N00528:40
Winter-meditations directions how to employ the leisure [sic] of the winter for the glory…Winter-meditations directions how to employ the liesure [sic] of the winter for the glory…
Winter-meditations directions how to employ the leisure [sic] of the winter for the glory of God. : Accompanied with reflections, as well historical, as theological, not only upon the circumstances of the winter, but also, upon the notable works of God, both in, creation, and providence: especially those, which more immediately concern every particular man, in the whole course of his life: and upon the religious works, wherewith every man should acknowledge God, in and from the accidents of the winter. / By Cotton Mather. ; With a preface of the Reverend, Mr. John Higginson.Winter-meditations directions how to employ the liesure [sic] of the winter for the glory of God. : Accompanied with reflections, as well historical, as theological, not only upon the circumstances of the winter, but also, upon the notable works of God, both in, creation, and providence: especially those, which more immediately concern every particular man, in the whole course of his life: and upon the religious works, wherewith every man should acknowledge God, in and from the accidents of the winter. / By Cotton Mather. ; With a preface of the Reverend, Mr. John Higginson.
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris over-against the Old-Meeting-House, 1693
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.
That most Laborious and most Imitable Minister of the Gospel, the Apostle Paul, after he had been Travelling on the Designs of the Gospel all the Summer long, had some affairs of the Gospel to manage in the Winter too. Speaking about a City of Thrace, he said, in Tit. 3. 12. I have determined there to winter: and accordingly in the Acts of the Apostles, we find this famous Doctor of the Gentiles once abode three months in Greece, after he had given much Exhortation to the People as he went along. It seems the Service of the Lord Jesus ⟨p. 2⟩Christ, and of His Gospel, was not in the Three Months of the Winter, to be laid aside.
THat most Laborious and most Imitable Minister of the Gospel, the Apostle Paul, after he had been Travelling on the Designs of the Gospel all the Summer long, had some affairs of the Gospel to manage in the Winter too. Speaking about a City of Thrace, he said, in Tit. 3. 12. I have determined there to winter: and accordingly in the Acts of the Apostles, we find this famous Doctor of the Gentiles once abode three months in Greece, after he had given much Exhortation to the People as he went along. It seems the Service of the Lord Jesus ⟨p. 2⟩Christ, and of His Gospel, was not in the Three Months of the Winter, to be laid aside.
As for Us, we are now getting into our Winter-Quarters, and we ought not only to […] our Cares about Religion, & Salvation and all the Works of▪ the Gospel, all the Winter long; but there are some singular Lessons of the Gospel to be in these Winter Months inculcated and entertained. Indeed, there is not One-Day in the Year, whereon we should not be, In the •ear of the Lord all the Day long; but there are diverse Months in the Year, wherein the Fear of God is to single out some special was of Exercise: