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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.
Oh the health, the wealth, the honour, the friends, the relations, that Sin hath robbed thousands of.
Oh the health, the wealth, the honor, the friends, the relations, that Sin hath robbed thousands of.
Nay, It hath robbed many of their gifts, their arts, their parts, their memory, their judgement; ⟨p. 291⟩yea their very reason, as you may see in Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Ahithophel, Haman, Herod, and those Babylonish Princes that accused Daniel. And so in Menipus of Phoenicia, who having lost his goods, strangled himself. And so Dinarcus Phidon at a certain loss; cut his own throat to save the charge of a cord. And so Augustus Caesar (in whose time Christ was born) was so troubled and astonished at the relation of an overthrow from Varus, 1that for certain months together, he let the hair of his beard and head grow still, and wore it long; yea and other whiles would run his head against the doors, crying out Quintilius Varus, deliver up my Legions again; by all which, it is most apparent, that Sin is the greatest thief in all the World. Oh then who would not break league and covenant with it, and be still in pressing of God, to do justice upon it? &c.
Nay, It hath robbed many of their gifts, their arts, their parts, their memory, their judgement; ⟨p. 291⟩yea their very reason, as you may see in Pharoah, Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Achitophel, Haman, Herod, and those Babylonish Princes that accused Daniel. And so in Menipus of Phenicia, who having lost his goods, strangled himself. And so Dinarcus Phidon at a certain losse; cut his own throat to save the charge of a cord. And so Augustus Caesar (in whose time Christ was born) was so troubled and astonished at the relation of an overthrow from Varrus, 1