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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 3: The Third Rule.
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The Third Rule.
Be frequent enough, and yet very serious in your family-Prayers. Very shameful is their neglect, who have Prayers in their Families but once a day. ⟨p. 33⟩The Apostle saith in Col. 4. 2. Masters, continue in prayer; he speaks with a manifest Allusion to the daily Offering under the Law of old; which was both morning and evening. We should have Morning-Prayers, and Evening Prayers, correspondent unto the daily Sacrifice, And hence, because the Sacrifice was doubled on the Sabbath, I have known some pious people, pray four times every Lords-Day with their Families. Be sure, Twice a day is ordinarily the seldomest and slenderest Repetition that our Family-prayers are to have.
O but we should therein stir up our selves to take hold on God. When you keel before the Lord, you should not be rash, hasty, sudden in it; you should not be sleighty in this great Exercise of of Religion. Before we Pray, we should think, Think seriously, To WHOM am I to pray? and For What am I to Pray? and How soon may I dye, and my praying seasons all be over? And before we pray, we should Read. Read seriously something of the Things which are commanded you of God. The Scriptures are to accompany our prayers. Tis said, They are to dwell with us. The Bible is to be one of the House, When we betake our selves to our Prayers, we should not let the Bible say, I should have been […] one of the Family; pray, why was not I called in?