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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 OLD MANS HONOUR OR, The HOARY HEAD found in the way of RIGHTEOU… › Counsel 3: The third Counsel.
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The third Counsel.
Govern the little that remains of your Lives, ⟨p. 33⟩by the Rules of Him that is from the Beginning. The Apostle tells Old men, in I Joh. 2. 7. I wri• unto you an old Commandment, which ye had from the Beginning. It becomes you to follow the wholesome Rules, which He that is from the Beginning has given you; inasmuch as they are Old Commandments, which you have had from the Beginning. Let me a little insist upon one of those old Commandments which you find in Tit. 2. 2. That the Aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound, […] Faith, in Charity, in patience.
Govern the little that remains of your Lives, ⟨p. 33⟩by the Rules of Him that is from the Beginning. The Apostle tells Old men, in I Joh. 2. 7. I wri• unto you an old Commandment, which ye had from the Beginning. It becomes you to follow the wholesome Rules, which He that is from the Beginning has given you; inasmuch as they are Old Commandments, which you have had from the Beginning. Let me a little insist upon one of those old Commandments which you find in Tit. 2. 2. That the Aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound, 〈…〉 Faith, in Charity, in patience.