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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. › Application.
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.
I am, again, to tell you, That all Ignorant young men, are under this wretched Slavery. The ⟨p. 66⟩Apostle expresses […] Col 1. 13. God has delivered us […] power of darkness, and hath transplanted us into the Kingdom of his dear Son. Therefore you young men that are yet in darkness; you that are ignorant of God and Christ, whom to know […] Life eternal: you that are ignorant of the evil that is in sin, which is an evil• and a bitter thing; be assured, that the Prince of darkness is the Ruler of you• •••undone Souls.
I am, again, to tell you, That all Ignorant young men, are under this wretched Slavery. The ⟨p. 66⟩Apostle expresses 〈…〉 Col 1. 13. God has delivered us 〈…〉 power of darkness, and hath transplanted us into the Kingdom of his dear Son. Therefore you young men that are yet in darkness; you that are ignorant of God and Christ, whom to know 〈…〉 Life eternal: you that are ignorant of the evil that is in sin, which is an evil• and a bitter thing; be assured, that the Prince of darkness is the Ruler of you• •••undone Souls.
I am once more, to tell you, that all unconverted young men are under this woeful Slavery. To all that are not born from above, belongs the Description in Eph. 2 2: They walk• according to the prince of the power of the Air. Young men, don't you walk as the Devil would have you to walk? if the devil say, Live without prayer, and without Christ and without God; an unconverted young man lives accordingly. If the devil say, Go and be wild and […] and mad with […] cuantons; an unconverted young man does accordingly. If the devil bid such a young man to scoff and puff at all the means of his good; there will be no withholding of him. Ah! poor young man; it may be said of you, as in