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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.
2. That it is a necessary way: it is necessary tha• you come into this way, if you would be happy, you would escape eternal misery.
3. That the difficulty is not from the way, b• from your selves, from your own lusts, which a• ⟨p. 71⟩the weights that hang about you, and maketh the way to seem difficult and tedious to you: lay aside those weights, and the sin that doth easily beset you, and you may not only walk, but run with easiness in this race, Heb. 12. 12.
4. That though it be a difficult way to flesh and blood, yet it is easy with God to help you, and he hath promised to help you, to write his Law in your hearts, to remove your natural enmity and indisposition, and to give you suitableness of spirit to his Law, and to cause you to walk in his Statutes, and keep his Judgements, and do them, Jer. 31. 34. Ezek. 36. 27.
4. That though it be a difficult way to flesh and blood, yet it is easie with God to help you, and he hath promised to help you, to write his Law in your hearts, to remove your natural enmity and indisposition, and to give you suitableness of spirit to his Law, and to cause you to walk in his Statutes, and keep his Judgements, and do them,