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War with the devil, or, The young man's conflict with the powers of darkness,…
War with the devil, or, The young man's conflict with the powers of darkness, in a dialogue discovering the corruption and vanity of youth, the horrible nature of sin, and deplorable condition of fallen man, also, a description of the power and rule of conscience, and the nature of true conversion. : To which is added, an appendix, containing a dialogue between an old apostate and a young professor, worthy the perusal of all, but chiefly intended for the instruction of the younger sort. / By B.K. author of Zion in distress, or The groans of the Protestant church.War with the devil, or, The young man's conflict with the powers of darkness, in a dialogue discovering the corruption and vanity of youth, the horrible nature of sin, and deplorable condition of fallen man, also, a description of the power and rule of conscience, and the nature of true conversion. : To which is added, an appendix, containing a dialogue between an old apostate and a young professor, worthy the perusal of all, but chiefly intended for the instruction of the younger sort. / By B.K. author of Sion in distress, or The groans of the Protestant church.
New York: printed by William Bradford, 1707
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I must provide me Oil, get Grace in store, For ere a while I shall be seen no more This side the Grave; I haste therefore to meet The glorious Judge at the great Judgment seat. I must make haste, be swift like to the Sun, Lest that my work's to do when Time is done.
I must provide me Oyl, get Grace in store, For e'er a while I shall be seen no more This side the Grave; I haste therefore to meet The glorious Judge at the great Judgment seat. I must make haste, be swift like to the Sun, Lest that my work's to do when Time is done.
Apostate. To you, Young Man, I have declared much Of the sad danger, but your Zeal is such, Nought that I say, with you, takes any place; You don't believe me, that's the very case. But what's the Reason, Youth, so many folk Decline those Paths in which you now do walk? Were ways of your strict Holiness so sweet, They in this sort would never back retreat; I did resolve with others for to try, And find you all deceived utterly; Your whole Religion's nought but mere conceit, Let none therefore thy Soul with fancies cheat. Since wise men daily do your Ways for sake, Be thou advised and other Counsel take.
Apostate. To you, Young Man, I have declared much Of the sad danger, but your Zeal is such, Nought that I say, with you, takes any place; You don't believe me, that's the very case. But what's the Reason, Youth, so many folk Decline those Paths in which you now do walk? Were ways of your strict Holiness so sweet, They in this sort would never back retreat; I did resolve with others for to try, And find you all deceived utterly; Your whole Religion's nought but meer conceit, Let none therefore thy Soul with fancies cheat. Since wise men daily do your Ways for sake, Be thou advis'd and other Counsel take.
Professor. If thousands fall away it is no more Th […] the Scripture shows was heretofore. Thousands of old from Egypt did adventure, And yet […] of them did Canaan enter, They never d of Christ a saving taste, Who quite away their seeming hopes do cast; Their hearts, al, are Rotten and Unsound, Who in Christ Jesus never Sweetness found. But what of this? Shall I my LORD deny, Because that you some Hypocrites espy? Those who do murmur in the Wilderness, The Land of Promise never shall possess. But if they will the gracious LORD revoke, Shall I from thence resolve to slip the Yoke? Because they don't the glorious Lord believe, Shall Caleb think the Land he can't receive, Because so many walk in the' way to Hell, Shall I conclude, that Heaven don't excel The vain enjoyments of an evil World? Or shall with fancies thus my Soul be hurled? To think, because that Swine the grains do choose, And Pearls do tread upon, and them refuse, There is more worth in those base stinking grains Than in those true Pearls which the Merchant gains? Because these silly men have lost their Way, Shall I on purpose therefore go astray? Because that Judas did for thirty Pence Sell his dear Lord, shall I conclude from thence Peter a Fool, who prized his favour so, That for his sake all things he'd under go?