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cillotiues
to-
pertrade
vs
to
Often
our
repentance.
395
foeuer
meane
to
attaine
veto learning,or to knowledge
ofa-
ny
fcience,
trade,
or occupation, they
doe
not
deferre
it
to
their
olde daies,
but
glue
themfelues
unto it
in
the
time
of
their youth,when
as
their wits
are
moil frefh,and their
capa-
citie
nmitquicke
to
receive
infru6hon.
Seeing
then there
is
much
knowledge
neceffarily
required to the
making
of
a.
true
Chriflian(for
without
knowledge
we can haue
no
faith,
and
without
faith there
is
no
faluation)
therefore
for
the
at-
taining hereunto
it
is
very
needfull
that
we
beginne betimes,
and
fet
our
felues
to
learne
Gods
true
religion
in
the time
of
our
youth,
when
as
we
are
moft
fit
for this purpofe.
And
this counfell
the
wife man
glues vs,Prou.
aa.6.
Teach
a
childe
in
the
trade
o
f
his
way,
and
when he is old he (ball
not depart
fiom
it.
Secondly,
as
old
men
are
more
vnfit
to
learne,
fo
alfo
they
are
-more
forgetful)
to
remember
that
which
is
taught
them,
and therefore
if
they doe
not
fet
their whole
mindes
vpon-
'Gods
word,
and continually
call
to minde
that
which hath
been
delivered
veto
them in
the
preaching
thereof, medita-
ting
therein
.with
the
Prophet
David
day and
night,
all
they
haue
learned
will
eafily
flip
out
of
their
weake and decayed
memories.
Which
thing
is
molt
hard for
them
to
performe
by
reafon
of
manifc'lde
ditlradtions, which that age
is
lab-
vnto,
as
the
infirmities
of
the bodie
,
fickneffe
,
ashes;
and innumerable griefes
,
and allo
the
manifolde
troubles
and
cares
of
miede,
not
onely
in
refpe&of
their
ovine
flare,
but
alto in
thebehalfe
oftheir
children,young
nephewes and
neere
friends,
whole
welfare
is
as
deare
vnto them
as
their
owne
:
now
if
a
fingle man
bath
cares
enow
to
diflraa
him from
Gods feruice, how many
are
their
diflra6 ions,
whole
cares are
doubled
and
redoubled
?
and
therefore if
we
would
make choice
of
thefittefttime
for our
conuer1
on,we
mull not
deferre
it
till
our
olde
age,
but
turne
vnto
God
in
our youth,
when
as
our
wits
are-rnoft.fit.
to
receiue, and our
memories to
retaire
infru&i.on
Laflly;if
we deferre
our conuerfion unto
God
'till
our olde
8. eecauft
Ito
-
age, or
till we
lye on
our-deathbed,
wee
shall
finde
it
more
bowl
of
deat
difficult,
in
that
cur
enernie Satan
,
who
alwaies
goeth
th,e
ofi
r
bout
like;
a
roaring Lion,
feking
to
deuourc..vs,
Both
then
"it
t
thence.:.
redouble~..