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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 11 › Excuse 1: The First Excuse.
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.
The First Excuse.
One man doth so Excuse himself. I want Time for Family-prayer; especially in a Morning, I can't spare the Time.
This is a most horrid and wicked Excuse. Thou Madman, From Whom hast thou all thy Time? All thy Time is given by God, and shall None of thy Time be given to God? What No Time to pray with thy Family? God knows thou canst find time to cat with thy family, time to sleep with thy family, perhaps, time to smoke with thy family; and no Time to pray with em? Once more,
This is a most horrid and wicked Excuse. Thou Madman, From Whom hast thou all thy Time? All thy Time is given by God, and shall None of thy Time be given to God? What No Time to pray with thy Family? God knowes thou canst find time to cat with thy family, time to sleep with thy family, perhaps, time to smoke with thy family; and no Time to pray with em? Once more,
What is it that does engross thy Time, and put by thy Prayer? Tis the World, the World! And is that such a Portion indeed, as to bespeak thy Contempt of an Eternal GOD, and of an immortal Soul, in the pursuance of it. Thou shalt quickly take an everlasting Farewell of all this World; This World will not stand thee in any stead ere long, when thy Soul, thy Soul shall be trembling on thy cold lips, just ready (as the Atheist said) to Take a great leap in the Dark. Yea, That very Day, wherein thou goest abroad without thy Family Prayers, may prove