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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.
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2. Sin will be made hateful by reason of the Punishment which will follow it. Sin will prove a mischievous thing at last. As the Lepers said, 2 King. 7. 9. We do not well, if we tarry till the morning light some mischief will come upon us. It is in vain to hope otherwise. It is a vain thing for impenitent sinners to think that they shall always go unpunished. Sin will follow the sinner like a blood hound, and will find him out at last. Therefore Moses said to the Rubenites, ⟨p. 87⟩Numb. 32. 23. Be sure your sin will find you out: And it will not be long first. Punishment treadeth on the heels of sin. Gen. […] Sin lieth at the door: It watcheth at the […] to seize on the sinner. Many times […] this Life, sin is made to appear an hateful thing by bitter Plagues and Punishments which are the natural and woeful fruit of it. Lam. 5. 16. Woe unto us that we have sinned. When Jerusalem fell into the merciless hands of bitter enemies, the […] tells them, that they might thank themselves and their own iniquities, for all those heart piercing sorrows, Jer 4. 18. Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness. because it is bitter, because it reacheth to thy heart. This it is to be wicked: This comes on Impenitency in a course of sin. Such Punishments does the Lord sometimes cause to be inflicted on Sinners, and that in this life, as wound and pierce their very hearts within them. I remember what God said to […]. 9. 14. I will at this time […] all my […] upon thy heart. Many […] came upon him one after another, […] heart felt them not, till […] came upon him, that […] to his very heart. There are some ⟨p. 88⟩whose Sins go before hand to Judgment they are found out in this World; and when they are brought to open shame an disgrace their iniquity is found to be hateful Some sins are in a most peculiar manner shameful and disgraceful amongst men: That sin of Theft and Dishonesty in dealing is so,