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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.
Secondly, Let us Discern the Irrevocableness of our Time. When our time is once gone, it remains Irrevocable, and Irrecoverable for evermore. We may say of every Time that is past, as in Psal. 49. 8. It is precious and it ceaseth forever. The Wish of Hezekiah could once bring back the shadow of the Sun, but never could any man procure a Return of his Time. Sometimes the doleful Cries of distressed ones have been, Call Time again! call Time again! But alas, Time won't come back for Calling. Oh how should this make us to take heed that we don't abuse any part of our Time, I shall never have this time again! When once our Time has taken wing, what is said of Love▪ in Cant. 8. 7. that may be said of Time, If a man would give all the substance of his house for it, it would utterly be contemned, When once Time is gone, 'tis gone.
Secondly, Let us Discern the Irrevokableness of our Time. When our time is once gone, it remains Irrevokable, and Irrecoverable for evermore. We may say of every Time that is past, as in Psal. 49. 8. It is precious and it ceaseth forever. The Wish of Hezekiah could once bring back the shadow of the Sun, but never could any man procure a Return of his Time. Sometimes the doleful Cryes of distressed ones have been, Call Time again! call Time again! But alas, Time won't come back for Calling. Oh how should this make us to takeheed that we don't abuse any part of our Time, I shall never have this time again! When once our Time has taken wing, what is said of Love▪ in Cant. 8. 7. that may be said of Time, If a man would give all the substance of his house for it, it would utterly be contemned, When once Time is gone, 'tis gone.
Thirdly, let us Discern our Accountableness for all our Time. God maintains us and supplies