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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
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.
Sirs, do not delude and befool your own souls, if you are not as wicked as others, 1you shall not be as much tormented as others, but yet you shall be as certainly damned as others, you shall as certain to hell as others, you shall as sure be shut out for ever from God, Christ, Saints, Angels, and all the treasures, ⟨p. 203⟩pleasures, and glories of Heaven, as others, except it be prevented, by timely repentance on your side, and pardoning mercy on Gods. Wilt thou count it madness Oh young man in him that is sick to reason thus, I am not so sick as such and such, and therefore I will not send to the Physician, and in the wounded man to say, I am not so desperately wounded as such and such, and therefore I will not send to the Surgeon; and in the traitor to say, I am not guilty of so many foul and heinous treasons as such and such, and therefore I will not look after a pardon; and in the necessitous man, to say, I am not so hard put to it as such and such, and therefore I will not welcome a hand of charity? and wilt thou not count it the greatest madness in the world for thee to put off thy repentance, and thy returning to the Lord in the spring and morning of thy youth, because that thou art not as sinful ⟨p. 204⟩as wicked as such and such, if to have a softer bed, a milder punishment in hell, than others, will satisfy thee, then go on; but if thou art afraid of the worm that never dyes, and of the fire that never goes out, being like that stone in Arcadia, which being once kindled, could not be quenched; O then begin to be good betimes; O seek and serve the Lord in the spring and morning of your days!2
Sirs, do not delude and befool your own souls, if you are not as wicked as others, 1you shall not bee as much tormented as others, but yet you shall bee as certainly damned as others, you shall as certain to hell as others, you shall as sure bee shut out for ever from God, Christ, Saints, Angels, and all the treasures, ⟨p. 203⟩