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Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathanael Mather, who ...…

Name: Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathanael Mather, who ...…
Author: Cotton Mather

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.

Cotton Mather 1663–1728London: printed by J. Astwood for John Dunton, 1689

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THE DUTY AND INTEREST OF YOUTH: OR, The Thought of an Elder, on the… › Doctrine. It is the Duty of All Men, and peculiarly of Young Men, t… › Consideration 3: CONSIDER. III.

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Remember God Now, or there is Danger that you never will at all: As he said in Joh. 3. 4. How can a Man be born when he is old? so, How can a Man be New-born then? It seldom is. Our Text says, Remember thy Creator in the days of thy Youth; It may be rendered, In the days of thy Choice. You now make your Choice: If you choose God in your Youth, Well; but if you now choose Lust and Sin, a thousand to one but God will confirm that Choice; the Lord may say, Let him that is filthy be filthy still, and, Let him that is wicked he wicked for evermore: Besides the Mortality, there is also an Obduration which thou art in danger of: It is a direful Menace of God in Gen. 6. 3. My Spirit shall not always strive. If thou dost now resist the strivings of the Lord, thou dost as it were smother them and banish them; 'tis to be feared that they will take an Eternal Farewell of thy forsaken Soul. Dost not thou Tremble at this, O thou Heart of Adamant? If this horrible thing should be the Portion of thy Soul, Down, Down, Down thou goest into the Pitt, among them that cannot hope for the Truth of God.

Remember God Now, or there is Danger that you never will at all: As he said in Joh. 3. 4. How can a Man be born when he is old? so, How can a Man be New-born then? It seldom is. Our Text says, Remember thy Creator in the days of thy Youth; It may be rendred, In the days of thy Choice. You now make your Choice: If you choose God in your Youth, Well; but if you now choose Lust and Sin, a thousand to one but God will confirm that Choice; the Lord may say, Let him that is filthy be filthy still, and, Let him that is wicked he wicked for evermore: Besides the Mortality, there is also an Obduration which thou art in danger of: It is a direful Menace of God in Gen. 6. 3. My Spirit shall not always strive. If thou dost now resist the strivings of the Lord, thou dost as it were smother them and banish them; 'tis to be fear'd that they will take an Eternal Farewell of thy forsaken Soul. Dost not thou Tremble at this, O thou Heart of Adamant? If this horrible thing should be the Portion of thy Soul, Down, Down, Down thou goest into the Pitt, among them that cannot hope for the Truth of God.

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