Dear Youths, my love is great unto your Souls, and my desires are earnest after your salvation; it rejoiceth my heart to see so many of your faces in my Auditory here, it will more rejoice me, if I may see all those faces in Heaven at last; and truly I hope that many of you will be my Crown and Glory in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ; therefore it is that I preach, ⟨image 4⟩therefore I have written these Words of Advice unto you, the chief heads of which are, 1. That you would seek First the Kingdom of God, where alone your chief happiness doth lye, as the End. 2. That you would seek the Righteousness of God, which is in his Son, that it might be imputed unto you for your Justification, and that it might be imparted unto you for your Renovation and Sanctification, as the necessary Means to attain this End, without which there is no possibility of admittance for you into the Kingdom of God. 3. That (having obtained Grace in the truth of it) you would labour to grow in Grace, and to be strong therein, that you might be enabled both to do and suffer whatever God calleth you unto. 4. That you would get acquainted with the Word of God, and endeavour that it may abide and dwell in you richly, as the ⟨image 4⟩choicest of all Treasures. 5. That you would labour to overcome the Wicked one, and all his temptations, whereby he would draw you unto sin, especially those sins which in Youth you are most inclinable unto.
Dear Youths, my love is great unto your Souls, and my desires are earnest after your salvation; it rejoyceth my heart to see so many of your faces in my Auditory here, it will more rejoyce me, if I may see all those faces in Heaven at last; and truly I hope that many of you will be my Crown and Glory in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ; therefore it is that I preach, ⟨image 4⟩therefore I have written these Words of Advice unto you, the chief heads of which are, 1. That you would seek First the Kingdom of God, where alone your chief happiness doth lye, as the End. 2. That you would seek the Righteousness of God, which is in his Son, that it might be imputed unto you for your Justification, and that it might be imparted unto you for your Renovation and Sanctification, as the necessary Means to attain this End, without which there is no possibility of admittance for you into the Kingdom of God. 3. That (having obtained Grace in the truth of it) you would labour to grow in Grace, and to be strong therein, that you might be enabled both to do and suffer whatever God calleth you unto. 4. That you would get acquainted with the Word of God, and endeavour that it may abide and dwell in you richly, as the ⟨image 4⟩choicest of all Treasures. 5. That you would labour to overcome the Wicked one, and all his temptations, whereby he would draw you unto sin, especially those sins which in Youth you are most inclinable unto.
