N00569:87
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.
'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.
For this, there is no Peradventure; But it is a mere Peradventure, that after you have slighted the Grace of God, which now proffers to bring you unto Repentance, you should at last have this Grace as it were, Forced upon you; Or, that the Sovereign God, who Works in us to will and to do, whatever Good we either Will or Do, should savingly Work upon you, after you have been many years, presumptuously throwing off all Fear & Trembling, about your own Salvation! Consider, Young Men; and Play not the Mad-men any more.
For this, there is no Peradventure; But it is a meer Peradventure, that after you have sleighted the Grace of God, which now profers to bring you unto Repentance, you should at last have this Grace as it were, Forced upon you; Or, that the Soveraign God, who Works in us to will and to do, whatever Good we either Will or Do, should savingly Work upon you, after you have been many years, presumptiously throwing off all Fear & Trembling, about your own Salvation! Consider, Young Men; and Play not the Mad-men any more.