The best way to mend the world, and to prevent the growth of popery by perswading the rising generation to an early and serious practice of piety: with answers to the principal cavils of Satan and his agents against it, &c. By Samuel Peck, minister of the word at Poplar.
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The best way to mend the world, and to prevent the growth of popery by perswading the rising generation to an early and serious practice of piety: with answers to the principal cavils of Satan and his agents against it, &c. By Samuel Peck, minister of the word at Poplar.
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Peck, Samuel.
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London :: printed by J.A. for Thomas Parkhurst, at the Bible and three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside, near Mercers-Chappel,
1680.
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Youth -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
Youth -- Religious life -- Early works to 1800.
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"The best way to mend the world, and to prevent the growth of popery by perswading the rising generation to an early and serious practice of piety: with answers to the principal cavils of Satan and his agents against it, &c. By Samuel Peck, minister of the word at Poplar." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53923.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 26, 2024.
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The Conclusion.
VERSE VIII.
Vanity of vanities (saith the Preacher) all is vanity.
THus thou hast (Reader) in a rustick strainThe wisemans counsel. What doth yet remain,Are strong and well fram'd Arguments to proveHis counsel seasonable, and to moveThee to the practice of it.—One doth lyeIn the eighth verse, that all is Vanity.This was the Preachers text when he began,And now he hath quite through his subject ran,He re-asserts and doth with vigour cry,Sirs (I have prov'd it) All is Vanity.Riches and Honours, and whate're the world Affords, are quickly into nothing hurl'd.Its pomps and pleasures, sensual delight,Like Vanity do vanish, when the nightOf death approacheth; or the evil TimeOf aged darkness clouds thy youthful prime.Nor doth the wiseman speak at random, heeHad paid for counsel, e're he counsel'd thee.He sought it out and after doth dispenseThis spirit'al physick on experience. By Physick rules his Physick is the best,It hath affix'd a true probatum est;And that's enough.—For though he could have writNo doubt whole Volumes on this Subject, yetHe gives the reason why he doth forbear,'Cause multitude of Books a burden are:
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A burden unto him to write, to youTo read a burden;—Wherefore Young man, now.Take all in brief; thy Maker, that's above, Fear, honour, his Commandments keep and love.The Motive to inforc't, is this in Summe,That thou must dye and unto Judgment come.
O aeterna Veritas,& vera Charitas,& chara Aeternitas,tu es Deus meus▪ad te suspiro die & nocte!August.