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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. › 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.
First, If ever you would be ⟨p. 172⟩good betimes, if you would be gracious in the spring and morning of your youth, Oh then take heed of putting the day of death far from you. 1Young men are very prone to look upon death afar off, to put it at a great distance from them, they are apt to say to death, 2as Pharaoh said to Moses, Get thee from me, and let me see thy face no more; if old men discourse to them of death, they are ready to answer as the High-Priest did Judas (in a different case) what is that to us, 3look you unto it? we know sickness will come, and death is a debt that we must all pay, but surely these guests are a great way from us, for doth not David say, 4The days of a man are threescore years and ten? we have calculated our nativities, and we cannot abate a day, a minute, a moment of threescore and ten; and therefore it is even a death to us to think of death, there being so great a distance between our birth-day, and our ⟨p. 173⟩dying-day, as we have cast up the account.
First, If ever you would bee ⟨p. 172⟩good betimes, if you would bee gracious in the spring and morning of your youth, Oh then take heed of putting the day of death far from you. 1Young men are very prone to look upon death afar off, to put it at a great distance from them, they are apt to say to death, 2as Pharaoh said to Moses, Get thee from mee, and let mee see thy face no more; if old men discourse to them of death, they are ready to answer as the High-Priest did Judas (in a different case) what is that to us,