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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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To think often of Hell, is the way to be preserved from falling into hell. Ah! Young men, Young men, that you would often consider of the bitterness, of the damned's torments, and of the pitilessness of their torments, and of the diversity of their torments, and of the easelesnes of their torments, and of the remedilessness of their torments. (Momentaneum est quod delectat, Aeternum quod cruciat.) The sinners delight here is momentany, that which torments hereafter is perpetual; when a ⟨p. 205⟩Sinner is in hell, dost thou think Oh young man, that another Christ shall be found to dye for him, or that the same Christ will be crucified again for him, or that another Gospel should be preached to him, Surely no.
To think often of Hell, is the way to be preserv'd from falling into hell. Ah! Young men, Young men, that you would often consider of the bitterness, of the damneds torments, and of the pittilesness of their torments, and of the diversity of their torments, and of the easelesnes of their torments, and of the remedilesness of their torments. (Momentaneum est quod delectat, Aeternum quod cruciat.) The sinners delight here is momentany, that which torments hereafter is perpetual; when a ⟨p. 205⟩Sinner is in hell, dost thou think Oh young man, that another Christ shall be found to dye for him, or that the same Christ will bee crucifyed again for him, or that another Gospel should bee preached to him, Surely no.
Ah, Why then wilt thou not betimes return and seek out after the things that belong to thy everlasting Peace. 1I have read of Pope Clement the fifth, that when a young Nephew of his dyed, he sent his Chaplain to a Necromancer, to know of him how it fared with him in the other World, the Conjurer showed him to the Chaplain lying in a fiery bed in hell, which when the Pope understood, he never joyed more, &c.