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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
THE GOOD MANS RESOLUTION. › Section 15 › Exception 4: The Fourth Exception.
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The Fourth Exception.
A Fourth person perhaps will not blush to say, I want Opportunity to attend this Work, my Employment will not suffer me.
But let no man argue so Man hast thou Time to Feed thy Family and no time to Teach them? The poorest among you all should say, as in Psa. 119. 92. The Law of thy mouth is better to me, than thousands of Gold and silver. Tis better to lay up for thy Family the Riches of God's Law, than Thousands of pounds. Nothing, nothing should put by their Instruction in the way of peace If you do not want an Heart, you will not want a Time for the Instruction of your Families. No man could have more business lying on his hands than David had who had the Affairs of a mighty Kingdom to distract him; yet of him could his own Son say as in Prov. 4. 4. He taught me.
But let no man argue so Man hast thou Time to Feed thy Family and no time to Teach them? The poorest among you all should say, as in Psa. 119. 92. The Law of thy mouth is better to me, than thousands of Gold and silver. Tis better to lay up for thy Family the Riches of God's Law, than Thousands of pounds. Nothing, nothing should put by their Instruction in the way of peace If you do not want an Heart, you will not want a Time for the Instruction of your Families. No man could have more business lying on his hands than David had who had the Affayrs of a mighty Kingdom to distract him; yet of him could his own Son say as in