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Apples of gold for young men and women, and a crown of glory for…Apples of gold for young men and vvomen, and a crown of glory for…
Apples of gold for young men and women, and a crown of glory for old men and women. Or, The happiness of being good betimes, and the honour of being an old disciple Clearly and fully discovered, and closely, and faithfully applied. Also the young mans objections answered, and the old mans doubts resolved. By Thomas Brooks preacher of the gospel at Margarets new Fishstreet-hill.Apples of gold for young men and vvomen, and a crown of glory for old men and women. Or, The happiness of being good betimes, and the honour of being an old disciple Clearly and fully discovered, and closely, and faithfully applyed. Also the young mans objections answered, and the old mans doubts resolved. By Thomas Brooks preacher of the gospel at Margarets new Fishstreet-hill.
London: printed by R.I. for John Hancock, 1657
THE Young-Mans Duty AND EXCELLENCY. › The Young mans Duty and Excellency.
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.
Ah young men! young men, if you do not begin to be good betimes, those sins that are now as Jewels sparkling in your eyes, 1will at last be millstones about your necks, to sink you for ever. —Among many things that Beza in his last will and Testament, gave God thanks for, this was the first and chief, that he at the age of sixteen years, had called him to the knowledge of the truth, and so prevented many sins and sorrows that otherwise would have overtaken him, and have made his life less happy, and more miserable. Young Saints often prove old Angels, 2but old sinners seldom prove good Saints, &c.
Ah young men! young men, if you do not begin to bee good betimes, those sins that are now as Jewels sparkling in your eyes, 1will at last bee milstones about your necks, to sink you for ever. —Among many things that Beza in his last will and Testament, gave God thanks for, this was the first and chief, that hee at the age of sixteen years, had called him to the knowledge of the truth, and so prevented many sins and sorrows that otherwise would have overtaken him, and have made his life lesse happy, and more miserable. Young Saints often prove old Angels, 2but old sinners seldome prove good Saints, &c.
- 1Psal. 25.7. Job 13.26.
- 2There is nothing puts a more serious frame into a mans spirit than to know the worth of his time.