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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
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In a Word, Instruct your Families or else the Blood of their Souls will be required at your hands. It was complained of old, in Je•. 2. 34. In thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of poor innocents. What a dreadful word is that! and what a dreadful thing will it be, for your poor Families to follow you in the ever-burning Lake below; shrieking and roaring, If you had done your Duty to us, tis like we had never arrived here.
In a Word, Instruct your Families or else the Blood of their Souls will be required at your hands. It was complain'd of old, in Je•. 2. 34. In thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of poor innocents. What a dreadful word is that! and what a dreadful thing will it be, for your poor Families to follow you in the ever-burning Lake below; shrieking and roaring, If you had done your Duty to us, tis like we had never arrived here.
Consider, Secondly the Usefulness of it.
Instruct your Families and it will issue in their Good. They shall be brought home to God. As he said in Psal 51. 13. I will teach them, and they shall be converted unto thee. You may see converted Children, and converted Servants, filling of your Families. They may bless the name of God for ever, that ever they knew your House, or saw your Face; because you have ⟨p. 64⟩promoted in them that Knowledge which is Life Eternal.