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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.
2. Sin makes those that love and live in it to become Odious. Therefore it must needs be the hatefullest evil that can be thought of. It ha's caused some of the most Excellent Creatures that ever were made, to become hateful and abhorred. This is true concerning the Angels that sinned: They were once among the Sons of God, the morning Stars shouting for joy. Job 38. 7. The morning Star is a lovely Creature Sin ha's turned Angels of light into Devils of darkness; morning Stars into the Darkness of Hell. It may be said of Hell, as the Scripture speaks of Rome, Rev. 18. 2. It is become the habitation of Devils, the hold of every fowl Spirit, and a Cage of every Unclean and hateful bird. The Devils who are compared unto fowls in the Air, are hateful birds. ⟨p. 77⟩sin ha's made them to be the most hateful Creatures in the World; and next unto sin we ought to hate the Devil, and to have no communion with him. But how Odious an evil is sin then! It makes men also to become the objects of hatred, Tit. 3. 3. We were sometimes hateful, that is worthy to be hated of God and man. Hence sinners are said to be filthy, Psal. 14. 3. They are altogether become filthy. And to be loathsome, Prov. 13. 5. A wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame. And to be abominable, Tit 1. 15. Being abominable and disobedient and to every good work Reprobate. Sin makes men Odious in the eyes of God, Psal. 5. 5. Thou hatest all workers of iniquity. The Lord abominates them, Deut. 25. 16. All that do Unrighteously are an abomination to the Lord thy God. Yea, sinners do by wickedness make themselves Odious unto good men, Prov. 29. 27. An unjust man is an abomination to the just. An holy man does not delight in the Conversation of ungodly ones: They speak such words, and do such works as are grievous and abominable to his […] It is said concerning Lot, That he was […] with the filthy Conversation of the wicked that righteous man dwelling […] them, seeing and heaing vexed his righteous