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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.
There are of them, that will upon the first Approach, or even the Shadow of the Kite, get under the Wings of their Dam. Young man, the Harpies of Hell are •luttering about thee; and wilt thou not Immediately now Fly to the Redeemer that would fain gather thee, as an Hen does her Chickens under her Wings? Briefly, Whatever the Devil has to Object against Religion, you may stop the Mouth of that Foul fiend, with telling what is Written. Say, 'Tis Written, in Heb. 12.14. Follow Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. Say, 'Tis written, in Joh. 3.3. Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. And this is Written for Young People, as well as Old! In a word; A Young man once had betaken himself, to the Severities of a Christian Life; and Receiving Letters from his Father, with some other pretended Friends, which he understood, were to Dissuade him from his Christian Course, he never broke the Seal•, •ut he threw the Letters into the Fire, protesting, I will never so much ⟨p. 48⟩as give the Hearing, unto any thing that can be said against the Christianity wherein I am Engaged. I say, inasmuch as you must be Religious, you should not so much as give the Hearing unto any Objection against your being so. If the Old Serpent go to Charm you, be you like the Deaf-Adder, to all his Charms.
There are of them, that will upon the first Approach, or even the Shadow of the Kite, get under the Wings of their Dam. Young man, the Harpies of Hell are •luttering about thee; and wilt thou not Immediately now Fly to the Redeemer that would fain gather thee, as an Hen does her Chickens under her Wings? Briefly, Whatever the Devil has to Object against Religion, you may stop the Mouth of that Foul •iend, with telling what is Written. Say, 'Tis Written, in Heb. 12.14. Follow Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. Say, 'Tis written, in