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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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Tis to Young People here, that I take leave to say,
Fourthly, Begin You now Betimes to live unto ⟨p. 125⟩the Praise of the everliving God. My Brethren, you have not yet begun to live at all, if you have not begun to praise the Lord. You are Dead in Trespasses and Sins; you are stark dead in the rotten, hideous, loathsome Graves of your Unregeneracy, if you have not yet begun to order your Conversation aright, and to ponder, How may I so offer praise as to Glorify God? But is not this the deplorable Condition of many, many Young people here? Conscience, do thine Office! Is not the Hour yet to come, is not the Day yet to dawn, when that young person (whom thou art the Officer of God unto) did by an hearty Covenant bind himself unto the Serving and the Praising of the Lord?
Fourthly, Begin You now Betimes to live unto ⟨p. 125⟩the Praise of the everliving God. My Brethren, you have not yet begun to live at all, if you have not begun to praise the Lord. You are Dead in Trespasses and Sins; you are stark dead in the rotten, hideous, loathsome Graves of your Unregeneracy, if you have not yet begun to order your Conversation aright, and to ponder, How may I so offer praise as to Glorify God? But is not this the deplorable Condition of many, many Young people here? Conscience, do thine Office! Is not the Hour yet to come, is not the Day yet to dawn, when that young person (whom thon art the Officer of God unto) did by an hearty Convenant bind himselfe unto the Serving and the Praising of the Lord?
But what mean you, O ye inconsiderate Youths, to delay the Remembering of your Creator so? In the Language of the young Prophet, whom God sent unto the Jews of old, let me say, Ths saith the Lord, Consider your ways.