N00935:22
Agreeable admonitions for old & young. Or, Aged piety honoured, and early piety quickened.…
Agreeable admonitions for old & young. Or, Aged piety honoured, and early piety quickened. In a brief discourse, delivered, April 25. 1703. : [Two lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by T. Green, 1703
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And, Behold, what manner of Love, the Father bestows on them, who betimes acknowledge Him as their Father! All Returning Sinners are welcome to the Lord; but He makes none so welcome, as those that are most Early in the Return. There is no melody more delightful in the Ears of Heaven, than the Prayers of Young People, Beseeching and Besieging of Heaven. The sooner we list our selves under the Banner of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Kinder will be the Notice He will take of us, the Richer the Reward He will give to us. We say, […], dat qui cito dat, A Grant made with Dispatch, is a Double Grant. This we ⟨p. 14⟩may say, Early Piety is Double Piety. They are the Young Samuels, and the Young Timothies, that are the Favourites of the Lord. How can it be so Acceptable unto God, for the Children of men, to offer their Flower unto the Devil, and their Bran unto their Maker and their Saviour? No; tis more, far more Acceptable, to shake off the Yoke of the Devil, and cease to be Children of Belial, even while we are yet Children, and be as Early as we can, in putting our selves under the Yoke of our Heavenly Lord. The Earlier we begin to be for God, the more will He do for us; Yea, the more in that very thing He does for us. There is no such Token under Heaven, of one very dear to Heaven, as Early Piety; Or, for one betimes to have much of Heaven in him.
And, Behold, what manner of Love, the Father bestows on them, who betimes acknowledge Him as their Father! All Returning Sinners are welcome to the Lord; but He makes none so welcome, as those that are most Early in the Return. There is no melody more delightful in the Ears of Heaven, than the Prayers of Young People, Beseeching and Besieging of Heaven. The sooner we list our selves under the Banner of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Kinder will be the Notice He will take of us, the Richer the Reward He will give to us. We say, 〈…〉, dat qui cito dat, A Grant made with Dispatch, is a Double Grant. This we ⟨p. 14⟩may say, Early Piety is Double Piety. They are the Young Samuels, and the Young Timothies, that are the Favourites of the Lord. How can it be so Acceptable unto God, for the Children of men, to offer their Flower unto the Devil, and their Bran unto their Maker and their Saviour? No; tis more, far more Acceptable, to shake off the Yoke of the Devil, and cease to be Children of Belial, even while we are yet Children, and be as Early as we can, in putting our selves under the Yoke of our Heavenly Lord. The Earlier we begin to be for God, the more will He do for us; Yea, the more in that very thing He does for us. There is no such Token under Heaven, of one very dear to Heaven, as Early Piety; Or, for one betimes to have much of Heaven in him.