An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…

and so it hath ¹been with young Professors of Religion, many young ones in the profession of Religion, because they have been too bold and confident in their own understanding, the Lord hath left them to such falls that they prove but crooked all the days of their profession, but though they do go on in a way of profession of Religion, they are but maimed Professors, crooked Professors, because of the falls that they have gotten when they were young ones: And truly we have very great cause to fear that ²who lives but a few years, to see those that are young Professors of Religion now live to be something old, I say, we have cause to fear that those that live to see it, will see a great many maimed and crooked Professors of Religion, for there are a many young ones in these slippery times gets falls that venture so much upon the Ice, upon doubtful things that they understand not, which get such falls and bruises that are like to stick upon them as long as they live. Some of you it may be may remember when you were children you would use to venture upon the Ice, and be sliding, and you got such bruises then that now you feel them; Oh! let young ones take heed of venturing upon doubtful things, let them look up to God to make their way plain before them, and not lean to their own understandings lest they have falls (I say) by which they get bruises that they may feel another day.

and so it hath ¹been with yong Professors of Religion, many yong ones in the profession of Religion, because they have been too bold and confident in their own understanding, the Lord hath left them to such fals that they prove but crooked all the daies of their profession, but though they do go on in a way of profession of Religion, they are but maim'd Professors, crooked Professors, because of the falls that they have gotten when they were yong ones: And truly we have very great cause to fear that ²who lives but a few years, to see those that are yong Professors of Religion now live to be something old, I say, we have cause to fear that those that live to see it, will see a great many maim'd and crooked Professors of Religion, for there are a many yong ones in these slippery times gets fals that venture so much upon the Ice, upon doubtful things that they understand not, which get such falls and bruises that are like to stick upon them as long as they live. Some of you it may be may remember when you were children you would use to venture upon the Ice, and be sliding, and you got such bruises then that now you feel them; Oh! let yong ones take heed of venturing upon doubtful things, let them look up to God to make their way plain before them, and not lean to their own understandings lest they have falls (I say) by which they get bruises that they may feel another day.