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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. › DOCTRINE.
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.
DOCTRINE.
The Wicked One is an Enemy, which 'tis the singular and special Honour of Religious Young Men to be-victorious over.
Proposition 1.
We are to look upon the Devils as a Wicked One. That there are Devils in the world, is unquestionable to all but those absurd Sadducees, that say, seeing is believing, and will believe nothing but what they see. And yet if even seeing would convince them, after their contemning of the Scriptural Evidence which may be read in Jude 6. and Mat. 18. 16. and Luc. 4. 33. and many other places, we have in a manner seen such Beings as Devils are. That is, we have seen such preternatural operations in some Enchantments and Possession• among us, as could never have been without the Existence of certain spiritual and rational Substances, as are full of all Wickedness against God, and enmity against man. Would you know what a Devil is? The Apostle gives a description of him, in