N00569:70
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 yet I must say This also; That it will quickly be Too Late. Wherefore, make Hast, Old man, make Hast, in thy Cleansing of thy ways. We read, in Luc. 4.40. when the Sun was S•tting, all they that had any sick with diverse Diseases, brought them unto Jesus Christ; and He Laid His Hands on every one of them, and Healed them. Truly, Tho' thou a•t just come To thy Sun-Set, yet thou mayst be welcome unto the Lord Jesus Christ, with all thy Spiritual maladies; Repair to him, as the Prophet, the Priest, the King, of thy Soul; ⟨p. 37⟩and that Sun of Righteousness will yet arise unto thee, with Healing in His wings. But if thou stay till it be Past thy Sun-set, there will then be no Remedy nor Escaping for thee; thou wilt then unavoidably Perish in Outer Darkness for evermore.
But yet I must say This also; That it will quickly be Too Late. Wherefore, make Hast, Old man, make Hast, in thy Cleansing of thy ways. We read, in Luc. 4.40. when the Sun was S•tting, all they that had any sick with diverse Diseases, brought them unto Jesus Christ; and He Laid His Hands on every one of them, and Healed them. Truly, Tho' thou a•t just come To thy Sun-Set, yet thou mayst be welcome unto the Lord Jesus Christ, with all thy Spiritual m•ladies; Repair to him, as the Prophet, the Priest, the King, of thy Soul; ⟨p. 37⟩and that Sun of Righteousness will yet arise unto thee, with Healing in His wings. But if thou stay till it be Past thy Sun-set, there will then be no Remedy nor Escaping for thee; thou wilt then unavoidably Perish in Outer Darkness for evermore.