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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	heart_n	young_a	youth_n	75	3	8.0087	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44543	The sirenes, or, Delight and judgment represented in a discourse concerning the great day of judgment and its power to damp and imbitter sensual delights, sports, and recreations / by Anthony Horneck ...	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1690 (1690)	Wing H2853; ESTC R8310	130,970	370

brutish part of the World said there was But while he tried Experiments upon the Viper the Beast flew into his Face and poyson'd the Empirick He went on in these slippery ways and walk'd on this Sea of Glass a considerable time spread the Sails of his sensual Desires and bid his carnal Mind ask and crave whatever it could fancy and if either Love or Money or Force could procure it it should have it He hugg'd all the little shooting flames he met with and kissed every thing that had the name and reputation of Mirth ●●d Jollity But see the sad Catastrophe and woful turn of that pleasant Wheel when he thought himself in Paradise he found himself in Hell and that which tickled his Senses at the first proved after some time his greatest torment and vexation Providence can be silent for a time but at last the sleeping Lion wakes and roars so that all the Beasts of the Field do tremble and Solomon on whose Head the Candle of the Lord had shined so long found that Light at last go out in a Snuff and himself the Object of Gods wrath and indignation he found by sad experience what it was to abuse the Wisdom God had bestowed upon him how dangerous the Paths were he had walked in what it was to pervert the End and Design of the Gifts of God and what darkness and confusion it brought upon Men and that makes him impart this sad Memento to the Man who hath Blood and Youth and Strength enough to be vain and foolish Rejoyce O young Man in thy Youth and let thy Heart chear thee in the days of thy Youth c. By way of Explication I must take notice of these few things 1. That the words young Man and Youth in Scripture especially in this Book are not only meant of that time we commonly allow to Youth which is from Ten or Fourteen to Twenty or Five and Twenty but include all that Age which is fit for Action and the Hebrew words import so much being derived from a Root implying Choice and Election so that the time here aimed at is the most vigorous time of our Life or that time which any Man of Sense would chuse for Action 2. That those Sentences which sound like Exhortations are perfectly Ironical or spoke by way of derision as if we should say to a Man Go play the Fool burn thy Finger in the Candle and see what thou wilt get by it whereby we do not mean that he should do so but do rather express the silliness and simplicity of the thing to make him avoid it And such Ironical Expressions or mocking Exhortations are very frequent in Scripture as 1 Reg. 18. 27. Cry aloud for he is asleep which is a kind of mocking the stupid Priests of Baal that called on a Stock or Stone so Jer. 49. 11. Leave thy Fatherless Children and let thy Widows trust in me i. e. Ay go comfort thy self with this that I will take care of thy Fatherless Children and provide for thy Widows but thou shalt find thy self egregiously mistaken So 2 Cor. 12. 13. For what is it wherein you were inferior to other Churches except it be that I my self was not burdensom to you Forgive me this wrong i. e. If I did wrong you in doing so it was a very pleasant Wrong or Injustice for which you have more reason to thank me than to be angry with me So here Rejoyce O young Man c. i e. go play the Mad-man let thy sensual Appetite rove gratifie thy Flesh please thy besotted Heart fix thine Eyes on what Beauty thou thinkest fit sing Care and Reason and thy Wits away and see what the issue of all will be and so much is evident from the following words which are a Bridle to all these Extravagancies and the Gall that embitters all these Sweets and therefore the Chaldee Paraphrase justly turns these Mock-exhortations into a serious Admonition Walk in humility let not thine Eyes gaze upon that which is evil but be exceeding cautious and so the Septuagint Walk spotless in the ways of thy Heart and not in the Lust of thine Eyes 3. God brings a Man into Judgment two ways either by causing his Conscience to awake with horror in this life and laying some other heavy Affliction upon him and there is Mercy in this Process for this may yet lead the forlorn Soul to serious thoughts of Repentance bring the Pangs and Throws of the New-Birth upon her and deliver her into a New-Creature Or where God intends a higher degree of Wrath and Indignation he lets the jovial Sinner alone on this side Hell and the burthen shall not fall on him till he comes to look the angry Judg in the Face at which time as the Surprize will be greater so the horror and anguish of Mind which will seize on the Sinner will like Nebuchandnezzar's Furnace prove seven times hotter than ordinary upon which follows eternal Despair and endless howling and gnashing of Teeth The Result of all is this Proposition That the Prospect of a future Judgment is enough to embitter all the sensual and carnal Delights of Men particularly of young Men and to bring a Damp upon the most youthful and most jovial temper imaginable Not only the Sense of the Text I have already laid down imports so much but there is this farther in it that the Wise-man seems to couch his Argument plainly thus Do but take a view of that dreadful Judgment God is resolved to bring thy guilty Soul to and thou wilt not dare to indulge thy self in the mad rejoycings of thy Youth nor walk in the ways and after the Fancies of thy corrupted heart nor suffer thy wanton Eyes to fix on those Objects from which God hath bid thee turn thy Face away You know the Story of the young Gallant who riding by a lonely Hermit's Cell and finding the solitary Man very devout and fervent in Prayer and looking with a severe and mortified countenance called to him Father Father what a Fool are you to debar your self of the charming Refreshments and Pleasures of this Life and live here immured within Walls of Mud and Clay What if there should be no other world to what purpose is all this Rigor and Mortification The Hermit heard him smiled and replied Ay but Friend What if there should be one where are you then What a Fool will you be then How will you wish that you had been in my condition The Youngster startled at these words went home left his Women and his Swine his Lusts and dry Husks of brutish Delights and like the Prodigal became another Man The Truth is we have seen this prospect of a future Judgment have very strange Effects upon a Man who was not apt to be frighted with sad Prognostications and that was Felix a Person who had drunk as deep of the stolen Waters of Sensuality as any Man then living for he lay in the embraces of