Words of advice to young men delivered in two sermons at two conventions of…

4. That if you can obtain a kindly sorrow for sin, which is a sweet melting of the heart with the sense of Gods love, you will find more pleasure to your inward man than ever you did in all the delights of sin.

5. That you are not required in this way to throw away all your comforts in your creature-enjoyments, but only to deny your selves the excess and inordinacy, which where it is taken, breeds more bitterness in the disappointment, than ever it yielded sweetness unto any: You may take a subordinate comfort in friends, and habitation, and food, and the like, and herein more real comfort through the sweetening of these things with Gods blessing and love, than ever you could find in these things before.

5. That you are not required in this way to throw away all your comforts in your creature-enjoyments, but only to deny your selves the excess and inordinacy, which where it is taken, breeds more bitterness in the disappointment, than ever it yielded sweetness unto any: You may take a subordinate comfort in friends, and habitation, and food, and the like, and herein more reall comfort through the sweetning of these things with Gods blessing and love, than ever you could finde in these things before.

6. That though your sinful delights must be denied, yet God hath promised other delights in exchange, he will give you spiritual delights: If you walk closely and strictly, and do not wound your selves by your sins, you may have such sweet peace and refreshing joys in the light of Gods countenance, and sense of Gods love, in communion with God here in his Ordinances, and in hopes of the ⟨p. 73⟩