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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.
First, let us discern the Worth of all Time. Let not an hour pass without this opinion of it, This hour is too good to be lost. If we prise the Jewel we shall not lose it. It is for our shame that even an Heathen made that complaint, Quem mihi dabis qui diem estimet? Where will you find a man that esteems his Time as he ought to do? Wonder well what a vast price our Lord paid for our Time. We had forfeited all our Time into the hands of infinite revenging justice; the just wrath of God would have taken away Time and Life from us long ago, if our Lord Jesus had not said down such a price as that in 1. Pet. 1. 18. Ye were redeemed, not with […] and gold, but with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. O don't throw away any of that which cost so dear.
First, let us discern the Worth of all Time. Let not an hour pass without this opinion of it, This hour is too good to be lost. If we prise the Jewel we shall not lose it. It is for our shame that even an Heathen made that complaint, Quem mihi dabis qui diem estimet? Where will you find a man that esteems his Time as he ought to do? Wonder well what a vast price our Lord paid for our Time. We had forfeited all our Time into the hands of infinite revenging justice; the just wrath of God would have taken away Time and Life from us long ago, if our Lord Jesus had not said down such a price as that in 1. Pet. 1. 18. Ye were redeemed, not with 〈…〉 and gold, but with the precious bloud of Jesus Christ. O don't throw away any of that which cost so dear.
And ponder well what a vast price the dying & ⟨p. 74⟩the damned set on their Time. We may say of it as Job of another thing, in Cap. 28. 22. Destruction and death, say, we have heard the fame thereof with our ears. Even so, Destruction and Death set an high rate upon it. Ask men when Destruction and Death is near to seizing upon 'em, How much would you give now for a little of the time that is gone? They will reply, O, whole mountains of gold for one hour of it! Judge now as you will judge then.