N00569:64
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.
But, Young Man, Why do you not withdraw your self presently then from such Loathsome Sinners? We find, that when our Lord was going to be Crucified, in Mark 14. 51, 52. There followed Him a certain Young Man, and the Young Men Laid hold on him; and he Fled from them Naked. Young People, If you are Following the Lord Jesus Christ, in the practices of Christianity, there are other Young Ones, that will go to Lay hold on you, ⟨p. 31⟩and oblige you to Accompany them in offering all manner of Indignities unto the Lord Jesus Christ; Yea, those Impieties, with do Crucify the Son of God afresh: But, Fly from them; Fly, whatever it cost you. Instead of Them, why should you not Associate your selves, with such Young People, as have their Pious meetings, every Week, to seek the Face, and Sing the Praise, and Repeat the word, of God, and […] one another? Blessed be God, that we have so many such meetings among us! Tis an Extreme Sleepiness in our Churches abroad in the Country, that they no more Consult their own Hopeful Growth, by encouraging their Young People, to such Preparations for further Communion among the People of God. Such Praying meetings of Young People, I am sure, will tu•n to better Account, than those Husking meetings, whereat so many of our young People in the Country do debauch themselves; better I say, than those whereat the Young People, instead of answering the demands of God for Green Ears of Corn to be brought him in our Early Piety, do make the pulling of Ripe Ears of Corn, an occasion of all the Lewdnesses in th• World. But oh! Let none of our Young Folks, ever disregard that Oracle of Wisdom, He that walketh with the Wise shall be wise, but a Companion of Fools shall be destroyed.
But, Young Man, Why do you not withdraw your self presently then from such Loathsome Sinners? VVe find, that when our Lord was going to be Crucify'd, in Mark 14. 51, 52. There followed Him a certain Young Man, and the Young Men Laid hold on him; and he Fled from them Naked. Young People, If you are Following the Lord Jesus Christ, in the practices of Christianity, there are other Young Ones, that will go to Lay hold on you, ⟨p. 31⟩