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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.
Pittacus a Philosopher, challenging Phlyon the Athenian Captain (in their wars against them) to single combat, carried a net privily, and so caught him, and overcame him; So doth Sin with poor Sinners, the dangerous, pernicious malignant nature of Sin, you may see in the story of the Italian, who first made his Enemy deny God, and then stabbed him to the heart, and so at once murdered both body, and soul. Sin betrays us into the hand of the Devil, as Delilah did Sampson into the hands of the Philistines.
Pittacus a Philosopher, challenging Phlyon the Athenian Captain (in their warres against them) to single combate, carried a net privily, and so caught him, and overcame him; So doth Sin with poor Sinners, the dangerous, pernicious malignant nature of Sinne, you may see in the story of the Italian, who first made his Enemy deny God, and then stabbed him to the heart, and so at once murdered both body, and soul. Sin betrayes us into the hand of the Devil, as Dalilah did Sampson into the hands of the Philistims.
Sugared poisons go down pleasantly; Oh! But when they are ⟨p. 274⟩down, they gall and gnaw, and gripe the very heart-strings asunder, it is so with sin; Ah! Souls have not you often found it so?
Sugred poysons go down pleasantly; Oh! But when they are ⟨p. 274⟩down, they gall and gnaw, and gripe the very heart-strings asunder, it is so with sin; Ah! Souls have not you often found it so?
When Phocas the Murderer, thought to secure himself by building high-walls, he heard a voice from heaven telling him, that though he built his bulwarks ever so high, yet Sin within, would soon undermine all.