N00935:34
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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IV. Is Early Repentance the most Acceptable, Honourable, Comfortable Repentance? ⟨p. 26⟩Be persuaded, Be overcome unto it, O you that are yet capable of that […]. Dear part of our Flock Will you be among the First, that Return unto their Allegiance and Obedience unto the Eternal King of Heaven? That which is with all possible Fervency to be pressed upon you, is; That you may be the Davids, able to say, Lord, Thou art me Trust from my Youth! That you may be the Obadiahs, able to say, I fear the Lord from my Youth! That you may be the Josiah; who while yet Young, do seek the Lord; and the Timothies, even from Childhood, by the Holy Scripture made wise unto Salvation. Briefly, an Early Application to Piety & Repentance is demanded of you; And it is demanded, that you Betimes make the wise Choice, that Solomon wisely made in his Youth: Oh, Choose the Wisdom of Religion, and leave the Folly of Wickedness. Young People, may there be a Lovely Emulation among you, who shall be First, in appearing to own the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and His Holy Truths and Ways! It was an Expostulation Repeated upon the Elders of Judah, 2 Sam. 19. 11, 12. Why are ye the last, for […] bring back the King? Let me thus Expostulate ⟨p. 27⟩with you, O Young People; Will you be the Last, that will submit unto the Eternal King? Oh Be not so! Be not so! Lest you Perish among the First, whom the Wrath of that Eternal King shall fall upon. Methinks, you should be displeased at your selves, if you be not the First, in the Congregation, that shall submit unto the Heavenly Sceptre of the Lord Jesus Christ.
IV. Is Early Repentance the most Acceptable, Honourable, Comfortable Repentance? ⟨p. 26⟩Be perswaded, Be overcome unto it, O you that are yet capable of that 〈…〉. Dear part of our Flock Will you be among the First, that Return unto their Allegiance and Obedience unto the Eternal King of Heaven? That which is with all possible Fervency to be pressed upon you, is; That you may be the Davids, able to say, Lord, Thou art me Trust from my Youth! That you may be the Obadiahs, able to say, I fear the Lord from my Youth! That you may be the Josiah; who while yet Young, do seek the Lord; and the Timothies, even from Childhood, by the Holy Scripture made wise unto Salvation. Briefly, an Early Application to Piety & Repentance is demanded of you; And it is demanded, that you Betimes make the wise Choice, that Solomon wisely made in his Youth: Oh, Choose the Wisdome of Religion, and leave the Folly of Wickedness. Young People, may there be a Lovely Emulation among you, who shall be First, in appearing to own the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and His Holy Truths and Wayes! It was an Expostulation Repeated upon the Elders of Judah,