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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
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.
Let us Discern our Time and not Mis-spend our Time. Avoid those Time-wasting things, ⟨p. 73⟩which would serve us about our Time, as the High-way men did the poor Traveller in Luc. 10. 30. in his way to Jericho. We are all Travelling in the the way to Eternity; there are these and those Robbers in the way that would plunder us of our time: shun them, fly them. Count Mis-spence of Time one of the most wicked and woeful follies in the world.
Let us Discern our Time and not Mis-spend our Time. Avoid those Time-wasting things, ⟨p. 73⟩which would serve us about our Time, as the High-way men did the poor Traveller in Luc. 10. 30. in his way to Jericho. We are all Travelling in the the way to Eternity; there are these and those Robbers in the way that would plunder us of our time: shun them, fly them. Count Mis-spence of Time one of the most wicked and woful follies in the world.
Let us discern three things in all Time, and permit no Time to be devoured by two things which we may be under Temptation to.
The things which we are to discern in all Time are these,