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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.
Secondly, We are to Instruct our Families very pertinently. Accommodate our Instructions to their Conditions.
Are there any Unconverted persons in our Families? Let them […] instructed. Say to them as in Psal. 34. […] Hearken to me and I will Teach you the Fear of the Lord. Let them be warned of the Dangers, which do threaten their miserable, souls; and let them be stirred to the Duties, that may lay them at the Pool, in the way of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Are there any Unconverted persons in our Familes? Let them 〈…〉 instructed. Say to them as in Psal. 34. 〈…〉 Hearken to me and I will Teach you the Fear of the Lord. Let them be warned of the Dangers, which do threaten their miserable, souls; and let them be stirred to the Duties, that may lay them at the Pool, in the way of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Are there any Converted persons, to our Families? Let them too be suitably Instructed, 'We read in Joh. 8. 31. Jesus said unto the Jews which believed on Him, continue in my word. Let them he quickened to continue in their Faith, and Love and Zoal. Let them have Weapons to furnish them against all their Difficulties, and Cordials to Revive them under all their Discouragements.
Are there any Converted persons, to our Families? Let them too be suitably Instructed, 'We read in Joh. 8. 31