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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.
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•.
And ponder well what a vast price the dying & ⟨p. 74⟩the damned set on their Time. We may say of it as Job of another thing, in Cap. 28. 22. Destruction and death, say, we have heard the fame thereof with our ears. Even so, Destruction and Death set an high rate upon it. Ask men when Destruction and Death is near to seizing upon 'em, How much would you give now for a little of the time that is gone? They will reply, O, whole mountains of gold for one hour of it! Judge now as you will judge then.
And ponder well what a vast price the dying & ⟨p. 74⟩the damned set on their Time. We may say of it as Iob of another thing, in Cap. 28. 22. Destruction and death, say, we have heard the fame thereof with our ears. Even so, Destruction and Death set an high rate upon it. Ask men when Destruction and Death is near to seizing upon 'em, How much would you give now for a little of the time that is gone? They will reply, O, whole mountains of gold for one hour of it! Judge now as you will judge then.