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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.
Again, The Word of God is the RULE, which tells Young People, how to get off the Uncleanness of their Ways. This is the Rule of proceeding, in that Business, in Isai. 1.16. Wash ye, Make you clean, put away the ⟨p. 15⟩Evil of your Doings ▪ Young People have a Rule here, to show them what is Clean, and what is Unclean; and a Rule, how to Gain the former, how to Shun the latter. If you will Consult this Directory, and the Limits, and the Touchstones, of Christianity, therein directed; you'll see the Remedies of Uncleanness, as well as the Opposites of Uncleanness, and get your Ways Conformed accordingly.
Again, The Word of God is the RULE, which tells Young People, how to get off the Uncleanness of their Wayes. This is the Rule of proceeding, in that Business, in Isai. 1.16. Wash ye, Make you clean, put away the ⟨p. 15⟩Evil of your Doings ▪ Young People have a Rule here, to show them what is Clean, and what is Unclean; and a Rule, how to Gain the former, how to Shun the latter. If you will Consult this Directory, and the L•mits, and the Touchstones, of Christianity, therein directed; you'l see the Remedies of Uncleanness, as well as the Opposites of Uncleanness, and get your Wayes Conformed accordingly.
Furthermore, The Word of God, is the SPUR, which moves Young People, to seek a Cure for the Unclearness of their Ways. What Incentives unto Holiness, have we in the Word of our God? Lord, Thy Word is very Pure, and we would Love it, because it quickens us to be so! The Apostle says, in 2 Cor. 7.1