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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.
But Old Men should have a very particular Disposition hereunto. For having tried an Acquaintance with all other Things, they can upon a long Experience, resent the •a••ty and Vexation that is in them all, and […] out, I have seen an end of all perfection in the world. It is therefore time for them to Resolve, I have determined to know nothing but Him that is from the Beginning!
But Old Men should have a very particular Disposition hereunto. For having try'd an Acquaintance with all other Things, they can upon a long Experience, resent the •a••ty and Vexation that is in them all, and 〈…〉 out, I have seen an end of all persection in the world. It is therefore time for them to Resolve, I have determined to know nothing but Him that is from the Beginning!
If you Enquire, […] is a peculiar Acquaintance with the Lord Jesus Christ?
If you Enquire, 〈…〉 is a peculiar Acquaintance with the Lord Jesus Christ?
I• imports, First, A Speculative or Notional […] of the Christian Religion, and especially […], That Great M••tery of Godliness, God ••a••• in the flesh. Old Men should become well ⟨p. 7⟩