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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 2: REASON. II.
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REASON. II.
We should engage our Houses to the Service of God, out of Respect to our Houses too. Tis said A righteous man regards the life of his beast. How much more will a righteous man regard the ⟨p. 17⟩state of his House? We have two things also to be particularized here.
First, our Houses are miserable through' us, if they do not serve God. It is hinted as a most extraordinary misery upon any person, in Prov. 5. 35. He shall die without instruction. […] and woeful will be the case of those in our Houses, whom our Instruction shall not endear the Service of God unto. Our Houses are starving, while our God is not serving in them. The Prophet said in Lam. 2. 11. Mine eyes do fail with tears, because the children swoon in the streets of the city; they say to their mothers, where is the corn? O doleful spectacle! But while our Children are strangers to God, there is a worse Famine in our Houses, we suffer their Souls to pine and perish without the Bread of life. Yea, our Houses are Burning while our God is not Serving in them. What a terrible desolation was that on Sodom! in allusion to which, tis said of a wicked man, in Job. 18. 15. Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. Why, there is a dreadful storm of ardent Brimstone, ready to fall upon those Houses, where the Children are not bringing up for God; the Wrath of God, like an horrible Tempest of burning Brimstone is impending over them. What shall I say more? Our poor Children are enslaved unto Satan, until they come to be serving of God If a Devil bed a Bodily Possession of our Children, how ⟨p. 18⟩