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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.
In short, there are two particular Directions, for our Encounters with the Wicked One; and the quoting of two Texts may lay them sufficiently before us.
The first proper Direction for us, is that in Eph. 6. 17. Take the Sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Compare our Context, I Joh. 2. 14. If young men would overcome the wicked one, they must have the word of God abiding in them.
The Bible is a spiritual sword shaped and formed by the Inspirations of the Eternal Spirit; and for a Conflict with the Infernal Spirit, it is a sword whereof I may say as David of Goliath's, There is none like it. When the blackest and fiercest of all the devils made an Onset upon our blessed Saviour, and this with all the three Batteries which he once fatally overthrew the first Adam withal, how did our Lord overcome the wicked one? It was by replying upon him, It is written, and by holding up against him the Scripture of God. It is remarkable that all the swords or words used by our Lord for the overcoming of the devil were fetched from that one Book of Deuteronomy; but how rich a Magazine ⟨p. 84⟩may the whole Bible then be unto us?
The Bible is a spiritual sword shaped and formed by the Inspirations of the Eternal Spirit; and for a Conflict with the Infernal Spirit, it is a sword whereof I may say as David of Goliah's, There is none like it. When the blackest and fiercest of all the devils made an Onset upon our blessed Saviour, and this with all the three Batteries which he once fatally overthrew the first Adam withal, how did our Lord overcome the wicked one? It was by replying upon him, It is written, and by holding up against him the Scripture of God. It is remarkable that all the swords or words used by our Lord for the overcoming of the devil were fetched from that one Book of Deuteronomy; but how rich a Magazine