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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.
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Charge them; and this especially about four Things. Lay upon them that Charge of God in 1. Joh. 3. 23. This is His Commandment, that you believe on the Name of his Son. Charge them to accept of Christ Jesus, as their Prince and their Saviour; Charge them to repair unto Christ Jesus for Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption. Lay also upon them that Charge of God, in Mat. 6. 6. Elder into, thy Closer and pray to thy Father in secret. Charge, them to Retire for their Devotions every day; Charge them to let not a day pass them, without Crying to God for His Mercy, and pardon, and Salvation. Once more, Lay upon them that Charge of God. In Prov. 1. 10. My […] Sinners […] thee, consent thou not, Charge them, that they •e not the, Companions of Fools; Charge ⟨p. 52⟩them that they do not associate themselves into an intimacy and a Familiarity with any but such as may be sober, discreet, blameless persons, Finally, Lay upon them that Charge of God in Hag. 1. 5. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your ways. Charge them, that they Consider what their present Condition is, and what their future Condition is like to be; Charge them, that they consider of their past Behaviours, and of the Death, and Judgment, and Eternity which is yet before them. A young man has become a real Convert by being obliged unto Consideration for one Quarter of an Hour in a Day. Wish for them, say to them, Oh that they were wise, that they would Consider! In a word, Let your Charge on them, be that, which Holy Bolton gave to his Children, when he dyed, I charge you, that at the Day of Judgements, none of you dare to meet me in an Unregenerate estate.
Charge them; and this especially about four Things. Lay upon them that Charge of God in 1. Joh. 3. 23. This is His Commandment, that you believe on the Name of his Son. Charge them to accept of Christ Jesus, as their Prince and their Saviour; Charge them to repair unto Christ Jesus for Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption. Lay also upon them that Charge of God, in