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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.
By Digesting it into an Hymn, which may help carry on the Thanksgiving wherein we are Engage•
The Mercies of Almighty God To miserable Me, Purchased by His most precious Blood, Are, Oh! how Rich and Free! Mercies, which Answer and Remove All my just Miseries: Mercies, Well-worth my Praise and Love, And Thankful Sacrifice. Behold, O Gracious Lord, I do Present my self to Thee: No Beasts, but my Own Body to My God, shall offered be. A Body, by the Death of Thine For Thee full dearly Bought, To Thee, with Every Thing of mine, Is now Sincerely brought. My Living Body Offered here So does continue Still; Oh! may it Live, Thy Name to Fear, And still to Do Thy Will. May, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD On all I do in It, According to Thy Holy Word, Be now most Plainly Writ. May I, the Pleasing of Thee, make My daily care therein, And never any Pleasure take Defi•'d with Loathsome Sin Lord, Let me thus my Reason use In Offering Thee Thy Own: 'Tis all Right Reason I should choose To be Thine, Thine alone.
THe Mercies of Almighty God To miserable Me, Purchas'd by His most precious Blood, Are, Oh! how Rich and Free! Mercies, which Answer and Remove All my just Miseries: Mercies, Well-worth my Praise and Love, And Thankful Sacrifice. Behold, O Gracious Lord, I do Present my self to Thee: No Beasts, but my Own Body to My God, shall off'red be. A Body, by the Death of Thine For Thee full dearly Bought, To Thee, with Every Thing of mine, Is now Sincerely brought. My Living Body Off'red here So does continue Still; Oh! may it Live, Thy Name to Fear, And still to Do Thy Will. May, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD On all I do in It, According to Thy Holy Word, Be now most Plainly Writ. May I, the Pleasing of Thee, make My daily care therein, And never any Pleasure take Defi•'d with Loathsome Sin Lord, Let me thus my Reason use In Off'ring Thee Thy Own: 'Tis all Right Reason I should choose To be Thine, Thine alone.