A29676:177
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
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, when once you come to experience the goodness and sweetness that is in the Lord, and in his word, and ⟨p. 93⟩ways, you will then sit down, and grieve that you have spent more Wine in the Cup, than Oil in the Lamp. There are no pleasures so delighting, so satisfying, so ravishing, so engaging, and s• abiding, as those that springs from union, and communion with God, as those that flows from a sense of interest in God, and from an humble and a holy walking with God.
Ah! Young men, when once you come to experience the goodnesse and sweetness that is in the Lord, and in his word, and ⟨p. 93⟩wayes, you will then sit down, and grieve that you have spent more Wine in the Cup, than Oil in the Lamp. There are no pleasures so delighting, so satisfying, so ravishing, so engaging, and s• abiding, as those that springs from union, and communion with God, as those that flows from a sense of interest in God, and from an humble and a holy walking with God.
The third sin of youth is rashness, they many times know little, and fear less, and so are apt rashly to run on, and run out often to their hurt, 1but more often to their hazard. 2Exhort young men to be sober-minded, or discreet. They are apt to be rash, to be hot spurs. As you may see in Rehoboams young Counsellors, who counselled him to tell the people (that groaned under their burdens) that his little finger should be thicker than his Fathers loins, 3and that he would add to their yoke; and that whereas his Father ⟨p. 94⟩