N00569:14
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.
THERE are those Words now lai• before you, whereof I am to mind you, that like the rest of the Sacred LOOK, wherein you have these words, they are, Non tam Legenda, quam Vivenda, not only to be Read, but also, and much more, to be Lived, by all who desire the Lives, of thei• Never Dying Spirits.
THERE are those Words now lai• before you, whereof I am to mind you, that like the rest of the Sacred LOOK, wherein you have these words, they are, Non tam Legenda, quam Vivenda, not only to be Read, but also, and much more, to be Liv'd, by all who desire the Lives, of thei• Never Dying Spirits.
The Psalm wherein you find these words, was in a Vision Represented unto the Great Austin, as, The Tree of Life, in the midst of Paradise ▪ and I have now gathered a Delicate Fruit from this Glorious Tree, to partake whereof, I would this Day most affectionately Invite my own Generation; Eat, Friends, and Live; Eat, that your Souls may Live!
We have here one of the greatest Paragraphs in the BIBLE, Written to Celebrate the greatness of all the rest. The Word of GOD mentioned in every Verse but Four or Five, •n this Longest, but Sweetest of the Psalms, is here justly magnified, for its manifold Excellency, and Efficacy. And in this verse the Sanctifying Virtue of that Word, even upon the Young, which are the most unsanctified part of Mankind, is particularly Specified.
We have here one of the greatest Paragraphs in the BIBLE, Written to Celebrate the greatness of all the rest. The Word of GOD mention'd in every Verse but Four or Five, n this Longest, but Sweetest of the Psalms, is here justly magnify'd, for its manifold Excellency, and Efficacy. And in this verse the Sanctifying Vertue of that Word, even upon the Young, which are the most unsanctify'd part of Mankind, is particularly Specify'd.