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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 old mans Doubts Resolved
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.
Some of the fathers by the several hours mentioned in this Parable, do understand the several ages of man, viz. Childhood, youth, middle-age, and Old-age, wherein poor souls are called and converted to Christ, the scope of the Parable, is to signify the free grace of God in the calling of some in the spring and morning of their days, and in the calling of others in their Old-age, in the evening of their days. But
Some of the fathers by the several hours mentioned in this Parable, do understand the several ages of man, viz. Childhood, youth, middle-age, and Old-age, wherein poor souls are called and converted to Christ, the scope of the Parable, is to signify the freegrace of God in the calling of some in the spring and morning of their days, and in the calling of others in their Old-age, in the evening of their days. But
Secondly, Abraham in the Old Testament, 1and Nicodemus in the New, were called and converted in their old age; when there were but a few steps between them and the grave, between them and eternity; therefore let not the grey-headed sinner despair, though his spring be past, his summer over past, and he arrived at the fall of the leaf. But
Secondly, Abraham in the Old Testament, 1and Nicodemus in the New, were called and converted in their old age; when there were but a few steps between them and the grave, between them and eternity; therefore let not the gray-headed sinner despair, though his spring be past, his summer over past, and he arrived at the fall of the leaf. But
- 1Gen. 12.4 Joh. 3.1, 2, 3, 4. ch. 7.50.