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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.
Ah Friends, It is a diminution of Christs dignity, sufficiency, and glory, in the business of your salvation, to join any thing with the Lord Jesus, and it is the greatest disparagement in the World to your own judgments, knowledge, Prudence, and wisdom, to yoke any with Christ in the work of Redemption, in the business of salvation.
Ah Friends, It is a dimiuntion of Christs dignity, sufficiency, and glory, in the business of your salvation, to joyn any thing with the Lord Jesus, and it is the greatest disparagement in the World to your own judgments, knowledge, Prudence, and wisdome, to yoak any with Christ in the work of Redemption, in the business of salvation.
Augustin saith, that Mercellina hung Christs picture, and the picture of Pythagoras together, many there are not only in Rome, but in England (yea I am afraid in London) who join Christ, and their works together, Christ and their Prayers together, Christ and their Teachers together, Christ and their mournings together, ⟨p. 242⟩Christ and their hearings together, Christ and their Alms together.
Augustin saith, that Mercellina hung Christs picture, and the picture of Pithagoras together, many there are not only in Rome, but in England (yea I am afraid in London) who joyn Christ, and their works together, Christ and their Prayers together, Christ and their Teachers together, Christ and their mournings together, ⟨p. 242⟩Christ and their hearings together, Christ and their Alms together.
Ah! what a poor, what a weak, what an impotent, what an insufficient Saviour doth these men make Jesus Christ to be. Except these men come off from these things, and come up only to Jesus Christ in the great business of salvation, they will as certainly, and as eternally perish (notwithstanding their hearing, knowing, and talking much of Christ) as those that never heard of Jesus Christ.