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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.
The Knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ will fill us with a blessed variety of other Knowledge. As now, Would we know God? we are told in 2 Cor. 4. 6. The glory of God is to be seen in the Face of Jesus Christ. Right Notions about the Wisdom, and Power, and Justice, and Goodness of God, are shaped in our Minds, by the Knowledge of our Lord Jesus; when we know Him, we are like Moses, put into the Clefts of a R••k, where the glory of the great God now passes before us. Or, would we know our selves? The Knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, will help us to know what our sins are. Well sings the Christian Poet, […] Who would know Sin, Let him repair
The Knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ will fill us with a blessed variety of other Knowledge. As now, Would we know God? we are told in 2 Cor. 4. 6. The glory of God is to be seen in the Face of Jesus Christ. Right Notions about the Wisdom, and Power, and Justice, and Goodness of God, are shaped in our Minds, by the Knowledge of our Lord Jesus; when we know Him, we are like Moses, put into the Clefts of a R••k, where the glory of the great God now passes before us. Or, would we know our selves? The Knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, will help us to know what our sins are. Well sings the Christian Poet, 〈…〉 Who would know Sin, Let him repair
Unto Mount Olivet.
The Knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ will help us to know what our plagues are. We may pass a judgment upon our own Wounds by the pla•sler in Him provided for us; and by what was Exacted from our Surety, we may guess what our own Debts have been. And we may come likewise to know our Duties, by the Knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. He has been a complete Copy and a perfect Pattern for us; and His Call unto us is, Lock on me and do likewise. In short, Jesus Christ is the Key that unlocks all the Scriptures. We have searched the Scriptures, and known them to good purpose, when we have Dug so far into them, as to find them all testifying of