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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.
Fifthly, if you would be good betimes, then you must know betimes, wherein true happiness lies; for a man will never begin to be good, till he begins to understand wherein his happiness consists.
Fifthly, if you would be good betimes, then you must know betimes, wherein true happinesse lyes; for a man will never begin to bee good, till hee begins to understand wherein his happiness consists.
The Philosophers speaking of happiness, 1were divided into two hundred eighty eight opinions, every one intending something, and yet resolving nothing. Therefore the man in Plutarch, hearing them wrangle about mans ⟨p. 270⟩(Summum bonum) chiefest good; one placing it in this, and another in that, he went to the market and bought up all that was good, hoping among all he should not miss of it, but he did; many look for happiness in sin, 2others look for it in the Creatures, but they must all say it is not in us, (Nil dat quod non habet) nothing can give what it hath not, if the Conduit Pipe hath no water, it can give no water; if a man hath no money, he can give no money; if the Creatures have no happiness, they can give no happiness; Now this jewel, this pearl, happiness, is not to be found in the breast, in the bosom of creatures, in a word, because I must hasten to a close, mans happiness lies,
The Philosophers speaking of happiness, 1were divided into two hundred eighty eight opinions, every one intending something, and yet resolving nothing. Therefore the man in Plutarch, hearing them wrangle about mans ⟨p. 270⟩