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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61859	Lessons moral and Christian, for youth and old age in two sermons preach'd at Guildhall Chappel, London : chiefly intended for the use of this city / by John Stryp ...	Strype, John, 1643-1737.	1699 (1699)	Wing S6022; ESTC R33818	27,625	134

it on Scripture Foundations He gave free Invitation and gracious Reception to all Forreign Professors of the Gospel persecuted at home for their Religion So that tho he were but a Child he was a Father a true Nursing Father to God's Church and People And truly it was not without a notable Providence of God not to be forgotten and which under God was the great Cause of the Preservation of the Reformed Religion that while the Gospel at that Time was miserably opprest almost in all Parts of the World in Flanders in Germany in France in Spain in Italy in Poland for in all these Countries the Religion had already taken sooting and Combinations were entred into by the Rulers of the World to extirpate it every where England was in this King's Reign the common Asylum for Religious and Learned Men to fly unto And hither they flocked daily both for Shelter and Subsistence And Abundance of Annuities and Pensions did the young Godly King grant unto them out of his own Treasures and bestowed many of these Exiles in Places in the Church and in both the Universities And such was his Care for the Education of Youth in good and Christian Manners that during his Short Reign which was not Seven Years he founded more Schools throughout all Places of the Nation than I believe did all the Norman Kings that Reigned before him put together And I find that in little less then the space of twelve months he founded at least twelve Free-Schools And his Care of the Education of Youth further appeared in the Order he took in his own Family for his Henchmen that is his Pages and other Youths attending him For whom he appointed a School on purpose and retained a Schoolmaster And for his Encouragement assigned him a Salary for Life And as for his Charitable Mind it was scarce to be paralell'd And this City feels the good effect of it to this day and will do I hope to the World's End For excited by a Sermon which was preached before him by Ridley the Martyr then Bishop of London he settled upon your City for the Relief of your Poor the Hospital of St. Bartholomew the Gray-Friars Church near Newgate now called Christ's Hospital and Bridewell the Antient Mansion of the English Kings and the Savoy too with the Lands thereof But this last Gift he lived not to finish Yet he had such a real Intention to pass it to the City that he left it in his Will That the Grant made to the Mayor and City of London touching the Savoy and the Lands thereof should be performed And as he lived so he dyed most piously and devoutly recommending most heartily himself and his Kingdoms to God He had a grave and manly Mind in a Young Body All Foreigners that saw or heard of him admired him and wrote vast Characters of him Cardanus the great Philosopher who saw and talked with him reported in a printed Book That all the Graces were in him and that he lookt like the Miracle of a Man Caelius Secundus Curio another great learned Foreigner of Basil called him a Prince of Divine Hopes and a Godlike Youth adding That had he lived to adult years and had come to the Government of the Kingdom freed from the Tuition of his Courtiers which were none of the best what Realm on Earth had been happier what Nation ever more blessed But God was minded only to shew him to the World and suffer him no longer to abide in it But I must refrain begging your Pardons for saying so much it being hard in such a pleasant Subject to contain my self To hasten to a Conclusion Are not young Men stirred up by these brave Examples that I have set before them Can they consider these Men how well they began their Lives how Serviceable and Zealous they were for God and his Glory and what Attainments they made in Virtue and Goodness even in their tender Years and are they not inflamed to follow such notable Patterns Is it not more for their Reputation and Honour for their Comfort and the Satisfaction of their Consciences than to run with the Heard of Youth in this our evil Age towards all Loosness and Licentiousness Filthiness and Uncleanness in their Words and Deeds to the Pollution of their Souls and the drawing down the Anger of God upon them III. And now to make an end I cannot think but that all ingenuous Youth after all that I have said will feel strong Inclinations in themselves to take the Apostles Counsel to be Sober-minded To Watch their Affections to lay upon themselves the Bridle of Continency and Modesty to curb and rein up their Passions and their unruly Desires to chuse the Fear of God rather than the Pleasures of Sin for a Season If you want direction in this Work if you would know how you should keep your selves clean David will teach you Who asketh this needful Question and answereth it full well Wherewithal shall a Young Man cleanse his Way By taking heed thereto according to thy Word Psal. cxix 9 Or according to the Old Translation By ruling himself after thy Word Oh! Let God's Word be thy Guide and thy Rule And then thou hast God himself and his Holy Spirit to be thy Directer Who is best able to instruct thee and shew thee the Courses thou oughtest to take and which will prove most advantagious to thee Stir not an Inch from the Prescriptions of God's Word Let that be thy Maxim and thy Principle 'T is a dangerous World we live in and we ought to have our Wits about us how to behave our selves in all the various Circumstances of humane Life lest by some Slip or Error or Inadvertency in the Beginning of our setting out we draw misery and trouble upon our selves ever after And we ought to have some Wise Person to be our Counsellor for this Purpose But there is no Counsellor so safe as God himself And then we have him for our Counsellor when we take his Word for our Rule and ask Counsel there Oh! therefore let all young Men diligently read the Scriptures and make them their Study and their Practice And let them never doubt to follow most strictly the Counsels and Admonitions thereof however at first Sight they may seem inconvenient or dangerous to take For be assured Integrity and Righteousness Truth and Innocency and an Awe of God upon which all the Precepts of Holy Scripture are founded will bear a Man out best at the last and give our Lives the best Conclusion I conclude all therefore with the Son of Syrach's Exhortation to young Folks to get the true Wisdom Draw near unto me ye unlearned and dwell in the House of Learning Buy her for your selves without Mony Put your Neck under the yoke and let your Soul receive Instruction She is hard at hand to find Work your Work betimes that is while you are Young and in his time he will give the your Reward

