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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95992	Counsel for youth; delivered in two sermons upon Psalm 119. vers 9. Preached by H.V. Rector of Alhallows-Honie-lane.	U. H.	1650 (1650)	Wing V6; Thomason E590_9; ESTC R206331	29,168	39

thereto according to Thy Word The whole vers may bee resolved into these propositions or points of doctrine 1. Youth is and young mens waies are naturally corrupt 2. The waies of godlie young men are no better then they should bee 3. They had need to bee reformed 4. Godlie men endeavour the reformation of their waies 5. It 's an hard thing for young men to reform their waies 6. Yet it 's a possible thing for them to do it 7. Man know's not of himself how to do it but 8. God is readie to teach us if wee consult with him 9. The waie to cleans or reform our waies is by taking heed thereto according to God's Word Of these I shall speak in order beeing more brief in som of them while I insist more largely upon others Propos 1. Youth is and young mens waies are naturally corrupt It 's plain in the Text for what need were there els for young mens waies to bee cleansed nothing need 's cleansing but that which is foul or corrupt And this God himself who made us and therefore know's us doth attest whiles hee saie's of man Gen. 8.21 The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth Hence it was that Solon's Laws did not admit a young man to Magistracie though hee were otherwise of good abilities The Romans admitted none to the Senate till hee was five and twentie years old The Canons of our Church admitted none to the order of Deacon the first degree of Ministerie Numb 8.24 Act. 7.23 till hee was three and twentie years of age The law of God concerning the Levites admitted none to minister till hee was five and twentie years old Moses was ful fourtie years old when hee first visited his brethren Christ himself was full thirtie years old Luke 3.23 when Hee first set upon His publick Ministerie and the like is said of John the Baptist All these laws and examples cast a kinde of imputation upon youth especially if yee look into the reason Philip. 5. which Tullie give 's of the Roman law Cùm grandiorem aetatem ad Consulatum constituebant temeritatem adolescentiae verebantur The Romans requiring more ripeness of years in them that were to bee admitted to Magistracie feared the rashness of youth And wee hear Eccles 10.16 what the wise man saie's Wo to thee O land when thy King is a childe And it is to bee observed to this purpose 2 Chron. 10.8.13.16 what danger befell Rehoboam by following the counsel of the young men no less then the revolt of the ten Tribes To this purpose it is also that Plutarch saie's that Youth hath more need of a Governour then childhood And therefore when Nero told Seneca that such an old doting fellow as hee should bee set over children the Philosopher answered wisely Magis regenda est fervida adolescentia Hot youth hath more need to bee governed And therefore wisdom in the book of the Proverbs give 's her counsel stil to young men ever saying My son my son And Salomon put 's young men in minde of the last judgment in that shewing them to bee vitious Rejoice O young man saie's hee in thy youth Eccles 11.9 c. but know that for these things God will bring thee to judgment And if I should make a catalogue of the corruptions of youth haply I should offend the younger sort though in what I shall saie my aim is not to shame or dis-hearten but by setting their danger before their eies to warn and arm them against it I am sure it would take up a great deal of time to do it largely Take it therefore briefly 1 Tim. 2.22 1. Hear the Apostle advising his scholar Timothie Flie the lusts of youth then youth hath its lusts and mee think's Plutarch though a Pagan make 's a good comment upon that text saying Juventus variis cupiditatibus obnoxia c. Youth is prone to divers lusts to anger to desire of rule to ambition to intemperance about meats drinks apparel and bodilie pleasures 2. These lusts rage and rule in youth nor can they so easily withstand or curb them and therefore the Tragoedian saie's well Juvenile vitium est regere non posse impetum It 's a vice of young men that they cannot curb the violence of lusts but with an headlong proneness they run into sin that waie which lie's open before them like a water-cours 3. They are inconsult without knowledg and counsel they want that experience which old age hath and so are quickly deceived and which is lamentable pejora juvenes facilè praecepta audiunt they are more prone to follow bad counsel then good And this doth Solomon shew Prov. 7.7 13 14 21 22 23. in that young man soon carried away with the enticing speeches of the strange woman and following her as an Ox to the slaughter or as a fool to the correction of the stocks till a dart strike thorough his liver as a bird hasteth to the snare not knowing that it is for his life And this wee see too usual in woful experience that many young men stop their ears against their parents and masters yea and of the Ministers of God advising and admonishing them in love for their good but their ears are open to the evil counsels of those who by flattering words endeavour to draw them to destructive courses 4. When they know little or nothing they are yet prone to bee high-conceited of themselvs so that they think themselvs wiser then the aged and too good to bee taught and admonished by any 5. Mark what Salomon saie's Prov. 22.15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a childe See here is then an whole bundle of follie 6. Hear him again Childhood and youth are vanitie Eccles 11.10 hee saie's not Vanitie is in them but the age it self is vanitie as compact and made up of vanitie 7. And as one note 's well the word redress or cleans here used is a metaphor signifying the clearing of glass which though it bee clean will yet soon gather filth even in the sun-beams and of it self which note 's the great corruption of this age especially if wee have regard to our nativitie which is corrupt and unclean as David confesse's Psal 51.5 In sin I was born To conclude in a word this age youth I mean may well bee compared to a gnat that leaving the wine delight 's in the lees to a maid having the green sickness who delights in claie and things of il juice rather then in wholsom food to an unbroken colt for unstaiedness to a lion for wrath to a shee-bear for crueltie to an ape for imitation of every evil or new-fangled fashion to a mad dog for indiscretion for wantonness to a goat and to a swine for filthiness Vse 1. The thought of this is profitable for young men three waies 1. It may bring them into a dislike of this age It 's the thought