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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.
The Tenth Reason, Why young persons should be really good (in good earnest) betimes, and that is, because Death may suddenly ⟨p. 48⟩and unexpectedly seize upon you, 1you have no lease of your lives. Youth is as fickle as old age, the young man may find Graves enough of his length in burial places; as green wood, and old logs meet in one fire, so young Sinners, and old Sinners meet (in one hell) and burn together; when the young man is in his spring, 2and prime, then he is cut off and dies, one dieth in his full strength (or in the strength of his perfection, 3as the Hebrew hath it) being wholly at ease and quiet. His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. Davids children dies when young, so did Jobs, and Jeroboam's, &c. Every days experience tell us, that the young mans life is as much a vapour, as the old mans is.
The Tenth Reason, Why young persons should bee really good (in good earnest) betimes, and that is, because Death may suddenly ⟨p. 48⟩and unexpectedly seize upon you, 1you have no lease of your lives. Youth is as fickle as old age, the young man may finde Graves enough of his length in buriall places; as green wood, and old logs meet in one fire, so young Sinners, and old Sinners meet (in one hell) and burn together; when the young man is in his spring, 2and prime, then hee is cut off and dies, one dieth in his full strength (or in the strength of his perfection, 3as the Hebrew hath it) being wholly at ease and quiet. His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. Davids children dies when young, so did Jobs, and Jeroboams, &c. Every days experience tell us, that the young mans life is as much a vapour, as the old mans is.