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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. › The Young mans objections Answered
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Object. 3. I but I shall meet with many reproaches from one and other, if I should labour to be good betimes; if I should seek and serve the Lord in the spring and morning of my youth; ⟨p. 312⟩now to this I answer.
Object. 3. I but I shall meet with many reproaches from one and other, if I should labour to bee good betimes; if I should seek and serve the Lord in the spring and morning of my youth; ⟨p. 312⟩now to this I answer.
First, What are reproaches to the great things that others have suffered, for Christ, his Gospel, 1and the maintaining of a good conscience; what is a prick of a pin to a stab at the heart, what is a chiding to a hanging, a whipping to a burning; no more are all the reproaches thou canst meet with, to the great things that others have suffered for Christs sake.
- 1Hebrews ch. 10.••. read the ten persecutions.Heb•ews ch. 10.••. read the ten persecutions.
Ah! Young men, you should be like the Scythian that went naked in the Snow, and when Alexander wondered how he could endure it; Answered, I am not ashamed, for I am all forehead. So should you in the cause and way of Christ, you should not be ashamed, you should be all forehead, you should be stout and bold. Colonus the dutch Martyr under all his reproaches, called to the judge that had sentenced him to death, and desired him to lay his hand