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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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Let us all be hence advised to Discern and Improve Time, which we have to discharge our Duties in. The most of us, tis to be hoped, may discern Judgment; we know What our Duty is, and How it is to be dispatched. But let us also discern Time: Suffer we not our time to run from us while we neglect the great Ends which we have it for. O let not the Lord have cause to complain of us as in Jer. 8. 7. The Birds in the Heaven know their appointed times, but my people do not know.
Let us all be hence advised to Discern and Improve Time, which we have to discharge our Dutyes in. The most of us, tis to be hop'd, may discern Judgment; we know What our Duty is, and How it is to be dispatched. But let us also discern Time: Suffer we not our time to run from us while we neglect the great Ends which we have it for. O let not the Lord have cause to complain of us as in Jer. 8. 7. The Birds in the Heaven know their appointed times, but my people do not know.
That we may Discern time, and improve time such Directions as these may well be followed.