N00935:39
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
But, that I may not be as one who beats the A••, I must pitch upon two or three points of Early Christianity, unto which my dear Young People, must suffer an Exhortation. And, behold, I find them, even very Comprehensive ones, provided in the very Verse that has afforded our Text unto us.
But, that I may not be as one who beats the A••, I must pitch upon two or three points of Early Christianity, unto which my dear Young People, must suffer an Exhortation. And, behold, I find them, even very Comprehensive ones, provided in the very Verse that has affored our Text unto us.
That me should be to the Praise of His Glory who first Hoped in Christ.
Accordingly;
First; An Early Hope in the Lord Jesus Christ; Oh, My Young People, Endeavour ⟨p. 31⟩it, Endeavour it. There is a Great Salvation set before you; a noble, a worthy Object for your Hope. And let the Lord Jesus Christ, that Saviour who is a Great One, be the bottom of your Hope to come at it. Might such an Hope as this be raised in the Souls of my Young People, even the Hope of coming to Life by the Lord Jesus Christ, what an Enlivening, what a Purifying, what a Comfortable effect would it have upon them! Oh! That you would by Faith repair to the Lord Jesus Christ, with Satisfaction, that He is both Able and Willing to bring you, to all the Blessedness contained in the Promises of God; and then by Hope, Entertain an Heart-satisfying Expectation of that Blessedness. Rejoice, O my Young People, Rejoice in the Hope of the Glory of God; but place all your Hope on the Lord Jesus Christ; among whose Charming Titles this is one; [1. Tim, 1. 1.] JESUS CHRIST, our Hope. While you are without Christ, I tell you as Paul told his Ephesians, you have no Hope. All your Hope of Good, must be built on the Lord Jesus Christ; You are Foolish Builders on the Sand, if it be not so. But coming to the Lord Jesus Christ, Hope then, Oh! Hope in Him, for all