A29676:326
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.
Sir Francis Bacon also in his History of Henry the Seventh, relates how it was a common by-word of the Lord Cords, that he would be content to lye seven years in hell, so he might win Calais from the English; but if thou O young man art given up to such desperate Atheism, and carnal Apprehensions of Hell; I am afraid God will ⟨p. 207⟩confute thee one day by fire and brimstone, but I would willingly hope better things of all those young persons, into whose hands this Treatise shall fall, and thus you see what things must be declined and avoided, if ever you would be good betimes, if ever you would seek and serve the Lord in the spring and morning of your days.
Sir Francis Bacon also in his History of Henry the Seventh, relates how it was a common by-word of the Lord Cordes, that hee would bee content to lye seven years in hell, so hee might win Calice from the English; but if thou O young man art given up to such desperate Atheisme, and carnal Apprehensions of Hell; I am affraid God will ⟨p. 207⟩confute thee one day by fire and brimstone, but I would willingly hope better things of all those young persons, into whose hands this Treatise shall fall, and thus you see what things must bee declined and avoided, if ever you would be good betimes, if ever you would seek and serve the Lord in the spring and morning of your daies.
But in the second place, as those things must be declined, so other things must carefully and diligently be practised, if ever you would be good betimes. I shall instance only in those that are most considerable and weighty, as
But in the second place, as those things must bee declined, so other things must carefully and diligently bee practised, if ever you would be good betimes. I shall instance onely in those that are most considerable and weighty, as