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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.
The Seventh and Last Entertainments, that you shall have of this Young Mans, are his Rules of Behaviour.
1 Keep an Exact Diary, of Your Actions and of Memorable Passages.
2 If in the conduct of your Affairs you have been Deceived by others, or committed any Error your self, 'twill be Discretion, to Note it.
3 Tu teipsum Oblectes, et Vulgi Verba Loquacis, Sperne; Bene hic de te dicet, et ille Male.
4 The best Elixir is,
4 The best El•xir is,