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Words of advice to young men delivered in two sermons at two conventions of…
Words of advice to young men delivered in two sermons at two conventions of young men, the one Decemb. 25, 1666, the other Decemb. 25, 1667 / by Thomas Vincent ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1668
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.
1. Labour to get this Word of God. 2. Labour to keep this Word of God.
1. Labour to get this Word of God.
1. To get it into your minds. 2. To get it into your hearts.
1. Get the Word of God into your minds, so as to understand it, so as to believe it. And that you may do so, I would advise you to take a right method herein, that you would begin with the Principles of Religion. One that would have a good understanding in the Tongues, must first learn the Grammar: One that would attain knowledge in the Art and Sciences, must begin first with the Principles, the Rudiments and Elements of them: And so one that would attain a good understanding in the Word of God, must begin with the Principles of Religion, which are collected together in the most easy way to understand in Catechisms, where you have the great fundamental truths of Religion, which are necessary to be known, believed and practised in order unto salvation, set down by way of question and answer. And because some Catechisms are very deficient in giving clear light, and some are very full: I shall above all commend to you the Catechism of the Assembly of Divines, where all the heads of Religion are proved out of the Scripture, which is the fountain