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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, 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⟩Creature complaining thus; Oh! that we could serve such as are Godly; Oh! that our substance and our flesh, might be incorporated into godly people, that so we might rise into glory with them; Oh! that our flesh might not be incorporated into the flesh of sinners, for if it be, we shall go to hell, and would any creatures go to hell? Oh! we are weary of bearing sinners, we are weary of serving of sinners; thus the creatures groan, thus the creatures complain, the Sinners sins forcing them to it, &c.
Cornelius Alapide, tells a story, that he heard of a famous Preacher, 1who shewing the bondage of the Creature, brings in the ⟨p. 294⟩Creature complaining thus; Oh! that wee could serve such as are Godly; Oh! that our substance and our flesh, might bee incorporated into godly people, that so wee might rise into glory with them; Oh! that our flesh might not bee incorporated into the flesh of sinners, for if it bee, we shall go to hell, and would any creatures go to hell? Oh! we are weary of bearing sinners, wee are weary of serving of sinners; thus the creatures groan, thus the creatures complain, the Sinners sins forcing them to it, &c.