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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
THE GOOD MANS RESOLUTION. › Section 5 › Proposition 3 › Reason 1: REASON. 1.
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REASON. 1.
We should engage our Houses to the Service of God, out of Respect to God Himself. To the ⟨p. 15⟩Householder it may well be said, For God's sake look after thy House; For God's sake, Let there be God's Service in it. To speak particularly,
First, The Commandment of God calls for it. We have this Commandment often repeated unto us. That we should be careful about the Instruction and Conversion of them that we are charged with. Tis a Commandment inculcated in the Old Testament. We have in Deut. 6. 6, 7. The words which I command thee, thou shalt diligently teach them unto thy Children. We have it again, in Psal. 78. 67. He commanded our fathers, that they should make known unto their Children, that these might set their hope in God, and keep his Commandments. We have it once more in Deut. 4. 9, 10. Gather the people, that they may learn to fear me, and that they may teach their Children. Tis a Commandment not unmentioned in the New Testament also. We find in Eph. 6. 4. Ye Fathers, bring up your Children in the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord. Behold, How many solemn Charges are laid upon us to do our part, […] God may be served by all that are under our inspection. God does Command us, to command them, thereabout.
First, The Commandment of God calls for it. We have this Commandment often repeated unto us. That we should be careful about the Instruction and Conversion of them that we are charged with. Tis a Commandment inculcated in the Old Testament. We have in