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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, We are to Instruct our Families very Seasonably. We are told in Matth, 24. 45. The Ruler over the Household is to give them their meat in due Season. There lies much in the Time we take for the Work. We should indeed have our Frequent Times, to do it. We should speak what may be for the Instruction for our Families, ⟨p. 53⟩every day, and often in a day; and on various occasions be dropping our savoury Admonitions. Even when we sit at the Table, we should rarely Rise without feeding the Minds, as well as the Mouths of our Attendants. Much more at the Hours of Prayer, we should do something that may make them more acquainted with Divine Objects than they were before. But we should likewise have our Stated Times to do it. Especially Sacred Time will be very properly a Stated Time for it. On the Days of the Lord, we should instruct our Houses in the Things of the Lord; that were infinitely better than to be Sleeping or Talking at an idle rate, as then too many do.
First, We are to Instruct our Families very Seasonably. We are told in Matth, 24. 45. The Ruler over the Household is to give them their meat in due Season. There lies much in the Time we take for the Work. We should indeed have our Frequent Times, to do it. We should speak what may be for the Instruction for our Families, ⟨p. 53⟩every day, and often in a day; and on various occasions be dropping our favoury Admonitions. Even when we sit at the Table, we should rarely Rise without feeding the Minds, as well as the Mouthes of our Attendents. Much more at the Hours of Prayer, we should do something that may make them more acquainted with Divine Objects than they were before. But we should likewise have our Stated Times to do it. Especially Sacred Time will be very properly a Stated Time for it. On the Dayes of the Lord, we should instruct our Houses in the Things of the Lord; that were infinitely better than to be Sleeping or Talking at an idle rate, as then too many do.