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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.
Secondly, We have an Answer to the Question. That is, By Taking heed thereto according to thy Word. In this Answer, we see, First, a Medicine to be applied. That is, The Word of God; whereby is meant, the Revelation which God has given of His Mind and Will unto us. We see, Next, the Manner of applying it. That is, By taking heed; which imports a serious Labour of Soul to Conform unto whatever our God has therein required of us.
Secondly, We have an Answer to the Question. That is, By Taking heed thereto according to thy VVord. In this Answer, we see, First, a Medicine to be apply'd. That is, The VVord of God; whereby is meant, the Revelation which God has given of His Mind and Will unto us. We see, Next, the Manner of applying it. That is, By taking heed; which imports a serious Labour of Soul to Conform unto whatever our God has therein required of us.
I confess, That I want a further Commentary upon this Text; but that is a Practical one; and I must come to YOU, my Young People, for it. It is to YOU, that I come this Day; and it is with this All concerning Doctrine that I come.
It is the High Interest, and it should be the Great Study of YOUNG People, to TAKE HEED, that Their WAY may be Cleansed, according to Gods WORD.