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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.
Take, Thirdly, One of his Meditations About, Prizing the Public Ministry of the Word was this,
Take, Thirdly, One of his Meditations About, Prizing the Publick Ministry of the Word was this,
Shall I not Prize the Word of God, not only as the Private Meditation, but also the Public Dispensation of the Word? There are Motives to This, not Inconsiderable. Is not the Word, especially the Public Ministration thereof, that which doth Instruct me, in the Knowledge of God, and Christ, whom to know is Life Eternal? Do's it not show me what I am to Believe concerning God, and what Duty God requires of Me? Does not attendance hereon, Issue in Spiritual Life, and Quickening? Again, Is not the Word of God, the means of Transforming me into His Image? Is it not the means, whereby I may hope to have my whole Soul cleansed from the Leprosy of Sin? Is not the Hiding of the word in my heart, the great means to keep me from Sinning against God? Is not here Direction given me, how to apply the Word, for the Nourishment of my Soul? Once more, Is it not by the Word of God, that I must have all the Assurance, that I must expect, to have in this World? ⟨p. 77⟩Furthermore, If I be Deprived of the Public Ministration of the Word, must not my Soul needs be in a Condition Languishing and Unprosp••ing? Yet Further, Is not the Word, the great Instrument of Regeneration? Must I not therein seek the Food of my Soul? Shall I not bring a Curse on my Soul by neglecting it? Finally, Is it not an Ordinance of Gods Institution? And now, shall not this make me willing to choose rather to suffer the greatest Afflictions, than not to attend on the Preaching of the Word?
Shall I not Prize the Word of God, not only as the Private Meditation, but also the Publick Dispensation of the Word? There are Motives to This, not Inconsiderable. Is not the Word, especially the Publick Ministration thereof, that which doth Instruct me, in the Knowledge of God, and Christ, whom to know is Life Eternal? Do's it not shew me what I am to Believe concerning God, and what Duty God requires of Me? Does not attendance hereon, Issue in Spiritual Life, and Quickening? Again, Is not the Word of God, the means of Transforming me into His Image? Is it not the means, whereby I may hope to have my whole Soul cleansed from the Leprosy of Sin? Is not the Hiding of the word in my heart, the great means to keep me from Sinning against God? Is not here Direction given me, how to apply the Word, for the Nourishment of my Soul? Once more, Is it not by the Word of God, that I must have all the Assurance, that I must expect, to have in this World?