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Ignorantia scientifica. A brief essay on mans not knowing his time: the just inferences…
Ignorantia scientifica. A brief essay on mans not knowing his time: the just inferences from it, and the great advantages of it. : Upon a special and mournful occasion. : [Seven lines of quotations]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Gerrish, 1727
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.
NO doubt, There are many Young People among us, who have some Convictions on their Minds, That things are not with them, as they should be; and they must no longer continue as they are : Nor are they without some feeble Purposes, I will not offend any more. Children, Beware lest you Sin away these Convictions, and a Penal Blindness and Hardness be what you shall thereupon be for ever left unto. We read concerning Sampson, That while he was yet in his Youth, perhaps a very Young Lad; Judg. XIII. 25. The Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times. Thus, there are many Young People, who feel the Spirit of the Lord beginning to move them at times; and they feel Pious Motions in their Hearts; They think, They will shake off their Vain Company; They will take up the Religion of the Closet; They will prepare for, and approach to, the Holy Table. But, Oh! Don't lose these Motions; and let not the Spirit of the Lord be provoked by your contempt of His Motions to Depart from you. Woe to them, when I depart from them, saith the Lord! It was among the Dying words, which the late Eminent Professor of Theology in the University of St. ⟨p. 23⟩Andrews, in Scotland, used unto one of his Children; You seem some-times to have Convictions; Beware how you treat them. They are the most dangerous things that ever you meddled with.1 Each of them is a Messenger of GOD. If you seek not GOD, and if you despise the Messenger of GOD, He will be terribly avenged on you.
NO doubt, There are many Young People among us, who have some Convictions on their Minds, That things are not with them, as they should be; and they must no longer continue as they are : Nor are they without some feeble Purposes, I will not offend any more. Children, Beware lest you Sin away these Convictions, and a Penal Blindness and Hardness be what you shall thereupon be for ever left unto. We read concerning Sampson, That while he was yet in his Youth, perhaps a very Young Lad; Judg. XIII. 25. The Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times. Thus, there are many Young People, who feel the Spirit of the Lord beginning to move them at times; and they feel Pious Motions in their Hearts; They think, They will shake off their Vain Company; They will take up the Religion of the Closet; They will prepare for, and approach to, the Holy Table. But, Oh! Don't lose these Motions; and let not the Spirit of the Lord be provoked by your contempt of His Motions to Depart from you. Wo to them, when I depart from them, saith the Lord! It was among the Dying words, which the late Eminent Professor of Theology in the University of St.