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A50162	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.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.	1689 (1689)	Wing M1153; ESTC W479520	65,669	139

Object will decoy thee into a natural suitable Expression of thy self and as our Lord speaks in Rev. 2. 23. All the Churches shall know that I am He that searcheth the Heart Expect also that the great God will have a Bar for your Detection in another world T is confessed by all Christians as in 2. Cor. 5. 10. We must all appear before the Iudgment seat of Christ. O that we could every one of us now seriously place our selves before the Iudgment seat of God! Remember O immortal souls that you must all very shortly appear before a Iudge who hath Eyes like a flame of fire and you must then be exposed in the full view of Heaven Earth Remember that you shall then have no Vizard no Disguise to cover you but all men and Angels must hear truly what you are It was the warning in Eccl. 11. 9. know thou that God will bring thee to Iudgment Even so Know thou that thou canst not avoid the day when God shall bring every worke into Iudgement with every secret thing Know thou that when the dead small and great stand before God then thou shalt stand among ' em Know thou that tho' thou shouldst then shriek O Rocks hide me or O Mountains-defend me the the Rocks and the Mountains would be deaf unto that lamentable cry Holy Ierom could say Wherever I am or whatever I do Methinks I hear the Alarums of the last Trumpet Arise ye dead come to Iudgement O that you would often Reflect upon the Day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Iesus Christ. Counsil 2. Cry mightily to God that He would give you the Gold which will endure all Tryals whatsoever Our Lord saith unto us in Rev. 3. 18. I counsel thee to buy of me Gold tried in the fire That Gold is Grace let us buy that is let us beg it of Him. Let us make that our servent our frequent Prayer in Psal. 119. 80. Let my heart be sound in thy statutes that I may not be ashamed Be careful and prayerful that you may be New Creatures and have the Root of the matter in your souls Be careful and prayerful That you may have Oyl in your vessels Be careful and prayerful That you may have in you the well of water which springs up into everlasting life Let your prayers be restless till you find that you are indeed Born again indeed Converted indeed Sanctified As for the Grace of God my son seek it as silver for indeed the Gain of it is better than fine gold Counsel 3. Often bring your selves to the Tryals of a Self-Examination T is the Charge of God in 2. Cor. 13. 5. Examine your selves whether you be in the Faith prove your own selves Your souls are as Vessels then Pierce them to see what they have Your souls are as Metals then Touch them to see what they are Such are the Allusions of the Holy Spirit there Know thy self was a golden Rule of Old and it will make a golden Saint when we make much use of that Rule Try thy self We are to use the Word of God as a Glass in which we are to behold our selves and we are often to compare our selves with what is therein required of us When we are in a Meditation as we should every day be upon some Truths of God we should then examine ourselves Whether we are moulded according thereunto And when we are under a Visitation as we sometimes are by the Rods of God we should then Examine our selves as they that of Old said Let us now search and try our wayes Especially when we are approching to the Table of the Lord Self-Examination is not then to be omitted So hath the Apostle urged in 1. Cor. 11. 28. Let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. T is a fearful Impiety and Presumption for a man to sit down at the Holy Supper without enquiring Have I a Wedding garment on or no Yea t is convenient for a man every Evening before he sleeps to examine himself and ask If I dy this night is my immortal spirit safe O tremble exceedingly least your doom should be that in Jer. 2. 37. The Lord hath rejected thy confidences and thou shalt not prosper in them Therefore be much in Examining your selves Examine Whether you have true REPENTANCE Wherefore Try whether you are at so much pains for no Outward and Earthly thing as you are for the mortification of every lust And Try whether Afflictions themselves are welcome to you when you see you sins thereby embittered and subdued Examine Whether you have true FAITH Wherefore Try whether your Souls are extremely affected with the blessed Fulness Glory which is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And Try whether your hearts most affectionately close with the Gospel-way of Salvation by Jesus Ch●ist so as cheerfully to venture the Lives of your souls upon it Examine Whether you have true LOVE Wherefore Try whether any thing that has a Tendency to promote the Honour of God be readily embraced by you as a thing more desirable than all the Riches in the world And Try whether you count no Service too much to be done for the People of the Saints of the Most High. Put the Question to your selves and let the Preface of your Answer be that Request in Psal 139. 23. Search me O God and try me and help me to know my self To be much in such Self-Examination is the way to be a Golden Christian and indeed none but such an one will have a Value for the Exercise II. Let us also approve ourselves as gold under the Dispensations of the Blessed GOD. Particularly First Let them that are in Prosperity behave themselves well under the Tryals of the Lord. It may be that you are come to have store of Gold O that you may Be like what you Have T is possible that you have been in much Distress and Sorrow But God has brought you forth as t is said He brought Israel out of Egypt in Ps 105. 37. He brought them forth with Gold. Consider That God is now Trying of your Faithfulness No doubt you have sometimes promised the God of Heaven That if you might have such a measure of Health and Strength or That if you might have such a Degree of Estate and Honour you would glorify God with a wonderful Activity Well saith our God I 'll try God is trying whether you will be true to those Professions and Engagements which you made before He so smil'd upon you God is trying whether you will not Confirm that Observation in Jer. 17. 9. The Heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked Consider moreover That God is now trying of your Thankfulness A very terrible Wrath is denounced against them in Deut. 28. 47. Who serve not God for the abundance of all things God gives you an Abundance of all things and it is to try

