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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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These things are we to discern in all Time. For the sake hereof, let us now permit no Time to be misplaced in such things as these.
These things are we to discern in all Time. For the sake hereof, let us now permit no Time to be misplac'd in such things as these.
First, Let us misspend no […], of them that live in vain pleasures 'tis said in Tim 5. 6. they are Dead while they live. They discern ⟨p. 76⟩no Time, and enjoy none. Too much Time is not be laid out in Fating and Drinking. To affect Long Meals, or to carry long at the Wine, does not become a Christian. Thy Soul is a little too noble a thing •ure to be made the Cook of thy Body. Moreover. Too much Time is not to be laid out in Attiring and Adorning. It made an holy man among the Ancients to weep, when in a morning he saw a person longer in Dressing, than himself had been in praying, Thy Carcass that is to feed the Worms ere long should not put by thy cares about thy Spirit, which must be in Weal or W•e for ever. Once more Too much Time is not to be laid out in […] and […]. There are some lawful Recreations, of which we should be shy, lest they steal away our Heart and our Time. That blessed Martin John Hu•, just before he dyed, in a Letter thus bewailed himself, O beg of God to pardon me for the Time I have lost at such a Play, that yet in it self was very innocent. But there are some unlawful Recreations also in which multitudes play away their Time. The plays which […] upon a pure Lot are such. The moral He then zealou••, reproached them. And severe Stations were made against them when the Roman Empire became a Christian. Men always loose at them, those things which are better than any that they win their Time, if not their Soul.
First, Let us mispend no 〈…〉, of them that live in vain pleasures 'tis said in Tim 5. 6. they are Dead while they live. They disern