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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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Fourthly, I answer, company and allurements to sin, will be found no sufficient excuse for sin. If Eve lay her fault on the Serpent, 1and Adam lay his on Eve, God will take it off, and lay the curse ⟨p. 336⟩on both. Sauls provocation by the people (and by Samuel's long stay) to offer Sacrifice would not bear him out, 2but for his disobedience he must lose both his Crown, and life. The young man in the Proverbs, 3though tempted and solicited by the Harlot, yet hath a dart struck thorough his heart; though Jonah did plead Gods gracious inclinations to show mercy, and his fear of being disproved, yea and though he might have pleaded his fear of cruel and savage usage from the Ninevites, (whose hearts were desperately set upon wickedness) And his despair of ever doing good upon a people so blinded, and hardened; and that they were Gentiles, and he a Jew, and why should he then be sent with so strange, so terrible a message, to such a people, nothing being more hateful and distasteful to a Jewish Palate? but all these pleas and excuses will not bear off the blow; Jonah must ⟨p. 337⟩into the Sea for all this, 4yea he must to the bottom of hell, as himself phrases it; it is in vain for the bird to complain, that it saw the corn, but not the pitfall, or for a fish to plead, it saw the bait, but not the hook. So it will be in vain for sinners at last, when they are taken in an infernal pit-fall, to plead company and allurements by which they have been enticed to undo their souls for ever.
Fourthly, I answer, company and allurements to sin, will bee found no sufficient excuse for sin. If Eve lay her fault on the Serpent, 1and Adam lay his on Eve, God will take it off, and lay the curse ⟨p. 336⟩