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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.
Hannibal having overcome the Romans, put on their armour ⟨p. 287⟩on his shoulders, and so by that policy they being taken for Romans, won a City; but what are Hannibals wiles, to sins wiles, or Satan's wiles? if you have a mind to be acquainted with their wiles, look over my Treatise called Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices.
Hannibal having overcome the Romans, put on their armour ⟨p. 287⟩on his shoulders, and so by that policy they being taken for Romans, won a City; but what are Hannibals wiles, to sins wiles, or Satans wiles? if you have a minde to bee acquainted with their wiles, look over my Treatise called Precious Remedies against Satans Devices.
Sixthly and lastly, Fire is a devouring, a consuming Element, 1it turns all fuel into ashes; It is a Woolf that eats up all, 2so Sin is a fire that devours and consumes all, it turned Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, it hath destroyed the Caldaean, Persian, and Grecian Kingdoms, and will at last destroy the Roman Kingdom also; this Woolf ate up Samsons strength, Absaloms beauty, Achitophels policy, and Herod's glory, &c. It hath drowned one world already, and will at last burn another, even this. Oh the hopes, the hearts, the happiness, the joys, the comforts, the souls that this fire (Sin) hath ⟨p. 288⟩consumed and destroyed! &c.
Sixthly and lastly, Fire is a devouring, a consuming Element, 1it turns all fuel into ashes; It is a Woolf that eats up all,