the Remembrance of him unto this Day through so many successive Generations of the World That a Man so young in years should have such a great Sense of God upon his Soul and have the Courage to do so much for him Of him thus doth Iesus the Son of Syrach speak Ecclus. xlix 1 2. The Remembrance of Josias is like the Composition of the Perfume that is made by the Art of the Apothecary It is sweet as Hony in all Mouths and as Musick at a Banquet of Wine He behaved himself uprightly in the Conversion of his People he means from their Idolatry and took away the Abominations of Iniquity He directed his Heart unto the Lord and in the Time of the Vngodly he established the Worship of God And that which was the Glory of all the rest this he did even in his young and tender Age. In the Eighth Year of his Reign that is when he was but Sixteen years old while he was yet young he began to seek after the God of David his Father 2 Chron. xxxiv 3 And in the Twelfth Year that is being but Twenty years of Age he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high Places and the Groves c. Iob also from his tenderest Age was disposed and addicted to Piety He loved and was tender of the Poor even from his Childhood as he tells us himself If I have with-held the Poor from their Desire or have caused the Eyes of the Widow to fail Or have eaten my Morsel my self alone and the Fatherless hath not eaten thereof Job xxxi 16 17 18. And then observe what followeth For from my YOUTH he that is the Fatherless was brought up with me as with a Father From his Youth he was as a Father to the Fatherless And I have guided her that is the Widow before spoken of from my Mother 's Womb. From my Mother's Womb he means from his very first Age when he was very young he had a Love and a Compassion for poor Widows and when he was but a Child he shewed himself a Father to Orphans And as he grew on in years still he persevered in the same charitable compassionate Sense of their Wants and according to his large Ability and Authority relieved them Such another early good Man was Iesus the Son of Syrach who was the Compiler of that excellent Book of Ecclesiasticus so replenisht with Sentences of great Wisdom and Rules of Admirable Morality and good Life This Man from his Youth thirsted after Wisdom that is the Fear of God and prayed to God to bestow it on him and added his own Endeavour and obtain'd it Which he thus relateth to us himself Ecclus. Li. 13 c. When I was yet young or ever I went abroad I desired Wisdom openly in my Prayer I prayed for her before the Temple and will seek her out even to the End Even from the Flower till the Grape was ripe that is from the Spring of his Years till the Autumn of his Age my Heart delighted in her my Foot went the right way From my Youth up I sought after her And so he goes on relating his Youth spent in the Pursuit of Virtue I purposed to do after her and earnestly I followed that which was good My Soul hath wrestled with her and in my Doing I was exact I stretched forth my hands to the Heavens above and bewailed mine Ignorances of her I directed my Soul unto her and I found her in Pureness that is in my Pure Age before the Defilements of Age corrupted it I have had my Heart joyned with her from the Beginning And this excellent young Man was Iesus the Son of Syrach But there was another young Iesus greater than this Iesus even our ever blessed Lord and Master CHRIST JESUS We have not much recorded to us of his young years till he came to display himself for the Messiah about the Age of Thirty But what is set down in Holy Writ before that time concerning him sheweth how early his Piety appeared It is said of the Days next after his Infancy That the Child grew and waxed strong in Spirit filled with Wisdom and the Grace of God was upon him Luk. ii 40 However weak in Body young in years he was yet he was Strong in Spirit and filled with Wisdom And the next News you have of him was that being but Twelve Years Old when he and his Parents came to Ierusalem to Worship God he goes into the Temple and sits among the Doctors to confer with them upon Points of Religion and thought himself obliged so early to be occupied about his Father's Business As he tells his Parents that had lost him and found him at last in the Temple Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's Business To all these admirable Examples of excellent Young men in former Times I will add one modern one And that is of K. Edward VI. our English Iosiah Of his rare Parts and extraordinary Learning even in his Childhood I shall not speak But of his good Disposition and Religious Mind I shall make a little mention for the enflaming of Youth especially Youth of Nobility and Blood to labour as much as they can to be such as he was He was addicted to a Fear of God from his youngest years And that appeared in the mighty Reverence he bore to the Holy Scriptures When something he was minded to have was somewhat higher than he could well reach and one of his Play-fellows brought him a great Bible to stand upon he refused it with Indignation abhorrring to shew any such Irreverence towards that Holy Book as he conceived it would be if he should have trod upon it He came to the Crown at the Age of Nine Years and Two or Three Months and there is an Author that lived in those Times and knew that young King well that at his Coronation when Three Swords were presented to him in token of the Three Kingdoms to which he was advanc'd the Royal Youth said to the Nobles about him that there was one Sword yet wanting And when they asked him what that was he answered The Bible That Book added he is the Sword of the Spirit and much to be preferred before these other Swords He that Rules without it is not to be called God's Minister nor ought to bear the Name of King Under that we ought to Live to Fight to Govern And when he had said these and the like Words he commanded the Bible to be brought and with the greatest Reverence to be carried before him When he was between Eleven and Twelve Years of Age he wrote without the Help of any Instructor an ingenious Tract in French against the Abuses put upon the World by Popery Wherein by Reason and Variety of Places of Scripture he confuted most of the Popish Errors Throughout his Short Reign he had a peculiar Care of Religion and gave all Encouragement to the right Reforming and Settling of