N00569:54
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.
I. A GOOD WAY, is the first thing, that our Young People, must have Recommended unto them. See to it, Young People, that your Way be Rectified, and by being Rectified, be Purified, according to the Orders of your God. Young men, you Stand, as the Poets report of young Hercules, after a sort, In Bivio, having the prospect of Two Ways before you; there is a Virtuous Way on the Right-Hand, and a Vicious Way on the Left-Hand; whereto you are solicited. O take the Better of these Ways; whereof indeed there is but One Good; and Know, that your Standing at the Right-Hand or the Left-Hand of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Dreadful Day of His Appearing depends on ⟨p. 23⟩your taking of this Way. But, What Way? O let it not be said of you, The Way of peace they have not known, and, They have Set themselves in a Way that is not good. But let your Way be, The Narrow Way, that Leadeth unto Life. Let not your way be that which is called in Eph. 2.2, 3. A Walk, according to the course of this World, ••cording to the Prince of the Power of the Air, and in the Lusts of the Flesh. O may the good God keep you out of the way, to which the World, the Devil, and the Flesh invite you▪ Let not your way be, The way which wicked men have trodden: but, instead of that, let your way be that which is called in Prov. 2.20. The way of Good men. O that this might once be the way of Young men.
I. A GOOD WAY, is the first thing, that our Young People, must have Recommended unto them. See to it, Young People, that your Way be Rectify'd, and by being Rectify'd, be Purify'd, according to the Orders of your God. Young men, you Stand, as the Poets report of young Hercules, after a sort, In Bivio, having the prospect of Two Wayes before you; there is a Vertuous VVay on the Right-Hand, and a Vicious VVay on the Left-Hand; whereto you are sollicited. O take the Better of these VVayes; whereof indeed there is but One Good; and Know, that your Standing at the Right-Hand or the Left-Hand of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Dreadful Day of His Appearing depends on ⟨p. 23⟩