Compassionate counsel to all young men especially I. London apprentices, II. students of divinity,…

IV. And it will not be unuseful to read some profitable History, especially the Lives of exemplary persons, and the Funeral Sermons which characterize them. I have prefaced to two, which are eminently worth your reading, and most true, both young men, that is, John Janeway's Life, and Joseph Alleins, and given you the true exemplary Characters in their Funeral Sermons of Mr. Ashurst, (an excellent pattern for Apprentices and Tradesmen,) Mr. Stubs, Mr. Corbet, and of Mr. Wadsworth, and Mrs. Baker. Read Mr. Samuel Clark's Lives, and his Martyrology, and his Mirror, Dr. Beards examples, or Fox's Book of Martyrs. Some Church History, and History of the Reformation, and the History of our own Country, will be useful.

IV. And it will not be unuseful to read some profitable History, especially the Lives of exemplary persons, and the Funeral Sermons which characterize them. I have prefaced to two, which are eminently worth your reading, and most true, both young men, that is, Iohn Ianeway's Life, and Ioseph Alleins, and given you the true exemplary Characters in their Funeral Sermons of Mr. Ashurst, (an excellent pattern for Apprentices and Tradesmen,) Mr. Stubs, Mr. Corbet, and of Mr. Wadsworth, and Mrs. Baker. Read Mr. Samuel Clarks Lives, and his Martyrology, and his Mirrour, Dr. Beards examples, or Fox's Book of Martyrs. Some Church History, and History of the Reformation, and the History of our own Country, will be useful.

V. As you grow up to more judgment you may read methodical Sums of Divinity, especially Ames his Marrow, and his Cases of Conscience, (which are in English translated) and Commentaries.

Great store of all sorts of good Books through the great mercy of God are common among us: He that cannot buy, may borrow.