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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.
What Special Works for the Glory of God, may and should be Attended by the Children of Men, when by the hard weather of the Winter, He shuts them up, or Hinders them from their Ordinary Businesses?
They are not only Commoda, or Profitable Things, but also Accommoda, or Seasonable Things which are to be Preached among you. Our Winter is our Leisure, and as it will be a Profitable, so 'tis but a Seasonable Undertaking, to Lay before you, How the Leisure of the Winter may be most Improved for the Glory of God.
They are not only Commoda, or Profitable Things, but also Accommoda, or Seasonable Things which are to be Preached among you. Our Winter is our Liesure, and as it will be a Profitable, so 'tis but a Seasonable Undertaking, to Lay before you, How the Liesure of the Winter may be most Improved for the Glory of God.
Now, without any further Preface, First, that we may speak more Negatively, it is to be asserted, That the Leisure of the Winter must not be Abused, as if it were a Leisure to work Abominations, or as if it were a Leisure for any Superstitious or Prohibited Sensualities. 'Tis not in the Slothful and ⟨p. 7⟩Frothy Diversions of Bad Company, nor in things which will wrong our Souls, that our Winter is to be Sweeled away. I am sure, The Abominable Works of Sin, are none of those works, which we are to mind, when God shuts up our Hands; No, we should keep our own Hands for ever shut up from such works as those. Indeed, we spend the Nights of our Winter as a Tale that is told; but we should not spend them in such Idle Things, as the Telling of Tales; nor should we give cause for a poor Tale to be told, about our way of spending them. Tho' our Winter-Days have not so much Light as Darkness in them, yet we should all the Winter long behave our selves as the Children of Light, and have no Fellowship with the Unfruitful Works of Darkness. 'Tis the Advice of the Apostle, in