N00569:42
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.
APPLICATION.
I confess, that the Hebrew word Nagnar signifying A Young Man, comes from a word that signifies, to cast off; and some give this Reason for it, because Young men are too ready to cast off, all the wholesome instructions that can be given them. Young People, I pray GOD forbid, that you should this Day come under that unhappy Character! Do not cast off the instructions which are now to be tendered you; O do it not, lest you provoke the ⟨p. 18⟩Great GOD thereby to Cast off your souls, and cast off your Prayers, and make doleful Cast-a-ways of you, throughout Eternal Ages. GOD will deal with your souls, and prayers, just as you deal with His Words; Wherefore, in the Language of Jotham, I Address you; Young people, Hearken to me, that GOD may hearken to you another Day!
I confess, that the Hebrew word Nagnar signifying A Young Man, comes from a word that signifies, to cast off; and some give this Reason for it, because Young men are too ready to cast off, all the wholsome instructions that can be given them. Young People, I pray GOD forbid, that you should this Day come under that unhappy Character! Do not cast off the instructions which are now to be tendred you; O do it not, lest you provoke the ⟨p. 18⟩Great GOD thereby to Cast off your souls, and cast off your Prayers, and make doleful Cast-a-ways of you, throughout Eternal Ages. GOD will deal with your souls, and prayers, just as you deal with His Words; Wherefore, in the Language of Jotham, I Address you; Young people, Hearken to me, that GOD may hearken to you another Day!