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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.
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 ⟨p. 84⟩may the whole Bible then be unto us?
Let all young people then study the Word of God; we read in Psal 119. 9. Of a young man thus cleansing of his way. There was once a young Gentlewoman, that before she was Nine years old could say, all the New Testament by Heart. O that all young persons would every day seriously and pensively Read the Bible, till their Hearts were become, as Jerome called his Friends, The Libraries of the Lord Jesus Christ, Young people, see that you become ready at Scripture; and learn to Fence with a sentence of Scripture against all the passes that the devil is making at you. All the Commandments, all the Promises, all the Threatenings of the Bible, will be like so many swords all-edge, for your service against the wicked one. Let the devil see, that you bear in mind what is written in