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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	lust_n	youth_n	youthful_a	14	3	10.6149	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96523	Three decads of sermons lately preached to the Vniversity at St Mary's Church in Oxford: by Henry Wilkinson D.D. principall of Magdalen Hall.	Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.	1660 (1660)	Wing W2239; Thomason E1039_1; ESTC R204083	607,468	685

man is like a wild Asses Colt Aristotle accounts him an unfit hearer of morall Philosophy Neither Aristotle his Ethicks nor Tullyes offices can break a young colt This one word Volo is the bane of many young men They are refractory and will have their own will and a self-willed-man is felo de se his own executitioner with what violence doe young men pursue their lusts They leaue no stone unmoved for the satisfaction of their humours They measure not things by the light of judgment much lesse by the rule of the word but they act according to fancy and passion And there is an Anarchy in their passions or such a tumult or Ataxy in them as that they love what they should loath desire what they should abhorre rejoyce when they should mourn Nitimur in vetitum is the main trade they drive And thus unbridled youth without all government is like a City without gates and walls Satan and all his instruments will enter in speedily and surprize them A Second aggravation is because s●nnes commited in dayes of 2. Aggrav Because youthful sins are committed with greater delight youth are with abundance of delight and complacency acted by sinners Old men cannot act some ●innes though their hearts are as naught as ever by reason of naturall Impedements and indisposition of their present constitution But yong-men whose bones are full of marrow they delight in joviall company drinking gameing seeing Theatricall Enterludes They are young and therefore they put far from them the evil day Let them read that dreadfull woe Amos 6. 3. 4. 5. 6. It s the young man voyd of understanding that was enticed by the Whore Prov. 7. 22. Absolon was a young man that rebelled against hi● Father O what eager pursuits was there what delight what desire and endeavour to accomplish his designes He falls a fawning and flattring and so steales away the hearts of the people and then he will not tarry till his fathers death but on hee goeth with his designe A vow to God he pretends in his mouth but he meditates Treason and ●ebellion in his heart And you know what became of him David seemes to extenuatet he matter when he bids deal gently with the young man Absolom However the Rebell is no whit lesse in excuseble A Third aggravation is drawn from the many Pleas and vain 3 Aggravat is drawn from the waine pretences which young men make pretences that young men make they will tell you that youth must have a grain allowed what 's a Gentleman but his pleasure Now they are young hereafter they will think upon their soules They must haue a time to sow their wild Oates They can quote the * Laetitia juvenem Frons ●ecet tristis senem Sen. Trag. Tragedian Mirth becomes a young man gravity an old man Would they were as well verst in the book of God there they may read 2 Tim. 2. 22. Flee youthfull Lusts I have often seriously thought that Its no wonder to see so many wanton youths when as there remaine so many wanton Authours Poets I mean especially such as Horace Martiall Catullus Tibullus Propertius c. ●ho corrupt many young men It s high time that all such bookes were either throughly purged or els condemned to the fire as theirs were Act. 19. 19. You youngmen doe not plead for your pleasures Solomon tells you that Childhood and youth are vanities I remember Tertullian hath a saying Vides convivium peccatoris interroga ejus conscientiam c. There is death in the Pot In the middest of Tertul. laughter the heart is sorrowfull There is death in the Adulterers bed death in the Drunkards cup death in the deceivers false weights never plead pleasure in sinfull wayes But youth will plead will you allow no Recreation Eph. 5. 16. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Emercantes hoc est dato pretio ●sserrere in libertatem Erasm Est curiose merces considerare u● emas meliores C. a Lap I Answer that no recreation that is sinfull may at any time be allowed no recreation of ill report and scandalous no recreation as a vocation no mispending of time for we are commanded to redeeme time or making a good Market of time Only such recreations may be used as are of Good report which may serve as files and whetstones to devotion to draw thee neerer to God and not to keep thee farther off I may say of recreations as a Reverend Divine said of Ceremonyes some are tollerable none necessary but most be abominable Would you know the right pleasure It 's in the ways of wisdome Prov. 3 17. would you know the right object of rejoycing Vis nunquam esse tristis bene vive Bern. de modo bene vivendi It 's in God Phil. 4. 4. Bernard hath an excellent saying Wouldest thou never be sad live well Lay aside all your vaine pleadings study the scripture be much in prayer much in meditation and s●earching your own hearts and then you will find by experience that there is more true pleasure in one moments communion with God then in all the delights and vanityes of the whole world were they all put together The fourth and last Aggravation that I shall name is this Sins 4 Aggravat Sins of youth are greater because committed against warning and invitations of youth are greater sins and will cause the greatest bitterness because yong men sin after so many invitations calls and warnings from God The soul of God loves the first ripe fruits The Holy Ghost calls to day not to morrow Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth Thou must consecrate thy fresh green years to God Thou must dedicate the first fruits the●● first born the Mich. 7. 1. Eccles 12. 1. ●●●●dren of Israel were to give their first fruits their first born the best of their flock a Lamb withot blemish God calls for thy youth Wilt thou put him off with the refuse thy old crazy bones that I may speak it with reverence when the Devil hath suckt out the Marrow Wilt thou offer God empty bones Mal. 1. 8. Thy Governor will not accept of it Now thy sin is aggravated Hin● colligit se affici nimis gravi Injuriâ quod Judaei audeant offerre quod mortalis homo respueret Calv. because thou dost refuse Gods call at present upon presumption of space and grace for the future neither of which are in thy power He may give thee neither whilest thou art a refusing at the call of God to give him thy youth and thy fresh green years he may be a sweating that there shall be no more time and cut thee asunder in the midst of thy sins and cast thee into eternal torments or if God give theespace it 's doubtful whether he will give thee grace It 's said of Jezabell Rev. 2. 21 I gave her space to repent but she repented not There is a Peradventure 2 Tim. 2. 25.