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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 no Time pass away without its Duty: Let none of our times be unaccompanied with the Duties which belong unto them. As now, there are Duties that belong to a time of Prosperity, and Duties which belong to a Time of Adversity.
Tis said in Eccles. 7. 14. In the day of Prosperity be joyful, but in the day of Adversity Consider. In a time of Prosperity: now is a time for men to Remember their Creator before the evil days come; Now is a time for men to set their heart and their soul to seek the Lord who hath given them rest on every side. In a time of Adversity, now is a time for men to bring sin to remembrance; now is a time for men to […] the Lord in all the ways of Repentance and Obedience. This is to Discern the Time. But there are especially three sorts of times which we are to fill with the Duties of those Times.
Tis said in Eccles. 7. 14. In the day of Prosperity be joyful, but in the day of Adversity Consider. In a time of Prosperity: now is a time for men to Remember their Creator before the evil days come; Now is a time for men to set their heart and their soul to seek the Lord who hath given them rest on every side. In a time of Adversity, now is a time for men to bring sin to remembrance; now is a time for men to 〈…〉 the Lord in all the ways of Repentance and Obedience. This is to Discern the Time. But there are especially three sorts of times which we are to fill with the Dutyes of those Times.
First. Let the Duties of Worshipping times, be done in those times. We have our times every ⟨p. 79⟩