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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 with you, that are YOUNG PEOPLE, it is, that I am this Day concerned; I may not allow my Self to wear the Character of the Idol-shepherd, in zech. 1.11 16. He shall not seek the young one: but I pray, let a young man say as one of the Ancients, in many Sermons would, Ad vos mihi sermo O Juvenes! or, Tis to you, Young Fools, that my Sermon is now directed. As we read, Of a Young man, a Prophet, who in 2 King. 9.5. said, I have an Errand unto thee: And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, unto thee O Captain. So i• it be asked, unto whom I have an Errand from the Great God this Day, I must say, 'Tis to thee, O Young man! And my Business with you is, to Convince you, That you ought Immediately to set upon the practice of that Religion, wherein You shall Cleanse your Ways, by Taking Heed according to the Word of God. Wherefore, Come, •oung men, Let us Reason together; Hear my Demands, in the Name of the God that made you.
But with you, that are YOUNG PEOPLE, it is, that I am this Day concerned; I may not allow my Self to wear the Character of the Idol-shepherd, in zech. 1.11 16. He shall not seek the young one: but I pray, let a young man say as one of the Ancients, in many Sermons would, Ad vos mihi sermo O Juvenes! or, Tis to you, Young Foles, that my Sermon is now directed. As we read, Of a Young man, a Prophet, who in 2 King. 9.5. said, I have an Errand unto thee: And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, unto thee O Captain. So i• it be asked, unto whom I have an Errand from the Great God this Day, I must say, 'Tis to thee, O Young man! And my Business with you is, to Convince you, That you ought Immediately to set upon the practice of that Religion, wherein You shall Cleanse your VVayes, by Taking Heed according to the VVord of God. Wherefore, Come, •oung men, Let us Reason together; Hear my Demands, in the Name of the God that made you.