N00935:69
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.
A State of Bliss according to thy Word Thou wilt unto thy Chosen Ones afford. A State of Blissful Rest and Joy, wherein Raised from the Dead, they shall be freed from Sin. There Bathed in Rivers of Eternal Joy, No Sorrows more shall them at all annoy. ⟨p. 46⟩GOD shall be All in All; Brought nigh to God, In Him they shall forever make Abode. They shall See God; The Beatify Sign And their own God shall take in them Delight. My Soul, Make now thy Choice, O say; Is This What thou dost Choose for thy Chief Blessedness? Things of this Present Time I now Refuse; My Blessed GOD; Thee, Thee, and This I Choose. May the sweet JESUS me to Glory bring, And be my Glorious Prophet, Priest, and King. Does the Almighty SON of God, to those That Will, an Union with Himself propose? My Lord, I will! The Will thou didst bestow: To Thee, Oh, Let me be United so.
A State of Bliss according to thy Word Thou wilt unto thy Chosen Ones afford. A State of Blissful Rest and Joy, wherein Rais'd from the Dead, they shall be freed from Sin. There Bath'd in Rivers of Eternal Joy, No Sorrows more shall them at all annoy. ⟨p. 46⟩GOD shall be All in All; Brought nigh to God, In Him they shall forever make Abode. They shall See God; The Beatifie Sign And their own God shall take in them Delight. My Soul, Make now thy Choice, O say; Is This What thou dost Choose for thy Chief Blessedness? Things of this Present Time I now Refuse; My Blessed GOD; Thee, Thee, and This I Chuse. May the sweet JESUS me to Glory bring, And be my Glorious Prophet, Priest, and King. Does the Almighty SON of God, to those That Will, an Union with Himself propose? My Lord, I will! The Will thou didst bestow: To Thee, Oh, Let me be United so.
The full Obedience which my Surety paid To God, may That my Righteousness be made. ⟨p. 47⟩A Wretched Sinner would appear in That, Righteous before the dreadful Judgment Seat. Show me thy Way, O Lord, Left that I should Fall by those Mockers that will me delude. To thy Pure Scriptures way, I will adhere, And find the Rule of my whole Conduct there. All the Rebellion of my Heart Subdue; And for thy work, O Lord, my Strength Renew. From thy vast Fullness let my Faith derive Strength to do all things, and to Thee to Live.