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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.
Prop. I.
The Blessed God affordeth to men in this World a Time to discharge the Duties incumbent on them. There are two things incumbent on us; to Do good, and to Get good. The good we are to do, is to Honour God; and the good we are to get, is to Enjoy God. Those two things comprise all our Duties; and they make up the Errand which we come into the World upon. Now, while we are in this world, God allows us a Time for this work; we have time not only in the larger sense of it, but also in the stricter sense of it; We have time not only in Duration, but also in Opportunity. There is not any Duty enjoined upon us, but there is a Season for it allowed unto us. Tis an Observation about the things that shall be, in Eccles. 3. 1. To every thing there is a Season, and a Time to every purpose. Thus it may be said about the things that should be, There is no Duty, but God hath provided us a Time and a Season for it. We have some golden spots of Time, whereof we may say, This is the ⟨p. 68⟩Time for such a duty; and again, This is the Time for another duty.
The Blessed God affordeth to men in this World a Time to discharge the Duties incumbent on them. There are two things incumbent on us; to Do good, and to Get good. The good we are to do, is to Honour God; and the good we are to get, is to Enjoy God. Those two things comprise all our Duties; and they make up the Errand which we come into the World upon. Now, while we are in this world, God allowes us a Time for this work; we have time not only in the larger sense of it, but also in the stricter sense of it; We have time not only in Duration, but also in Opportunity. There is not any Duty enjoined uppon us, but there is a Season for it allowed unto us. Tis an Observation about the things that shall be, in