N00935:61
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.
This tis, To Glorify God. This is all the Revenue, that God Expects, of all that He does for us. Yea, Tis that for which He brings us to all the Glory of Heaven at the Last! And all those whom He brings to Heaven, He does first inspire with a Disposition, to make Choice of this above all things, That they may be thus unto the Praise of His Glory.
Well then, My Young People; When will you become thus Disposed. Oh! ⟨p. 41⟩When shall […] be? All Heaven is writing to Hear this Language from you. [And, O my God! My God! That it might be NOW obtained from them!] Utter it, O Solicited Souls. Utter it before the Lord, from the very bottom of your Souls.
Well then, My Young People; When will you become thus Disposed. Oh! ⟨p. 41⟩When shall 〈…〉 be? All Heaven is writing to Hear this Language from you. [And, O my God! My God! That it might be NOW obtained from them!] Utter it, O Sollicited Souls. Utter it before the Lord, from the very bottom of your Souls.
O Glorious God, I am not able to bear the Thoughts of Living, or of Being, upon any lower Design than This; That the Glorious God may have the Praises of His Glory from me. What is my Errand into the world, but that I may Glorify the God, who made me, and all the world! I was not Born only to Eat, and Drink, and Play, & Sleep, and by some Labour, to purchase Conveniences for all of these No; Nothing will please me, O my God, but This; That thy Glory may have Praises from me; and that I may Glorify God, and my Lord Jesus Christ, in Conforming to the Rules and Hopes of His Holy Religion Lord, I would not only Speak any Praises, but I would also Live thy Praises. To bear Testimonies unto thy Glory, shall be the very Business of my Life. I will make it my main Business, to Testify any Believe, I have