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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, We are to Instruct our Families very Seasonably. We are told in Matth, 24. 45. The Ruler over the Household is to give them their meat in due Season. There lies much in the Time we take for the Work. We should indeed have our Frequent Times, to do it: We should speak what may be for the Instruction of our Families, ⟨p. 53⟩every day, and often in a day; and on various occasions be dropping our savoury Admonitions. Even when we sit at the Table, we should rarely Rise without feeding the Minds, as well as the Mouths of our Attendants. Much more at the Hours of Prayer, we should do something that may make them more acquainted with Divine Objects then they were before. But we should likewise have our Stated Times to do it. Especially Sacred Time will be very properly a Stated Time for it. On the Days of the Lord, we should instruct our Houses in the Things of the Lord; that were infinitely better than to be Sleeping or Talking at an idle rate, as then too many do.
First, We are to Instruct our Families very Seasonably. We are told in Matth, 24. 45. The Ruler over the Household is to give them their meat in due Season. There lies much in the Time we take for the Work. We should indeed have our Frequent Times, to do it: We should speak what may be for the Instruction of our Families, ⟨p. 53⟩every day, and often in a day; and on various occasions be dropping our savoury Admonitions. Even when we sit at the Table, we should rarely Rise without feeding the Minds, as well as the Mouthes of our Attendents. Much more at the H•urs of Prayer, we should do something that may make them more acquainted with Divine Objects then they were before. But we should likewise have our Stated Times to do it. Especially Sacred Time will be very properly a Stated Time for it. On the Dayes of the Lord, we should instruct our Houses in the Things of the Lord; that were infinitely better than to be Sleeping or Talking at an idle rate, as then too many do.