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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.
Seneca was wont to jeer the Jews for their ill husbandry, in that they lost one day in seven; meaning their Sabbath; O that it were not too true of the most of professors both young and old, that they loose not only one day in seven, but several days in seven.
Seneca was wont to jeer the Jews for their ill husbandry, in that they lost one day in seven; meaning their Sabbath; O that it were not too true of the most of professors both young and old, that they loose not onely one day in seven, but several days in seven.
Sirs, Time let slip cannot be recalled, the foolish Virgins found it so, and Saul found it so, and Herod found it so, 1and Nero found it so, the Israelites found it so, yea, and Jacob, and Josiah, and David (though good men) yet they found it so to their cost.
Sirs, Time let slip cannot bee recal'd, the foolish Virgins found it so, and Saul found it so, and Herod found it so, 1and Nero found it so, the Israelites found it so, yea, and Jacob, and Josiah, and David (though good men) yet they found it so to their cost.
The Egyptians draw the picture of Time with three heads, the first of a greedy Wolf, gaping for time past, because it hath