N00569:107
Early religion. Urged in a sermon. the duties, wherein, and the reasons wherefore, young…
Early religion. Urged in a sermon. the duties, wherein, and the reasons wherefore, young people should become religious. Whereto are added, the extracts of several papers, written by several persons, who are dying in their youth, left behind them those admonitions for the young survivors; with brief memoirs relating to the exemplary lives of some such, that have gone from hence to their everlasting rest. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Two lines of Scripture text]Early religion. Urged in a sermon. the duties, wherein, and the reasons wherefore, young people should become religious. Whereto are added, the extracts of several papers, written by several persons, who are dying in their youth, left behind them those admonitions for the young survivers; with brief memoirs relating to the exemplary lives of some such, that have gone from hence to their everlasting rest. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Two lines of Scripture text]
Boston: printed by B.H. i.e for Michael Perry, 1694
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.
I do Renounce all the Vanities and wretched Idols and Evil Courses of the World. I do Choose, & will ever Have, the Great God, for my Best Good, my Last End, my Only Lord. He shall be the Only One, in th• Glorifying and Enjoying of whom sha•• be my Welfare; and in the Serving of whom shall be my Work. I will ever be Rendering unto the Lord Jesus Christ, my proper Acknowledgements, as unto my Priest, my Prophet, and my King; and the Physician of my Soul. I will ever be Studying what is my Duty in these Things; & wherein I find my self […] fall short, I will ever count it my Grief, and Shame; and betake my self to the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant. Now, Humbly Imploring the Grace of the Mediator to be sufficient for me, I do as a further Solemnity, hereunto Subscribe my Name, with both Heart and Hand.
I do Renounce all the Vanities and wretched Idols and Evil Courses of the World. I do Choose, & will ever Have, the Grea• God, for my Best Good, my Last End, my Only Lord. He shall be the Only One, in th• Glorifying and Enjoying of whom sha•• be my Welfare; and in the Serving of whom shall be my Work. I will ever be Rendring unto the Lord Jesus Christ, my proper Acknowledgments, as unto my Priest, my Prophet, and my King; and the Physician of my Soul. I will ever be Studying what is my Duty in these Things; & wherein I find my self 〈…〉 fall short, I will ever count it my Grief, and Shame; and betake my self to the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant. Now, Humbly Imploring the Grac• of the Mediator to be sufficient for me, I do as a further Solemnity, hereunto Subscribe my Name, with both Heart and Hand.
Take Next, a Reflection written by this Young man, about the Power of Sin.