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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.
Are there any Back-s•iding Souls, in our Families […] Instruct them suitably, by serving before them the […] sure of God at such as […] and His extreme Wrath on them whose ⟨p. 55⟩Goodness is as the Morning cloud and the early […] and say, Remember whence thou art […], do thy first works. Thus are we to […] the the case of those whom we give Instruction to.
Are there any Back-s•iding Souls, in our Families 〈…〉 Instruct them suitably, by serving before them the 〈…〉 sure of God at such as 〈…〉 and His extreme Wrath on them whose ⟨p. 55⟩Goodness is as the Morning cloud and the early 〈…〉 and say, Remember whence thou art 〈…〉, do thy first works. Thus are we to 〈…〉 the the case of those whom we give Instruction to.
Thirdly. We are to Instruct our Families very Diligently. Tis a thing that we are to labour in. 'Twas […] in Doubt 6. 7. The words which I command the•, thou shall teach them Diligently, […] thy Children! It calls for our Hearts and our Pains. When we set about it, we should think with our selves, We know not now those our Opportunities may be; we know not whether we shall ever speak more to those whom we […] our selves unto. In this as well as in other such Cases, we should hear the voice of out own Uncertainty & Mortality; tis that in […] Do with thy might, what thy hand finds […] there is no work, not wisdom in […] grave […] thou are going. Tis the Work of the Lord, […] which we are when we are, […] our Families, tis, not to be done […] […] in