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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 15 › Exception 5: The Fifth Exception.
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The Fifth Exception.
Tis possible a fifth person may have uncomfortable cause to plead,
I have those in my Family that will not be Instructed; I can't Order them so far as to make them submit unto it.
In this unhappy Case, What shall be done but this? We are to pray for these Creatures that their Hearts may be tamed and bowed by Him, that has them in His Hand. We are also to watch when some Affliction or some Amazement is come upon them: then God opens their ear to Discipline; then the Wild Asses are in the Month where you may find them. We may likewise call in the help of some grave, pious, holy Minister, who may come to them with the spirit and power of Elijah, To turn the hearts of the Children to their Fathers.
In this unhappy Case, What shall be done but this? We are to pray for these Creatures that their Hearts may be tam'd and bow'd by Him, that has them in His Hand. We are also to watch when some Affliction or some Amazement is come upon them: then God opens their ear to Discipline; then the Wild Asses are in the Month where you may find them. We may likewise call in the help of some grave, pious, holy Minister, who may come to them with the spirit and power of Elias, To turn the hearts of the Children to their Fathers.