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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 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 Eccl. 11. 9, in Gal. 5. 19, 20, 21. and other such awful places. These Writtens will be more terrible to the Devil, than the Hand-writing on the wall, was to the Babylonian Emperor; such is his Antipathy to them, that if you thus Resist the Devil, he will flee from you.
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 call'd 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 Threatnings 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 Eccl. 11. 9, in Gal. 5. 19, 20, 21. and other such awful places. These Writtens will be more terrible to the Devil, than the Hand-writing on the wall, was to the Babylonian Emperour; such is his Antipathy to them, that if you thus Resist the Devil, he will flee from you.