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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.
Let not the Devil overcome you, when he tempts you to any sin whatever; and especially to the sins which your age is more peculiarly disposed unto. Whenever the Devil urges you to an evil thing, rebuke and repel his Temptations, with such an Answer as our Saviour once gave unto him, in Mat. 16. 23. Get thee behind me Satan. Courageously, reply, Satan, have done, and, Satan, be gone! and make him turn his bark upon you, by turning of yours upon him. But there are some sins […] which, your age is more eminently inclined, an• by which 'tis most of all endangered. I pray, let These be the Objects of your more undoubted victory, and therefore of your more solicitous watchfulness. It was the Advice of the Apostle to that young man, whom old Chrysostom I remember, very justly styled, a wonderful youth, in 2 Tim 2. 22. Flee youthful lusts. As there are the Lusts of every place; the Prophet notes it about the Chaldeans, they were a ⟨p. 70⟩bitter and hasty and furious people; and the Apostle notes it about the Cretans, they were a people grievously given to Lying: the Levity of France, the Haughtiness of Spain, the Revengefulness of Italy, and the Drunkenness of Germany, has been the Remark of us English-men, who perhaps give too great l•••ences of all those vices. Thus there are likewise the […] of every Age; and youth has its particular […], which are called in Job 13. 26. The Reproach of our youth. Young men, 'tis in and by these Lusts, that the Devil will have the most likely Lo•• for the throwing of you; O that you may be […] to us here! Indeed, the best E••ght with these, is a •light from them; here, […]; these are the Enemies whereof the Captain of our Salvation has given us that word of Command, Fl••! But what are they? what be the Names of them?
Let not the Devil overcome you, when he tempts you to any sin whatever; and especially to the sins which your age is more peculiarly dispos'd unto. Whenever the Devil urges you to an evil thing, rebuke and repel his Temptations, with such an Answer as our Saviour once gave unto him, in