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Solemn advice to young men, not to walk in the ways of their heart,…Solemn advice to young men, not to walk in the wayes of their heart,…
Solemn advice to young men, not to walk in the ways of their heart, and in the sight of their eyes; but to remember the Day of Judgment. / By Increase Mather, president of Harvard College in Cambridge, & preacher of the Gospel at Boston, in New-England. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]Solemn advice to young men, not to walk in the wayes of their heart, and in the sight of their eyes; but to remember the Day of Judgment. / By Increase Mather, praesident of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge, & preacher of the Gospel at Boston, in New-England. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Bartholomew Green. Sold by Samuel Phillips, 1695
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.
Propos. III Young Men [as well as others] shall be brought into JUDGMENT. This is a Truth necessary for Young men to know and believe▪ Know O Young man that God will bring thee into Judgment: And if God will bring thee into i•, it is a vain thing for the to hope that thou shalt escape the Judgment. But when will this be?
Ans. Know. 1. That Young men (as well as others) are subject unto Death Job […] They die in Youth. The truth is, that most of those that are born into the world die before they come to old age; where there is one that lives to old age, there are many that die before grey […] are upon them. Indeed Young men are commonly unwilling to die, and so to come into Judgment: he Terrors of Death are amazing to them. I remember a Young man on his death bed, who perceiving that his Soul was […] into the other World, Cried out, I am amazed! I am amazed! Nevertheless, ⟨p. 29⟩when God sends Death, the Youngest and. Strongest cannot stand before it. One dyeth in his full strength, when his breasts are full of Milk and his bones moistened with Marrow. That Messenger Death will take no bribes. You read in the Gospel of one that said to his Soul, Soul take thine ease, eat, drink, just as if he had no more then the Soul of a Swine in him: That was a man that walked in the ways of his own heart; but there is a terrible thunder clap a coming, God said unto him, thou fool, this night thy Soul shall be required of thee, Luk. 12. 19, 20. Death comes like a Bailiff, and layeth and arrest on the Young man, and away his Soul is carried before God the Judge of all. In […] case especially, Death often seizeth […] Young men: one is, in case their Parents have sinned and provoked God: What a fearful end did Ahab, and Jezebels children come unto when all their heads were cut off, and laid in bloody heaps for every body to […] on; a dismal and an horrid Spectacle, and this as a punishment of their Parents wickedness; with allusion unto this, it was said of Jezebel, I will kill her Children with death,