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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.
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3. Young men, labour to overcome the wicked one. By the wicked one we are to understand the Devil, who is called the wicked one by way of eminency, because the Devil was the first wicked one, and is the most wicked one, and is, the cause of all, or most of the wickedness in the world; he drew our first Parents unto the first sin, and he hath a hand in the greatest sins that are committed by their Posterity, and therefore all the wicked are called the children of the Devil, Joh. 8. 44. Ye are of your Father the Devil, and the lusts of your Father ye will do. Then this wicked one is overcome, when his temptations to sin are resisted and repelled.
3. YOung men, labour to overcome the wicked one. By the wicked one we are to understand the Devil, who is called the wicked one by way of eminency, because the Devil was the first wicked one, and is the most wicked one, and is, the cause of all, or most of the wickedness in the world; he drew our first Parents unto the first sin, and he hath a hand in the greatest sins that are committed by their Posterity, and therefore all the wicked are called the children of the Devil, Joh. 8. 44. Ye are of your Father the Devil, and the lusts of your Father ye will do. Then this wicked one is overcome, when his temptations to sin are resisted and repelled.