A29676:191
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. › Encouragements to Young men
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, Christ gave himself up to death, he made himself an offering for your sins, for your sakes, when he was in the prime and flower of his age, and why ⟨p. 107⟩then should you put off Christ to old age? Did he dye for Sin in the prime of his age? and will not you dye to sin in the prime of your age? Did he offer himself for you in the spring and morning of his years? and will not you offer up your selves to him in the spring and morning of your years? 1O give not Christ cause to say, I dyed for you betimes! but you have not lived to me betimes, I was early in my suffering for you, but you have not been early in your returning to me, I made haste to complete your redemption, but you have made no haste to make sure your vocation, and election: I stayed not, 2I lingered not, but soon suffered what I was to suffer, and quickly did what was to be done for your eternal welfare, but you have stayed and lingered (like Lot in Sodom) and have not done what you might have done in order to your everlasting good, 3in the Prime-rose of my days I sweat ⟨p. 108⟩for you, I wept for you, I bled for you, I hung on the cross for you, I bore the wrath of my father for you; but you have not in the Primrose of your days sweat under the sense of divine displeasure; nor wept over your sins, nor mourned over me whom you have so often grieved and pierced; 4I could not be quiet nor satisfied till I had put you into a capacity, into a possibility of Salvation, and yet you are well enough quieted and satisfied, though you do not know whether ever you shall be saved.
Ah! Young men, young men, Christ gave himself up to death, hee made himself an offering for your sins, for your sakes, when he was in the prime and flower of his age, and why ⟨p. 107⟩