N00569:19
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
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I Remember that the Wise man does in a certain place report unto us, How his Royal Father did use to Catechise him in his Youth; and his being so Catechised was that which more than a little contributed unto his becoming so wise a man, even while a young one. It is likely that we have here found one of those Admirable Echo's which then passed between those Illustrious Personages: I pray, Let all of that age attend unto it.
Our Text is a Demonstration of the Assertion, That the Word of God shows the way to our Happiness. 'Tis Demonstrated by this; That this Word Enjoins and Effects our Holiness. And this is here proved, with an Argument a Fortiori; That which will be serviceable unto the Designs of Holiness in a Young man, will be so for any man; for No man is ordinarily more Unholy or more unlikely to be Holy, than the Young man: But the Word of God will do this; if such a wild, such a mad, such an unclean thing as a Young man, will Give Heed unto it, his cleansed Heart and Life will have the Marks of a Glorious Holiness thereupon.
Our Text is a Demonstration of the Assertion, That the Word of God shows the way to our Happiness. 'Tis Demonstrated by this; That this Word Enjoyns and Effects our Holiness. And this is here proved, with an Argument a Fortiori; That which will be serviceable unto the Designs of Holiness in a Young man, will be so for any man; for No man is ordinarily more Unholy or more unlikely to be Holy, than the Young man: But the Word of God will do this; if such a wild, such a mad, such an unclean thing as a Young man, will Give Heed unto it, his cleansed Heart and Life will have the Marks of a Glorious Holiness thereupon.
In the Text we have two things.