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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. The first, concerning the methods wherein men ought to engage both themselves and their houses in the service of God. The second, concerning the right and best ways of redeeming time in the world. The third, concerning the carriage which we should have under trials used by God upon us. The fourth, concerning the end, which in our desires of life, we should propound unto ourselves. Preached partly at Boston, partly at Charleston. / By Cotton Mather, Pastor of a church in Boston. ; Published by a gentleman lately restored from threatening sickness; as an humble essay to serve the interest of religion, in gratitude unto God for his recovery.Small offers towards the service of the tabernacle in the wilderness. Four discourses, accommodated unto the designs of practical godliness. The first, concerning the methods wherein men ought to engage both themselves and their houses in the service of God. The second, concerning the right and best waies of redeeming time in the world. The third, concerning the carriage which we should have under trials used by God upon us. The fourth, concerning the end, which in our desires of life, we should propound unto ourselves. Preached partly at Boston, partly at Charleston. / By Cotton Mather, Pastor of a church in Boston. ; Published by a gentleman lately restored from threatning sickness; as an humble essay to serve the interest of religion, in gratitude unto God for his recovery.
Boston: printed by R. Pierce. Sold by Jos. Brunning, 1689
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.
Family-PRAYER.
SECT. IX.
First, then. Let Family-Prayer be maintained in our Houses, that they may serve the Lord.
FIrst, then. Let Family-Prayer be maintained in our Houses, that they may serve the Lord.
My Neighbours, I have told you often, and I now tell you weeping, That it will be a sad thing, if so much as one Prayerless-Family be found among you all. The owners of that House will never be able to stand or live in the fiery day of of God's pleading with him. You have been Warned and Warned full many a time, that if your Houses be not Warmed with your Prayers, the fierce Wrath of God abideth on them; and I hope, none of you will venture to meet me at the Bar of the Lord Jesus, with the fearful heavy guilt of this Omission upon your souls. The very Turks themselves, at this day uphold a Family-Worship among themselves; God forbid that any styled Christians here should be worse than they.