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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03691	The young-man's duty: or, Good council for young-men. Shewing the happiness of being good betimes. [W]ith an alarm from the eternal God, to drowsie saints and secure sinners. As also the young-mans objections an[s]wered, and the old-mans doubts resolved. / By Roger Hough.	Hough, Roger	1677 (1677)	Wing H2915A; ESTC R178262	8,881	27

choak the Word of God that it cannot bring forth grateful fruit to God Fourthly If Young-men delight in Riches and rejoyce in the Estates that God hath given them this lightness is a vain thing For First Many times wealth is gotten by deceit and then God bloweth on it Jer. 5.27 As a Cage full of Birds so are their Houses full of deceit therefore they are become great and waxen rich shall not I visit for these things saith the Lord and shall not my soul be revenged on such a People as this saith the Lord. Again Wealth is kept with sorrow and vexation Eccel 5.12 The sleep of the labouring man is sweet whether he eat li●tle or much but the abundance of the Rich will not suffer them to sleep Thirdly Wealth is left with a great deal of sorrow and vexation Rev. 18.18 When ●he smoak of Babylon ascended up to Heaven Oh what Lamentation there was they cryed out What City is like this great City and they cast ●he dust on their heads and cryed weeping and wailing saying Alas alas that great City wherein were made rich all that had ships on the Sea by reason of her constliness for in one hour 〈◊〉 she made desolate But suppose farther ●hat a man should get and keep his wealth in ●he fear of God yet these these things are most uncertain riches Lastly these riches cannot preserve your life so saith Christ himself Luke 12.25 Psal 62.9 and 49.78 Thus I have shewed the several things that Young-men rejoyce in and shewed ●ou likewise that their joy is founded upon vanity and this is the second means to heal young-men of their inordinateness of their joy to meditate with themselves how vain and frivo●ous all things are they delight in The third means is to betake themselves to seek spiritual joy the well-head of this joy is in God the grounds of this joy are 2 fold First The good things Exhibited Secondly The good things Promised The good things Exhibited That God hath written our names in the Book of Life Here is a Fountain of Spiritual I●n to a true Christian To rejoyce saith Christ not that the Devils are fallen before you but that your names are written in the Book of Life Secondly The other ground of Spiritual joy is The good things promised us and those may be reduced to two Heads God hath promised 1. That our afflictions shall be for our Edification And God hath promised deliverance from affliction all in the best season Again For the defects of Grace in us which indeed is a thing grievous to a true Christian here we may rejoyce First In the promise of preserving of Grace S●condly In the promise of augmentation an● growth in Grace Thirdly In the promise of bringing the weakest grace to perfection Here you haue the Well-head of joy O● that young men would know God and Iesus Christ and the Word of God and the Promises that they may leave this sinful sottish joy whereunto they are solicited this is the means to be rid of it by getting into their Souls the sense and feeling of the true joy of the Children of God Again In the second place Young men should be exhorted not to walk after their own hearts which is the next thing that Solomon noteth as a fault in them The heart saith Jeremiah is deceitful above measure and desperately wicked who would follow a false guide and a desperate Wicked guide so is the heart of man Lastly They should not walk after the fight of their Eyes David Prayed Turn away mine eyes that I regard not vanity and quicken me in thy Law And again Open mine eyes that I may see the Wondrous things of thy Law There is much danger in following our eyes Eve was mis-led by her eye She looked upon the forbidden-fruit and saw it beautiful and lusted after it And when I saw saith Achan among the spoils a goodly Babilonish Garment and a wedge of gold then I coveted them and took them Josh 7.21 David was defiled with the glance of his eye he saw Bathsheba from the roof of his house washing her self and then he lusted 2 Samuel 11.1 Holy Men have prayed to God that he would kéep their eyes in a right frame and temper These are the particulars that Solomon giveth to young men in direction to take heed of Carnal joy to take heed of walking after their Hearts these things Brethren I have committed in direction to you The last part of this Doctrine I have reserved for Old-men for if young-men may not rejoyce carnally much less may Old-men youth may plead for it self in want of Wisdome and Gravity and Experience better then those of Age. If young-men may not have evil hearts and eyes much less old men Look to it you that hear me this day that are stricken in age as the Scriptures saith that are smitten in your limbs with age that you cannot walk with activity and nimbleness and are smitten in your senses with age that you cannot well see and hear and faste Oh that your hearts would smite you for your sins Oh would to God you did bethink your selves before it be too late May not young men rejoyce in Pleasures in Friends in Honour in Wealth much less may old age must young men be careful to chase away all Carnal joy and get Spiritual joy that beginneth in godly Sorrow much more must old men It is no time for those that are Old to rejoyce in carnal things a few days will make an end of them and lay them in the Grave Oh the● you that are of years break off your Sins by Repentance and your iniquities by Mercy Rejoyce ye in being good and in doing good this joy will continue with you But know thou that for all this God will bring thee to judgement Doct. 2. That the Lord God will certainly bring men to Judgment for all the Sins they have committed But know thou must know it you should always remember it and whatsoever thou takest in hand consider with thy self whether it will stand with thee at that great day of judgement Mal. 3.18 A Book of Remembrance was written before God for those that fear the Lord and thought upon his Name So the Lord hath a Book of Remembrance wherein he writeth down the sins of the Sons of men and this shall be opened Eccles 12.14 God will bring every Work unto Judgement with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil 2 Cor. 5.10 We must all appear before the Judgement seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad 1 Thes 4.16 The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with a voice of the Arch-Angel and with the Trump of God Jude 14. For the opening of this Point I will briefly shew you these two things First What is the reason that God will bring all these things