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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.
SECT. X.
The Method in which I shall treat with you here about, shall be,
THe Method in which I shall treat with you here about, shall be,
1. To offer some Directions about Family-Prayer.
The First Rule.
Let all Persons that should attend Family prayer, count themselves concerned to Pray without ceasing. Every Master of an House, is to carry on the Prayer in it. That man is not fit to have an House, that cannot make a Prayer, But if the Master be absent? Then the Masters is to see still that Prayer be not wanting. It seems affirmed of Esther, a Woman, in Cap. 4. 16. That she prayed with her Maidens. There should not be one Prayer the less in a Family, because a Widow is become the Ruler there: No, the Losses of a Family, should increase the Prayers of it. And let the Master of a Ship, remember, That the Sailors are his Family. He should pray with them aboard, every day while they are at Sea together. You that see the Wonders of God together, should together sing the Praises of God, and together beg the Mercies of God. Methinks, the poor Sea-men, should be the best men in the world. With what face can you pray in a Storm, if you do not also pray in a Calm? Now Master, tis your Work, tis part of your […], from your great Owner to see that this be done. Let all Mariners call upon their Master, as ths Mariners did upon the Passenger, in