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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 the Duties of Worshipping times, be done in those times. We have our times every ⟨p. 79⟩day wherein the Lord saith, seek my Face. Now let the Echo of our souls be that in Psal. 27. 8. Thy Face, Lord, we will seek. We have every day our times for private Prayer, our times for secret Prayer, our times for Reading of, and Thinking on the Word of God. Let those things be faithfully done in those Times.
First. Let the Dutyes of Worshipping times, be done in those times. We have our times every ⟨p. 79⟩day wherein the Lord saith, seek my Face. Now let the Echo of our souls be that in Psal. 27. 8. Thy Face, Lord, we will seek. We have every day our times for private Prayer, our times for secret Prayer, our times for Reading of, and Thinking on the Word of God. Let those things be faithfully done in those Times.
Especially, Remember the Sabbath Day. Let Sabbath-time be sanctified time. On this day, lie all the day long at the pool of Mercy; Mercy, Mercy, and Salvation for an immortal soul is this day to be traded for. Tis a Time that the great God is very Jealous about. He does wonderfully curse the Souls, and blast the Houses, and ruin the Countries where this Holy Time is not acknowledged. He will terribly break the rest of those whom His Rest shall not be regarded by.
Especially, Remember the Sabbath Day. Let Sabbath-time be sanctifyed time. On this day, ly all the day long at the pool of Mercy; Mercy, Mercy, and Salvation for an immortal soul is this day to be traded for. Tis a Time that the great God is very Jealous about. He does wonderfully curse the Souls, and blast the Houses, and ruin the Countryes where this Holy Time is not acknowledged. He will terribly break the rest of those whom His Rest shall not be regarded by.