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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 Reasonably. Let there be just Cause for it. When you reprove, it must be for a true cause. As it was said of our Saviour in Isai 11. 3. He shall not reprove after the hearing of His ears. Thus, we may not go by mere Hear-say, when we reprove those that are under us. And it must be for a great Cause. Tis said of the Spirit in Joh. 16. 3. He will reprove the world for SIN. The sinful thing, the thing for which the wrath of God comes, the thing which the soul of the Lord hates, this we are to reprove. We must not throw away Reproofs upon Nothing, of upon Every thing.
First, Reprove Reasonably. Let there be just Cause for it. When you reprove, it must be for a true cause. As it was said of our Saviour in Isai 11. 3. He shall not reprove after the hearing of His ears. Thus, we may not go by meer Hear-say, when we reprove those that are under us. And it must be for a great Cause. Tis said of the Spirit in Joh. 16. 3. He will reprove the world for SIN. The sinful thing, the thing for which the wrath of God comes, the thing which the soul of the Lord hates, this we are to reprove. We must not throw away Reproofs upon Nothing, of upon Every thing.
Secondly, Reprove Scripturally. Tis said in 2. Tim 3. 16. All Scripture is profitable for Reproof. A Reproof, with a Scripture comes with a more than ordinary Majesty and Authority. When we Reprove those that are under us, First, make them read as Text which does, Condemn what we would rebuke, and then set it home with a very warm lively vigorous Application.
Fourthly, There are solemn Charges with which we are to Instruct our Families. It was the Character which the Lord gives of Abraham, in Gen 18. 19. I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord. O that this might