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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
TIME DISCERNED. › Proposition 2 › USE. › Direction 1: Direction I.
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 things which we are to discern in all Time are these,
First, let us discern the Worth of all Time. Let not an hour pass without this opinion of it, This hour is too good to be lost. If we prise the Jewel we shall not lose it. It is for our shame that even an Heathen made that complaint, Q•uem mibi dabis qui diem est•met? Where will you find a man that esteems his Time as he ought to do?
Ponder well what a vast price our Lord paid for our Time. We had forfeited all our Tune into the hands of infinite revenging Justice; the just wrath of God would have taken away •ime and Life from us long ago, if our Lord Jesus had not laid down such a price as that in 1. Pe•. 1. 18. Ye were redeemed, not with silver and gold, but […] the precious blood of Jesus Christ. O don't throw away any of that which cost so dea•.
Ponder well what a vast price our Lord paid for our Time. We had forfeited all our Tune into the hands of infinite revenging Justice; the just wrath of God would have taken away •ime and Life from us long ago, if our Lord Jesus had not laid down such a price as that in 1. Pe•. 1. 18. Ye were redeemed, not with silver and gold, but 〈…〉 the precious bloud of Iesus Christ. O don't throw away any of that which cost so dea•.