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Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathanael Mather, who ...…
Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathanael Mather, who ... changed earth for heaven, Oct. 17. 1688 whereto are added some discourses on the true nature, the great reward, and the best season of such a walk with God as he left a pattern of.
London: printed by J. Astwood for John Dunton, 1689
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.
Let us Abandon that which would hinder us to remember God. There are some fatal things that are called in Job 13. 26. The Iniquities of youth: And in Jer. 31. 19. Tb Reproach of youth: An Entanglement in those, will spoil a Remembrance of God. To all young Persons now is that Call of Heaven, in 2 Tim. 2. 22. Flee youthful Lusts.
Let us Abandon that which would hinder us to remember God. There are some fatal things that are called in Job 13. 26. The Iniquities of youth: And in Jer. 31. 19. Tbe Reproach of youth: An Entanglement in those, will spoil a Remembrance of God. To all young Persons now is that Call of Heaven, in 2 Tim. 2. 22. Flee youthful Lusts.
To particularize,
(1.) Abandon the Sin of Ill Company-keeping, that you remember your Creator. Be able to say with him, in Psal. 26. 4. I have not sat with vain persons. Many an hopeful young man has been ruined, by falling into the Society of the Profane: Never was ⟨p. 78⟩there a more bloody Murderer of Souls than that Society. The very Heathen could observe, and the Apostle Paul quotes the Speech of an Heathen Poet for it, That evil Communications corrupt good manners. Now they are Evil Companions with whom those evil Communications are. Young man, dost thou see others, that will Drink, and Game, and Swear, and Scoff? I would call upon thee, as Moses upon them in