N00569:86
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.
Besides all this; Peradventure you should come to a Pensive Old Age, or to a Lingering Sickness; Yet it is bur a Peradventure, that the Grace of Repentance may then be given You. The Apostle speaking of Sinners that Oppose the Calls of God, has this unhappy Discouragement upon his heart about them, in 2 Tim 2.25. If Peradventure, God will give them Repentance.
Besides all this; Peradventure you should come to a Pensive Old Age, or to a Ling•ing Sickness; Yet it is bur a Peradventure, that the Grace of Repentance may then be given You. The Apostle speaking of Sinners that Oppose the Calls of God, has this unhappy Discouragement upon his heart about them, in 2 Tim 2.25. If Peradventure, God will give them Repentance.
'Tis beyond Peradventure, that if you don't hear the Voice of God now to To Day, your Hearts will grow Harder and Harder every Day, [See Hebrews 3.7. & 8.]
'Tis beyond Peradventure, that the Longer you continue in your Sins, the deeper and the faster will those Weeds of Hell be Rooted in your Souls: The Longer the Devil has possession of your hearts, the Strong Armed One, will have so much the Stronger hold of you▪ The more Inveterate your Distempers are, the more like to be Incurable: Every Day that you go on in your Infidelity, you lay a New Stone, upon that Hideous Wall of Separation between God and You.