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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 : preached partly at Boston, partly at Charleston / by Cotton Mather ; published by a gentleman lately restored from threatening sickness as a humble essay to serve the interest of religion, in gratitude unto God for his recovery.
Boston: printed by R. Pierce, 1689
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.
Family-Instruction; and Family-Government.
I link these together, because of their near Dependence and Agreement in their Exercise. This therefore is the Address now to be made unto us,
I link these together, because of their near Dependance and Agreement in their Exercise. This therefore is the Address now to be made unto us,
Let Family-Instruction and so Family-Government be maintained in our Houses, that they may serve the Lord.
Let there be no untaught and unruled Families ⟨p. 44⟩among us; but let us be careful about the Education of such as belong to our Families. I beseech you, let there be a difference between English Houses and Indian Wigwams in the middest of us, and let not English Parents be as indulgent and negligent as they report the Indians are. And give me leave to say, You that are Mothers have a special Advantage to instil the Fear of God into the souls of them that sit upon your knees. Tis said in