N00569:35
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.
For Answ••; Let young people […] nothing less tha• the WHOLE WORD of GOD. There is no Word of God, whereof you may not say, Good is that word […] the Lord! You are told, in 2 Tim. 3.16.17. All Scripture is profitable, for ••struction in Righteousness; that the man of God ma• be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. Truly so, The whole Word ⟨p. 12⟩God, is profitable to make Young people Righteous; that the young man may be throughly purified, in all good ways. But more particularly, There is the Word Written, and you are to regard that Word. It is said in, 2 Peter 1.9. We have a more sure word of Prophecy, whereto ye do well, that ye take heed, as unto a Light that shineth in a dark place. You, Young people, are Young Sailors, through' a Dark, Tempestuous, Dangerous World: You had need make the Written Word of GOD, the Pole-star, by which alone you may shape your Course; and therefore you had need, at least every Four and Twenty Hours, to take Observation by that Word. Again, there is the W•rd Preached, and you are also to regard that Word. It is said, in Jer. 3.15. I will give you Pastors according to mine Heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and with understanding. You that are Young People, are the Young Lambs of our Flocks; Where the Preached Word of GOD is to be Enjoyed in those Assemblies are the Folds of Him […] is the Great and the Good Shepherd of your Souls; you should t•••efore every Week, be there Folding in the Green Pastures, and by the Still W•••rs, where you may hear the Voice of your Eternal shepherd. But then,
For Answ••; Let young people 〈…〉 nothing less tha• the WHOLE WORD of GOD. There is no Word of God, whereof you may not say, Good is that word the Lord! You are told, in