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

3. He represents the delights of sin as most sweet and satisfying; as present and at hand, and easy to be had without difficulty and labour; and sometimes as secret too, which no mortal eye can take notice of.

3. He represents the delights of sin as most sweet and satisfying; as present and at hand, and easie to be had without difficulty and labour; and sometimes as secret too, which no mortal eye can take notice of.

4. He joineth in with the lusts of their hearts, with which he hath a secret correspondence, and proposeth such objects unto them as are most suitable and desirable. It is by the pleasure and delight of sin that most young men are bewitched and persuaded to the commission of it. It was by the pleasantness of the forbidden fruit that this Old Serpent enticed our first Parents to eat thereof, and hereby it is that he doth entice their posterity.

4. He joyneth in with the lusts of their hearts, with which he hath a secret correspondence, and proposeth such objects unto them as are most suitable and desireable. It is by the pleasure and delight of sin that most young men are bewitched and perswaded to the commission of it. It was by the pleasantness of the forbidden fruit that this Old Serpent enticed our first Parents to eat thereof, and hereby it is that he doth entice their posterity.

Dear young men, labour to overcome this temptation of the wicked one, by the delight and pleasure of sin, by taking into your most serious thoughts these few Considerations.