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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
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Lastly, If you would be good betimes, then you must break your covenant with sin betimes, you must fall out with your lusts betimes; you must arm and fence your selves against Sin betimes; 1a man never begins to fall in with Christ, till he begins to fall out with his Sins, till sin and the soul be two, Christ and the soul cannot be one; Now to work your hearts to this, you should always look upon sin under these notions:
Lastly, If you would be good betimes, then you must break your covenant with sin betimes, you must fall out with your lusts betimes; you must arme and fence your selves against Sin betimes; 1a man never beginnes to fall in with Christ, till hee beginnes to fall out with his Sins, till sin and the soul bee two, Christ and the soul cannot be one; Now to work your hearts to this, you should alwayes look upon sin under these notions:
First, If you would have the league dissolved betwixt sin and your souls betimes, then look upon sin under the notion of an enemy betimes.
Dearly beloved, 1I beseech you as strangers and Pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. As the Viper is killed by the young ones in her belly; so are poor Sinners betrayed and killed by their own lusts, that are nourished in their bosoms.