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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
THE GOOD MANS RESOLUTION. › Section 10 › Rule 2: The Second Rule.
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The Second Rule.
Let all the Masters that would hinder Family Prayer be put far from our Tabernacles, There are diverse Impediments of our family-Prayers, which we are to be Cautioned against. As now, Let not family Prayers hinder family-Prayers The Apostle saith to them that are in a Conjugal Relation ⟨p. 32⟩that they should be meek, tender, lo• ing; for this cause in 1. Pet. 3. 7. That your Prayers be not hindered. If Peace be gone from a family, then Prayer is gone. How can Scolding, and it may be Striking too, agree with Praying, in which we are to lift up pure hands, without wrath? Again, Let not family-Scabs hinder family-Prayers. Bad-Members in a family, often cause that there are no Prayers in it. Many men will not Pray, because others will scoff and flout. But let your Houses have no such In-mates, no such Ishmaels in them. It is recorded of Elisha, in 2 King. 4. 33. he would not have a servant with him, which he could not pray withal. If any profane, graceless, Despisers of Prayer, would impose themselves upon us, let us then say to them, Depart ye workers of iniquity. for I will call upon the Lord. Once more,
Let all the Masters that would hinder FamilyPrayer be put far from our Tabernacles, There are diverse Impediments of our family-Prayers, which we are to be Cautioned against. As now, Let not family Prayers hinder family-Prayers The Apostle saith to them that are in a Conjugal Relation ⟨p. 32⟩that they should be meek, tender, lo ing; for this cause in