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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.
O grasp to day the diadem of a blessed eternity: least thou art cut off before the morning comes, though there is but one way to come into this world, yet there is a thousand thousand ways to be sent out of this world; well young men and women remember this, as the motions of the soul are quick, so are the motions of divine justice quick also, and if you will not hear the voice of God to day; if you will not provide for eternity to day. God may swear to morrow that you shall never enter into his rest; it is a very sad and dangerous thing to trifle and dally with God, his word, his offers, our own souls, and eternity: therefore let all young People labour to be good betimes, and not to let him that is goodness it self alone, till he hath made them good, till he hath given them those hopes of eternity that will both make them good, and keep them ⟨p. 33⟩good; that will make them happy, and keep them happy, and that for ever; if all this will not do, then know, that ere long those fears of eternity, of misery, that begets that monster, Despair, which like Medusa's head, astonisheth with its very aspect, and strangles hope, which is the breath of the soul, will certainly overtake you; as it is said, Dumb Spiro Spero, so it may be inverted Dumb Spero Spiro, other miseries may wound the spirit, but despair kills it dead; my prayer shall be that none of you, may ever experience this sad truth, but that you may all be good in good earnest betimes, which will yield you two heavens, a heaven on earth, and a heaven after death.
O graspe to day the diadem of a blessed eternity: least thou art cut off before the morning comes, though there is but one way to come into this world, yet there is a thousand thousand ways to bee sent out of this world; well young men and women remember this, as the motions of the soul are quick, so are the motions of divine justice quick also, and if you will not hear the voice of God to day; if you will not provide for eternity to day. God may swear to morrow that you shall never enter into his rest; it is a very sad and dangerous thing to trifle and dally with God, his word, his offers, our own souls, and eternity: therefore let all young People labour to bee good betimes, and not to let him that is goodness it self alone, till hee hath made them good, till hee hath given them those hopes of eternity that will both make them good, and keep them ⟨p. 33⟩