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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 first Temptation whereby the wicked one draweth young men unto the commission of sin is by the delight and pleasure of it; and here he is very cunning in the management of this temptation, that it may take effect.
1. He laboureth to hide from the eyes of young men those pure, spiritual, and more excellent pleasures, those heavenly, ravishing, and far transcendent delights and joys which are to be found in God both here, and chiefly hereafter; persuading them, that the ways of God are irksome and unpleasant, which is furthered by their own experience, they find them to be so to them upon a little trial, for want of a spiritual appetite to relish that real sweetness which is in them; for as Angels cannot relish carnal pleasures, because they have no carnal senses, so neither can carnal persons relish spiritual pleasures, because they have no spiritual senses.
1. He laboureth to hide from the eyes of young men those pure, spiritual, and more excellent pleasures, those heavenly, ravishing, and far transcendent delights and joyes which are to be found in God both here, and chiefly hereafter; perswading them, that the wayes of God are irksome and unpleasant, which is furthered by their own experience, they finde them to be so to them upon a little tryall, for want of a spiritual appetite to relish that reall sweetness which is in them; for as Angels cannot relish carnal pleasures, because they have no carnal senses, so neither can carnal persons relish spiritual pleasures, because they have no spiritual senses.