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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 14 › To offer some Directions about Family-Instruction.
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.
First, Reprove not Furiously. It is said in Jam. 1. 20. The wrath of man, worketh not the righteousness of God. Remember, Nothing will be so well done in a passion, but what may be done better out of it. If you are to chide, yet chide not in a Fury. Do not call vile Names; much more, do not swear, do not curse, do not Rage with a Tongue set on fire of hell. If you are to smite, yet smite not in a Fury. Bloody, wounding, outrageous Buffetings are to be avoided, lest there be cause to say of you, Cursed is their Anger for it is fierce, and their Wrath for it is cruel.
First, Reprove not Furiously. It is said in Jam. 1. 20. The wrath of man, worketh not the righteousness of God. Remember, Nothing will be so well done in a passion, but what may be done better out of it. If you are to chide, yet chide not in a Fury. Do not call vile Names; much more, do not swear, do not curse, do'not Rage with a Tongue set on fire of hell. If you are to smite, yet smite not in a Fury. Bloody, wounding, outragious Buffe•tings are to be avoided, lest there be cause to say of you, Cursed is their Anger for it is fierce, and their Wrath for it is cruel.
Secondly Reprove not for ever. Tis said in Ps. 103. 9. God will not always chide, neither will He keep his anger for ever. To be always finding faults, is the way never to be curing them. A perpetual Wrangling is a continual Dropping, which there is no enduring of; it prejudices the minds of them that feel it, against all that shall ⟨p. 50⟩be said unto them.
Secondly Reprove not for ever. Tis said in Ps. 103. 9. God will not alwaies chide, neither will He keep his anger for ever. To be alwaies finding faults, is the way never to be curing them. A perpetual Warngling is a continual Dropping, which there is no enduring of; it prejudices the minds of them that feel it, against all that shall