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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.
First, There are Holy Lessons, with which we are to Instruct our Families. We are to make them hear, and make them learn those Lessons, which may give to the young ones Knowledge and Discretion. Teach them the Scriptures of Truth. Twas said to Timothy, in Cap. 3. 15. From a Child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures; No doubt, his Godly Mother and Grandmother were the cause of his doing so. We should procure that our Young ones may read the holy Scriptures, and mind the holy Scriptures, and know the holy Scriptures, even from a Child. Let them have by heart, here and there a Verse, or a Paragraph; Especially in the Psalms and in the Proverbs: if you would have them good, teach them the Psalms of David; if you would have them wise, teach them the Proverbs of Solomon. And Scripture• Stories are to be told unto them, as soon as ever they enquire after new things and strange.
First, There are Holy Lessons, with which we are to Instruct our Families. We are to make them hear, and make them learn those Lessons, which may give to the young ones Knowledge and Discretion. Teach them the Scriptures of Truth. Twas said to Timothy, in Cap. 3. 15. From a Child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures; No doubt, his Godly Mother and Grandmother were the cause of his doing so. We should procure that our Young ones may read the holy Scriptures, and mind the holy Scriptures, and know the holy Scriptures, even from a Child. Let them have by heart, here and there a Verse, or a Paragraph; Especially in the Psalms and in the Proverbs: if you would have them good, teach them the Psalmes of David; if you would have them wise, teach them the Proverbs of Solomon. And Scripture• Stories are to be told unto them, as soon as ever they enquire after new things and strange.
But while we do thus, we are also to teach them the Doctrines of God. Inculcate upon them the Principles of Religion, as often as you do the Knife on the Stone in the Whetting of it. Twas said unto the Lord Jesus, in Matth. 22. 16. Master, Thou •echest the way of God in Truth. Every Mster should render his young ones able to say that unto himself, Master, Thou