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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.
Thirdly, let us Discern our Accountableness for all our Time. God maintains us and supplies ⟨p. 75⟩us with Time continually. He keeps a Sun to measure it. The time will come when He will reckon with us about all our Time. Tis said in Ecc. 11. 9. O young man walk in the ways of thy heart; but know thou that for all these things, God will bring thee into judgement. In like sort, let me say, Come, squander away thy Time, even contrive to get the dead commodity off thy hands; but know thou that in the day, when God shall judge the world, all this Time of thine must be accounted for. It was the Law of old, in Exod 21. 18. If one man smite another, so that he keep his bed, and yet walk abroad again, he shall pay for his healing and the Loss of his Time: Truly so, if we impenitently lose any of the Time which God hath given us, He will make us pay for it, in the day of his pleac•ng with us. Tis said in Matth. 12. 36. Men shall give an account of every idle wo•d. Much more in that day shall men give an account of every idle Hour. The God that hath numbered our Hairs, hath also numbered our Hou•es▪ It will be a fearful thing, if at last He say unto us, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thy life has been made up of idle hours.
Thirdly, let us Discern our Accountableness for all our Time. God maintains us and supplies ⟨p. 75⟩us with Time continually. He keeps a Sun to measure it. The time will come when He will reckon with us about all our Time. Tis said in Ecc. 11. 9. O young man walk in the wayes of thy heart; but know thou that for all these things, God will bring thee into judgement. In like sort, let me say, Come, squander away thy Time, even contrive to get the dead commodity off thy hands; but know thou that in the day, when God shall judge the world, all this Time of thine must be accounted for. It was the Law of old, in Exod 21. 18. If one man smite another, so that he keep his bed, and yet walk abroad again, he shall pay for his healing and the Loss of his Time: Truly so, if we impenitently lose any of the Time which God hath given us, He will make us pay for it, in the day of his pleacng with us. Tis said in