Eternity but now my Time is gone for ever The sh●●ek of a poor man going out of the world sometimes has been A would of Weal●h for an inch of Time. 〈◊〉 t is Wisdom to prevent such things as these The Vse of these things remains USE Let us all he hence advised to Discern and Improve Time which we have to discharge our D●tyes in The most of us t is to be 〈◊〉 may discern Iudgment we know 〈◊〉 our Duty is and How it is to be dispatched 〈…〉 us also discern Time Suffer we not our time to run from us while we neglect the great Ends which we have it for O let not the Lord have cause to complain of us as in Jer. 8. 7. The Birds in the Heaven know their appointed times but my people do not know That we may Discern time and improve time such Directions as these may well be followed Direction I. Let us Discern our Time and not Mis-spend our Time. Avoid those Time-wasting things Which would serve us about our Time as the High-way men did the poor Traveller in Luc. 10. 30. in his way to Iericho We are all Travelling in the the way to Eternity there are these and those Robbers in the way that would plunder us of our time shun them fly them Count Mis-spenc● of Time one of the most wicked and woful follies in the world Let us discern three things in all Time and permit no Time to be devoured by two things which we may be under Temptation to The things which we are to discern in all Time are these First let us discern the Worth of all Time. Let not an hour pass without this opinion of it This hour is too good to be lost If we prise the Jewel we shall not lose it It is for our shame that even an Heathen made that complaint Q●uem mibi dabis qui diem est●met Where will you find a man that esteems his Time as he ought to do Ponder well what a vast price our Lord paid for our Time. We had forfeited all our Tune into the hands of infinite revenging Justice the just wrath of God would have taken away ●ime and Life from us long ago if our Lord Jesus had not laid down such a price as that in 1. Pe● 1. 18. Ye were redeemed not with silver and gold but 〈◊〉 the precious bloud of Iesus Christ. O don't throw away any of that which cost so dea● And ponder well what a vast price the dying the damned set on their Time. We may say of it as Iob of another thing in Cap. 28. 22. Destruction and death say we have heard the fame thereof with our ears Even so Destruction and Death set an high rate upon it Ask men when Destruction and Death is near to seizing upon 'em How much would you give now for a little of the time that is gone They will reply O whole mountains of gold for one hour of it Judge now as you will judge then Secondly Let us Discern the Irrevokableness of our Time. When our time is once gone it remains Irrevokable and Irrecoverable for evermore We may say of every Time that is past as in Psal. 49. 8. It is precious and it ceaseth forever The Wish of Hezekiah could once bring back the shadow of the Sun but never could any man procure a Return of his Time. Sometimes the doleful Cryes of distressed ones have been Call Time again call Time again But alas Time won't come back for Calling Oh how should this make us to takeheed that we don't abuse any part of our Time I shall never have this time again When once our Time has taken wing what is said of Love in Cant. 8. 7. that may be said of Time If a man would give all the substance of his house for it it would utterly be contemned When once Time is gone 't is gone Thirdly let us Discern our Accountableness for all our Time. God maintains us and supplies us with Time continually He keeps a Sun to measure it The time will come when He will reckon with us about all our Time. T is said in Ecc. 11. 9. O young man walk in the wayes of thy heart but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgement In like sort let me say Come squander away thy Time even contrive to get the dead commodity off thy hands but know thou that in the day when God shall judge the world all this Time of thine must be accounted for It was the Law of old in Exod 21. 18. If one man smite another so that he keep his bed and yet walk abroad again he shall pay for his healing and the Loss of his Time Truly so if we impenitently lose any of the Time which God hath given us He will make us pay for it in the day of his pleac●ng with us T is said in Matth. 12. 36. Men shall give an account of every idle wo●d Much more in that day shall men give an account of every idle Hour The God that hath numbred our Hairs hath also numbred our Hou●es It will be a fearful thing if at last He say unto us Thou wicked and slothful servant thy life has been made up of idle hours These things are we to discern in all Time. For the sake hereof let us now permit no Time to be misplac'd in such things as these First Let us mispend no Time in vanity of them that live in vain pleasures 't is said in 1 Tim 5. 6. they are Dead while they live They discrn no Time and enjoy none Too much Time is not to be laid out in Eating and Drinking To affect Long Meals or to tarry long at the Wine does not become a Christian. Thy Soul is a little too noble a thing sure to be made the Cook of thy Body Moreover Too much Time is not to be laid out in Attiring and Adorning It made an holy man among the Ancients to weep when in a morning he ●aw a person longer in Dressing than himself had been in praying Thy Carcase that is to feed the Worms ere long should not put by thy cares about thy Spirit which must be in Weal or Woe for ever Once more Too much Time is not to be laid out in Sporting and Gaming There are some lawful Recrea●ions of which we should be shy lest they steal away our Heart and our Time. That blessed Martyr Iohn Hus just before he dyed in a Letter thus bewaild himself O beg of God to pardon me for the Time I have lost at such a Play that yet in it self was very innocent But there are some unlawful Recreations also in which multitudes play away their Time. The plays which depend upon a pure Lot are such The moral Heathen Zealously reproached them And severe Statutes were made against them when the Roman Empire became a Christian. Men always loose at them those things which are better than any that they win their