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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. › Good Couns to Young men
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Sixthly, and lastly, If you would be good betimes, then take heed of comparing your selves with those that are worse than your selves. 1Young men are very apt to compare themselves with those that are worse than themselves, and this proves a snare unto them, yea oftentimes their bane, their ruin; As it did the young Pharisee in the Gospel, 2who pleaded his negative Righteousness, he was not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, and stood on his comparative goodness, nor as this Publican; he stands not only upon his comparisons, but upon his disparisons, being blind at home, and too quick-sighted abroad, he contemneth and condemneth the poor Publican who was better than himself; making good, that saying of Seneca the nature of man, saith he, is very apt (utimur perspicillis magis quam speculis) to use spectacles to behold other mens faults, rather ⟨p. 202⟩than looking-glasses to behold our own; such Pharisees do justly incur the censure which that sour Philosopher past upon Grammarians, 3that they were better acquainted with the evil of Ulysses, than with their own.
Sixthly, and lastly, If you would bee good betimes, then take heed of comparing your selves with those that are worse than your selves. 1Young men are very apt to compare themselves with those that are worse than themselves, and this proves a snare unto them, yea oftentimes their bane, their ruine; As it did the young Pharisee in the Gospel, 2who pleaded his negative Righteousnesse, hee was not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, and stood on his comparative goodnesse, nor as this Publican; hee stands not only upon his comparisons, but upon his disparisons, being blind at home, and too quick-sighted abroad, hee contemneth and condemneth the poor Publican who was better than himself; making good, that saying of Seneca the nature of man, saith hee, is very apt (utimur perspicillis magis quam speculis) to use spectacles to behold other mens faults, rather