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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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Direction, II.
Let us Discern our Time, and Attend every Duty in the proper Time.
There is a two-fold Prudence which the Wise man's heart is to be no stranger to.
The First Prudence is,
Let no Duty be done out of its Time. We are told in Eccles. 3. 11. God hath made every thing beautiful in the Time of it. There is a Nick of Time that we are to take for all we do. Not Snow but Fruit is beautiful in the Summer. Tis ⟨p. 78⟩not beautiful for the Duty of Prayer, to be done at a sleepy time, or at a busy time. Tis not beautiful for the Duty of Reproof to be done at a time when it can do no good at all. Set not upon this or that Duty at a time when God calls to another Duty. Tis said in