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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.
Well then, let every […] man immediately Retire to think upon the rueful Necessities of a never dying Soul, just ready to fly away into the Regions of Eternity. Think on them, till you see your selves horribly perishing, in an incurable ⟨p. 32⟩guilt, and blindness, and slavery, unless the Lord Jesus Christ become your Surety for good. Hereupon, with much Humility and Sincerity, and with a most unutterable Agony, resign your Souls into his blessed Hands, begging of him, and hoping in him, to do for you, all that which He does for any of his Chosen Ones for evermore; yea, for the more safety and sureness, renew this work, & keep doing so, till at your last Breath, you receive the end of your Faith, even the Salvation of your Souls.
Well then, let every 〈…〉 man immediately Retire to think upon the rueful Necessities of a never dying Soul, just ready to fly away into the Regions of Eternity. Think on them, till you see your selves horribly perishing, in an incurable ⟨p. 32⟩guilt, and blindness, and slavery, unless the Lord Jesus Christ become your Surety for good. Hereupon, with much Humility and Sincerity, and with a most unutterable Agony, resign your Souls into his blessed Hands, begging of him, and hoping in him, to do for you, all that which He does for any of his Chosen Ones for evermore; yea, for the more safety and sureness, renew this work, & keep doing so, till at your last Breath, you receive the end of your Faith, even the Salvation of your Souls.
If you had been converted unto the Lord Jesus many years ago, yet would you now see cause to complain with old Austin, Lord, it was too late, when I first began to love thee! O what haste ought you then to make, in returning now to the Bishop of your Souls, from whom you have been miserably wandering for so long a time?
If you had been converted unto the Lord Jesus many years ago, yet would you now see cause to complain with old Austin, Lord, it was too late, when I first began to love thee! O what haste ought you then to make, in returning now to the Bishop of your Souls, from whom you have been miserably wandring for so long a time?