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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.
Charge them; and this especially about four Things. Lay upon them that Charge of God in 1. Joh. 3. 23. This is His Commandment, that you believe on the Name of his Son. Charge them to accept of Christ Jesus, as their Prince and their Saviour; Charge them to repair unto Christ Jesus for Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption. Lay also upon them that Charge of God, in Mat. 6. 6. Enter into thy Closet and pray to thy Father in secret. Charge them to Retire for their Devotions every day; Charge them to let not a day pass them, without Crying to God for His Mercy, and Pardon, and Salvation. Once more, Lay upon them that Charge of God, in Prov. 1. 10. My son, if Sinners entice thee, consent thou not, Charge them, that they be not the Companions of Fools; Charge ⟨p. 52⟩them that they do not associate themselves into an Intimacy and a Familiarity with any but such as may be sober, discreet, blameless persons. Finally, Lay upon them that Charge of God in Hag. 1. 5. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your ways. Charge them, that they Consider what their present Condition is, and what their future Condition is like to be; Charge them, that they consider of their past Behaviours, and of the Death, and Judgment, and Eternity which is yet before them. A young man has become a real Convert by being obliged unto Consideration for one Quarter of an Hour in a Day. Wish for them, say to them, Oh that they were wise, that they would Consider! In a word, Let your Charge on them, be that, which Holy Bolton gave to his Children, when he dyed, I charge you, that at the Day of Judgement, none of you dare to meet me in an Unregenerate estate.
Charge them; and this especially about four Things. Lay upon them that Charge of God in 1. Joh. 3. 23. This is His Commandment, that you believe on the Name of his Son. Charge them to accept of Christ Jesus, as their Prince and their Saviour; Charge them to repair unto Christ Jesus for Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption. Lay also upon them that Charge of God, in