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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.
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.
First, We have a Question. That is, Wherewith shall a Young Man cleanse his way? It is herein supposed, That the Ways of Young ⟨p. 6⟩People have much, yea, most of Sinfulness defiling of them. It is also supposed, That Young People should be sensible of their Defilement. It is further supposed, That the Defilement of Young People is Curable. But it is thereupon Enquired, What shall be done for the Redressing of our Disorders▪ and which demands for yet more of your Observation, it was probably a Young man that here made this Enquiry