A29676:360
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.
The very heathens did admire that saying as an Oracle (nosce teipsum) know and be acquainted with thy own self. The main exhortation of Chilo one of the seven Sages, was, know thy self. And Plato recordeth, that this saying of Chilo, know thy self, was written in letters of Gold, upon the Portal of Apollos Temple.
The very heathens did admire that saying as an Oracle (nosce teipsum) know and bee acquainted with thy own self. The main exhortation of Chilo one of the seven Sages, was, know thy self. And Plato recordeth, that this saying of Chilo, know thy self, was written in letters of Gold, upon the Portal of Apolloes Temple.
Juvenal saith, that this saying know thy self came from heaven. Macrobius saith, that the Oracle of Apollo being demanded what course should be taken for attaining to felicity? answered, only teach a man to know himself.
Juvenal saith, that this saying know thy self came from heaven. Macrobius saith, that the Oracle of Apollo being demanded what course should bee taken for attaining to felicity? answered, onely teach a man to know himself.
Thus you see that both Divinity and Philosophy doth agree in this, that the best and surest way to true felicity, is, to know our selves, to acquaint our selves with our selves.