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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. The Truths of the Word. 2. The Commandments of the Word. 3. The Promises of the Word.
1. Keep the Truths of the Word; buy the Truth whatever pains it cost you; but never sell the Truth, whatever you may get by it: Seek for the Truth as for silver, and dig for it as for hidden treasures: And having found it, keep it as a treasure; do not part with it upon any terms. If you make shipwreck of faith and a good conscience, you will make shipwreck of your souls upon the rocks of perdition and destruction, and be drowned in the Ocean of Gods wrath: Therefore you must earnestly contend for the Faith, that is the Doctrine of Faith, the Truths of the Word once delivered unto the Saints, Jude 4. You will have attempts made upon you by the Agents of Hell, by the Instruments of the Devil, to rob you of the Truth, and to give you damnable errors instead of soul saving Truths: But as you desire the salvation of your souls, hold fast the Truths of the Word; get on the girdle of Truth; let the loins of your mind be girt about with the Truth, Ephes. 6. 14. ⟨p. 60⟩Let not the Truth hang loose in your minds, lest it be snatched away from you, but get the Truth girt; get it fastened and fixed; get it rooted and riveted, that you may not be wavering like a wave of the Sea tossed to and fro with every wind of Doctrine; labour for a mind established in the Truths of the Word.
1. Keep the Truths of the Word; buy the Truth whatever pains it cost you; but never sell the Truth, whatever you may get by it: Seek for the Truth as for silver, and dig for it as for hidden treasures: And having found it, keep it as a treasure; do not part with it upon any terms. If you make shipwrack of faith and a good conscience, you will make shipwrack of your souls upon the rocks of perdition and destruction, and be drowned in the Ocean of Gods wrath: Therefore you must earnestly contend for the Faith, that is the Doctrine of Faith, the Truths of the Word once delivered unto the Saints,