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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.
Again, As Sin is a burden to ⟨p. 293⟩Christians, so it is a burden to heaven, 1it made heaven weary to bear the Angels that fell; no sooner had they sinned, but heaven groans to be eased of them; and it never left groaning till justice had turned them a groaning to hell.
- 1Jud• 6
Again, 1as Sin is a burden to Heaven, so it is a burden to the earth, witness her swallowing up, Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, their Wives, children, Goods, servants, &c. Ah! Sinners your sins makes the very earth to groan; they make the earth weary of bearing you. Oh! How doth the earth groan and long to swallow up those earthly wretches, whose hopes, whose hearts are buried in the earth, these shall have little of heaven, but enough of earth when they come to dye.
Cornelius Alapide, tells a story, that he heard of a famous Preacher, 1who showing the bondage of the Creature, brings in the ⟨p. 294⟩