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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.
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, Th•s saith the Lord, Consider your ways.
But what mean you, O ye inconsiderate Youths, to delay the Remembring of your Creator so? In the Language of the young Prophet, whom God sent unto the Jews of old, let me say, Th•s saith the Lord, Consider your waies.
Consider the Uncertainly of your Life which you have to be praising of God withal. As young as you are, you may die before the most aged person here. It hath been truly noted, That The old man has Death before his face, but the young man has Death behind his back. The stroke of Death may sooner lay you in the Dust, than some whose Heads old Time hath snowed upon. O look, and see, and let thy heart shake at the Apprehension of it: Thy Death stands, just behind ⟨p. 126⟩thee there with an Horrible Pole-Axe ready lifted up, saying as the Prince of old, Shall I smite them? shall I smite them? If the great God utter the word, Smite, smite, thou art gone beyond all Recovery. The Blessed God hath newly caused me to look into the Coffins to two very near and sweet Relations, neither of which had were seen Twenty Winters in the World; and with a strong hand He then said unto me, Go, Go tell the young people of […]. and Charlestown, that this so that which they are all exposed unto. Behold I am now come in Bitterness and in the […] of my spirit, I am come to Warn you of it, That You may die before you are aware of such a dismal Change at hand. O do not procrastinate the praises and the Virtues which the God of Heaven Expects from you; put not off until, Tomorrow; For tis the admonition to be now set before you, in Prov. 2. 7. Boast not thy self of Tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.