Agreeable admonitions for old & young. Or, Aged piety honoured, and early piety quickened.…

Secondly; Early Piety and Repentance, is more Honourable than Delayed Repentance. Is not a Child of God, more Honourable than a Child of Satan? A Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, more Honourable than a Vassal of the Devil? An Heir of an Heavenly Crown, more Honourable, than an Heir of Death, and a Fire-brand of Hell? We may say, Psa, 149. 9. This Honour have all the Saints. ⟨p. 15⟩Well, but the sooner we come to this Honour, the more Honourable are we. By Early Piety we do betimes come to the best Honour in the world. Is it not an Honour to be the Excellent in the Earth, and, more Excellent than ones Neighbour? Tis affirmed, Psal. 16. 3. The Saints are the Excellent in the Earth; and Prov. 12. 26. The Just is more Excellent than his Neighbour. Then Early Piety is a very Honourable Thing; for it will render us, more excellent, even than the excellent. We Excel even the Excellent themselves, when we become Saints, and become Just, sooner than the rest of the Saints and of the Just. Certainly, 'tis more Honourable to be Conversing with God, in the Noble exercises of Piety, than to be Debasing and Debauching our selves, in the Beastly ways of Wickedness. If an Angel be more Honourable than a Beast, it must be so! Sinful Man, Thou art a Beast, until Repentance do recover thee. It is Honourable to be Reasonable. Folly is a Dishonour. Tis a Shame, to play the Fool. Religion is the most Reasonable thing that ever was. The sooner we become Religious, the sooner we come to our Wits, and come to act as Reasonable men. We are truly advised, Psal. 111. 10. ⟨p. 16⟩The Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom, a Good Understanding have all they who do those things that are in it. Is it not more Honourable to do the part of a Wise man, and act with the Highest Reason, that it can be, to do nothing but Play the Fool? Sinner, so long as thou deferrest thy Repentance; thou art so long a Fool; Yea, Madness is thine Heart. Young People sometimes make it an Objection against Early Piety; They shall be Despised, and perhaps Derided for it. But, Behold, Ye Despisers, and Wonder at your own unspeakable Infatuation; Reason is Despised by Folly; Wisdom is Derided by Madness, when you Mock at Early Piety. Be advised of This, and then, Mock on, if you Resolve to Perish.