N00569:38
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.
III. Which way does the Word of God Operate for this cleansing?
For Answer; Many ways. But, Thus especially.
First, The Word of God, is the GLASS, which gives Young People, to see the Uncleanness of their Ways. It is said, in James 1.23. The Hearer of the Word, is like to a man, beholding his Natural Face in a Glass. Young People do often visit the Glass; but, Look here, is a most Impartial and most Heavenly Glass for you; This Book is that Glass. If you will fairly set your selves before the Commandments in this Book; and Examine your selves upon every one of th•se Commandments, How far have I Omitted, what is in this Law required? Or, How far have I Committed what is in this Law forbidden? You'll then see the manifold Uncleanness of your Ways, in order to the Removal of that Uncleanness.
First, The Word of God, is the GLASS, which gives Young People, to see the Uncleanness of their Wayes. It is said, in James 1.23. The Hearer of the Word, is like to a man, beholding his Natural Face in a Glass. Young People do often visit the Glass; but, Look here, is a most Impartial and most Heavenly Glass for you; This Book is that Glass. If you will fairly set your selves before the Commandments in this Book; and Examine your selves upon every one of th•se Commandments, How far have I Omitted, what is in this Law required? Or, How far have I Committed what is in this Law forbidden? You'l then see the manifold Uncleanness of your Wayes, in order to the Removal of that Uncleanness.