N00569:59
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
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When we hear a Grace proposed in the Word of God, follow it with a prayer, Lord, fill me with that Grace. When any thing is Promised in that Word, Pray, and Wish, Lord, let this be my Heritage, and the rejoicing of my heart. And when any thing Threatened, then Wish, Lord, let not those Judgments come upon me. There was one of but Fight years old, that could say all the New-Testament by Heart: but it may be that thy Leaky Heart, like a Sieve, do's let slip the Word of God, which is poured thereinto; nevertheless, if the Word passing through' thy Heart, excite such Prayers and Wishes, in it, a marvellous Purification of S•ul, will be thereby Attained. And then,
When we hear a Grace proposed in the Word of God, follow it with a prayer, Lord, fill me with that Grace. When any thing is Promised in that Word, Pray, and Wish, Lord, let this be my Heritage, and the rejoycing of my heart. And when any thing Threatned, then Wish, Lord, let not those Judgments come upon me. There was one of but Fight years old, that could say all the New-Testament by Heart: but it may be that thy Leaky Heart, like a Sieve, do's let slip the Word of God, which is poured thereinto; nevertheless, if the Word passing thro' thy Heart, excite such Prayers and Wishes, in it, a marvellous Purificati•n of S•ul, will be thereby Attained. And then,
III. A GOOD HEED is therefore, Lastly, to be Urged upon the Young People before the Lord this Day. You are to Take Heed; and you shall be told, Of What?
First, Young People, TAKE HEED, Lest by Forgetting of your SOULS you Starve them, you Slay them, you Ruin them. The Youngest of you all, have a Precious, and an Immortal Soul within you; a Soul, by its Fall from God, plunged into such an Universal Wretchedness, as would amaze you,