N00935:31
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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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.
I am to Entreat Old Men at Fathers. Wherefore, My Fathers, and all you that were in the Lord Jesus Christ before me; I Entreat you, To Examine your selves, what Progress you have made in Christianity: Examine, whether you have now any more clear Knowledge of Him that is from the Beginning, than you had at the Beginning: Examine, whether you are any Readier for Death, than you were when your Death was further off? I Entreat you, to procure unto your selves; that Praise, Thy Last works are more than the First; and grow more full of Christ, and Heaven, than you were at the First. You have one Foot in the Grave,: I beseech you, Sirs, where should the other be? And I Entreat you, to take the Apostolical Admonition, Tit. 2. 2. That the Aged Men be Sober, Grave, Temperate, Sound in Faith, in Charity, in Patience. I Entreat you, Do not Exemplify an Observation of […] That while the Spirit of God, working in Young Ones, many times does give out early Discoveries of His Grace, ⟨p. 23⟩there are Elder persons, who only carry their Grey Hairs as a badge of their Ingratitude unto God.
I am to Entreat Old Men at Fathers. Wherefore, My Fathers, and all you that were in the Lord Jesus Christ before me; I Entreat you, To Examine your selves, what Progress you have made in Christianity: Examine, whether you have now any more clear Knowledge of Him that is from the Beginning, than you had at the Beginning: Examine, whether you are any Readier for Death, than you were when your Death was further off? I Entreat you, to procure unto your selves; that Praise, Thy Last works are more than the First; and grow more full of Christ, and Heaven, than you were at the First. You have one Foot in the Grave,: I beseech you, Sirs, where should the other be? And I Entreat you, to take the Apostolical Admonition, Tit. 2. 2. That the Aged Men be Sober, Grave, Temperate, Sound in Faith, in Charity, in Patience. I Entreat you, Do not Exemplify an Observation of 〈…〉 That while the Spirit of God, working in Young Ones, many times does give out early Discoveries of His Grace, ⟨p. 23⟩there are Elder persons, who only carry their Gray Hairs as a badge of their Ingratitude unto God.