The Fifth Exception.
Tis possible a fifth person may have uncomfor∣table cause to plead,
Small offers towards the service of the tabernacle in the wilderness four discourses accommodated unto the designs of practical godliness : preached partly at Boston, partly at Charleston / by Cotton Mather ; published by a gentleman lately restored from threatening sickness as a humble essay to serve the interest of religion, in gratitude unto God for his recovery.
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- Small offers towards the service of the tabernacle in the wilderness four discourses accommodated unto the designs of practical godliness : preached partly at Boston, partly at Charleston / by Cotton Mather ; published by a gentleman lately restored from threatening sickness as a humble essay to serve the interest of religion, in gratitude unto God for his recovery.
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- Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
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- [Boston] :: Printed by R. Pierce, sold by Jos. Brunning,
- 1689.
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- Christian life.
- Piety.
- Spiritual life.
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"Small offers towards the service of the tabernacle in the wilderness four discourses accommodated unto the designs of practical godliness : preached partly at Boston, partly at Charleston / by Cotton Mather ; published by a gentleman lately restored from threatening sickness as a humble essay to serve the interest of religion, in gratitude unto God for his recovery." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50162.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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I have those in my Family that will not be In∣structed; I can't Order them so far as to make them submit unto it.
In this unhappy Case, What shall be done but this? We are to pray for these Creatures, that their Hearts may be tam••d and bow••d by Him, that has them in His Hand. We are also to watch when some Affliction or some Amazement is come upon them: then God opens their ear to Discipline; then the Wild Asses are in the Month where you may find them. We may likewise call in the help of some grave, pious, holy Minister, who may come to them with the spirit and pow∣er of Elias, To turn the hearts of the Children to their Fathers.
Finally. If your Children refuse to be Instruct∣ed, What saies the Wise man, A Rod for the fools back. If your Servants refuse to be In∣structed, What saies the Good man, He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house.