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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
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.
Proposition I.
All men, and particularly Old Men should study a peculiar Acquaintance with the Lord Jesus Christ• All men should be of the same Resolve with That Man in a Cor. 2. 2. I determined not to know any thing, but Jesus Christ, and Him Crucified. This ⟨p. 6⟩was the Determination of one whom the Ancients do nor unfitly call, An uns••table Admirer of the Lord Jesus Christ! and there was no Occasion for that Famous and Learned Philosopher among the Ancient Heathens to pity the Apostle Paul upon this account, that such Rare Parts as Pauls were, should be thrown away upon the Knowledge of Jesus Christ. A Needless, Bootless pity! For No […] can any where find a fitter Subject for his Acquaintance, than the Lord Jesus is; not have •ay of those Doctors who have worn the pompous Titles of subtle, and profound, and Angelical, bin worthy of the Titles, unless this Acquaintance have made them so.
All men, and particularly Old Men should study a peculiar Acquaintance with the Lord Jesus Christ• All men should be of the same Resolve with That Man in a Cor. 2. 2. I determined not to know any thing, but Jesus Christ, and Him Crucify'd. This ⟨p. 6⟩was the Determination of one whom the Antients do nor unfi•ly call, An uns••table Admirer of the Lord Jesus Christ! and there was no Occasion for that Famous and Learned Philosopher among the Antient Heathens to pity the Apostle Paul upon this account, that such Rare Parts as Pauls were, should be thrown away upon the Knowledge of Jesus Christ. A Needless, Bootless pity! For No 〈…〉 can any where find a fitter Subject for his Acquaintance, than the Lord Jesus is; not have ay of those Doctors who have worn the pompous Titles of subtil, and profound, and Angelical, bin worthy of the Titles, unless this Acquaintance have made them so.