the Obedience to God, which His Innumerable & Unparallellable ⟨p. 9⟩Mercies unto us, do call for, is, That we Devote our selves unto the Service of the Lord JESUS CHRIST; who to this End both Died and Rose, that He might be the LORD of all. To Serve the Lord JESUS CHRIST, what is that? Briefly, 'Tis to make •t Acknowledgements of His Infinite Excellencies, and bring others to join with us in making of such Acknowledgements. It is to bear our Testimonies unto the Truths and unto the Ways of he Lord JESUS CHRIST, and Conform our selves unto His Will. Now to Devote our selves hereunto, is our Acceptable Sacrifice; For •e are assured, He that Serveth Christ, is Acceptable to God. And we are thus to proceed •n our doing of it.
The Thing which I assert is, That the Obedience to God, which His Innumerable & Unparallellable ⟨p. 9⟩Mercies unto us, do call for, is, That we Devote our selves unto the Service of the Lord JESUS CHRIST; who to this End both Died and Rose, that He might be the LORD of all. To Serve the Lord JESUS CHRIST, what is that? Briefly, 'Tis to make •t Acknowledgments of His Infinite Excellencies, and bring others to join with us in making of such Acknowledgments. It is to bear our Testimonies unto the Truths and unto the Wayes of he Lord JESUS CHRIST, and Conform our selves unto His Will. Now to Devote our selves hereunto, is our Acceptable Sacrifice; For e are assured, He that Serveth Christ, is Acceptable to God. And we are thus to proceed n our doing of it.