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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 5: The Fifth Exception.
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.
The Fifth Exception.
Tis possible a fifth person may have uncomfortable cause to plead,
I have those in my Family that will not be Instructed; I can't Order them so far as to make them submit unto it.
In this unhappy Case, What shall be done but this? We are to pray for these Creatures, that their Hearts may be tamed and bow•d by Him, that has them in His Hand. We are also to watch when some Affliction or some Amazement is come upon them: then God opens their ear to Discipline; then the Wild Asses are in the Month where you may find them. We may likewise call in the help of some grave, pious, holy Minister, who may come to them with the spirit and power of Elijah, To turn the hearts of the Children to their Fathers.
In this unhappy Case, What shall be done but this? We are to pray for these Creatures, that their Hearts may be tam•d and bow•d by Him, that has them in His Hand. We are also to watch when some Affliction or some Amazement is come upon them: then God opens their ear to Discipline; then the Wild Asses are in the Month where you may find them. We may likewise call in the help of some grave, pious, holy Minister, who may come to them with the spirit and power of Elias, To turn the hearts of the Children to their Fathers.