Trees, Plants, and Youth in Edwards and the Emblem Writers

No. 375

Young twigs are easily bent and made to grow another way, old trees most difficultly. So persons in youth are more easily turned than others. Again, a young plant is much more easily plucked up by the roots, than after it hath long stood and is rooted deep in the ground. So is it more easy to forsake sin in the beginning, than after a long continuance i…