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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 2: Direction, II.
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.
Direction, II.
Let us Discern our Time, and Attend every Duty in the proper Time.
There is a two-fold Prudence which the Wise man's heart is to be no stranger to.
The First Prudence is,
Let no Duty be done out of its Time. We are told in Eccles 3. 11. God hath made every thing beautiful in the Time of it. There is a Nick of Time that we are to take for all we do. Not Snow but Fruit is beautiful in the Summer. Tis ⟨p. 78⟩not beautiful for the Duty of Prayer, to be done at a sleepy time, or at a busy time. Tis not beautiful for the Duty of Reproof to be done at a time when it can do no good at all. Set not upon this or that Duty at a time when God calls to another Duty. Tis said in