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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.
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Let us all he hence advised to Discern and Improve Time, which we have to discharge our D• ties in. The most of us, tis to be […], may discern Judgment; we know […] our Duty is, and How it is to be dispatched. […] us also discern Time: Suffer we not our time to run from us, while we neglect the great Ends which we, have it for. O let not the Lord have cause to complain of us as in Jer. 8. 7. The Birds in the Heaven know their appointed times, but my people do not know.
Let us all he hence advised to Discern and Improve Time, which we have to discharge our D• tyes in. The most of us, tis to be 〈…〉, may discern Iudgment; we know 〈…〉 our Duty is, and How it is to be dispatched. 〈…〉 us also discern Time: Suffer we not our time to run from us, while we neglect the great Ends which we, have it for. O let not the Lord have cause to complain of us as in Jer. 8. 7. The Birds in the Heaven know their appointed times, but my people do not know.
That we may Discern time, and improve time, such Directions as these may well be followed.