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Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children. In three discourses ...…
Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children. In three discourses ... To which may be added, a short scriptural catechism, accommodated unto their capacities. / By Cotton Mather.
Boston: printed by R. Pierce for Nicholas Buttolph, 1690
THE YOUNG MAN'S Glory. OR, A Wreath of Graces for the Head of YOUTH.
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.
THE YOUNG MAN'S Glory. OR, A Wreath of Graces for the Head of YOUTH.
That we have the Word of God […], […] a thing to be with many Thanksgivings ascribed unto the Grace of God; everlasting Praises are due from us to, Him, that has written the great things of his Law. And one Expression of our gratitude unto Him for it, […] be for us to count our selves therein written unto; to judge our selves as much concerned […] the Scripture, as if it were a Letter with our Names ⟨p. 52⟩in the superscription of it. But that we may not give the least way to a contrary, and a culpable inadvertency, the Holy Spirit of God has particularized in his Addresses, and applied himself unto the several Ages of men. 'Tis unto young men, that we now see an inspired Apostle writing; and unto pious, gracious, Christian young men; such young men as all men may behold a pattern in. A very glorious Attainment is here acknowledged in such young men as believe in and belong to, the Lord Jesus Christ; and the Expression is adapted unto that condition which young men are naturally ambitious of. We read in