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A66469	A young man's fancy to the rising generation being a sermon preached upon the death, and at the desire of John Tappin of Boston, who deceased at Fairfield the 10th of October 1672, being in the nineteenth year of his age / by Samuel Wakeman ...	Wakeman, Samuel, 1635-1692.	1673 (1673)	Wing W279; ESTC R18408	44,372	48

A YOUNG MAN'S LEGACY TO The Rising Generation Being a SERMON Preached upon the Death and at the Desire of John Tappin of Boston Who deceased at Fairfield the 10th of October 1672. being in the Nineteenth year of his Age. By SAMUEL WAKEMAN Pastor of the Church of Christ there Eccles 7.2 It is better to go to the house of mourning then to go to the house of feasting for that is the end of all men and the living will lay it to his heart Eccles 11.9 Rejoyce O young man in thy youth and let thy heart chear thee in the dayes of thy youth and walk in the wayes of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know thou that for all th●se things God will bring thee into judgement CAMBRIDGE Printed by Marmaduke J●●●s●n 1673. A YOUNG MAN'S LEGACY TO The Rising Generation Eccles 12.1 Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth while the evil dayes come not nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them BE pleased to understand That the Text that I have now read unto you is not of mine own choosing but was chosen by him a little before he left us who is now in another World It was his earnest desire about two or three dayes before his death being apprehensive that his change was at hand that I would Preach a Sermon for him upon this Text His surviving Friend and Companion who held him very dear and with whom he left it to prosecute this his desire hath been unsatisfiedly urgent with me in this behalf That the earnest desire of the dying and the will of the dead as to this matter might be fulfilled which seconded by others hath drawn me to this which i● may be I have been too loth to attend I would not reluct or deny when mans will and desire carrieth with it any signification or intimation of the will of God or shun any occasion or opportunity of doing any the least good which his Providence is commending to me and such I dare not say but this is You may look upon this Sermon then as the Request of the Deceased as The Legacy which this Young man hath left by his last W●●● to the Rising Generation Me-thinks it seems to me that our business with this Text at this time mine and yours is from the becknings of Divine Providence thereunto directing for not onely the desire of the deceased calling us as it were with his last breath to the consideration of this Subject but his Death nor his alone but that of others lately taken away both among our selves and in Neighbour-Plantations whose gray hairs and wrinkles of Age Death hath prevented and the solemn and awakening Providence of God in these Dispe●sations are loudly calling me and you and all of us ye Younger sort especially who are apt to put it off to an early timely remembring God according to the Counsel given in our Text Remember now thy Creator in the d●yes of thy youth c. THis whole Book is in the substance of it a serious calling men back unto God a recalling men that are forget● ng God forsaking their own mercies and following after lying vanities from those vain emp y fru●tless pursuances to the remembrance of him The sum of this whole Discourse wherein G●eat and Wise and Experienced Solomon is giving us in his own account that we may know what to trust to stand upon these two Points 1. That the Chief Good of the sons of men is not to be found in all Creatures under the Sun nor in mens labours and travails about them all the good that by the greatest industry can be gotten out of them being but vanity and vexation of spirit as he after a thorow tedious search had found ●y woful experience 2. That mans Happiness is to be found onely in God and in the being unto Him This is that great Conclusion that he is laying down as the sum and issue of all in the 13th Verse of this 12th Chapter Let us hear the Conclusion of the whole matter Fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole of man Upon these grounds we have him throughout this Discourse as cautioning men against Creature pursua●ces and seeki●● happiness where it is not to be had and nothing can be extracted by the most skilful Chymistry but vanity and vexation of spirit so calling them to the Creator and the remembrance of him in whom and wherein their Happiness doth indeed consist Amongst many other Arguments Motiv s and Perswasions which we have used all along in this Book to disswade men from an over-mindfulness of thoughtfulness about and eager seeking happiness in the Creature the Wise-man drawing towards a conclusion is urging home this great Argument taken from the brevity of life the certainty of approaching death and the solemn and momentous Consequences attending and following upon it We have him sometimes touching upon it before but more fully falling in with it at the 7th Verse of the 11th Chapter and prosecuting it to the 8th Verse of this 12th Chapter Of al● the Argument● which to untye and take us off from the Creature as vain and provoke and necessitate us to the remembrance of God there is none more plain sensible palp●ble pr●ssi g cog●nt and that may go further to convince fl●sh and b●ood a Se● 〈◊〉 ●t himself th●n the consid●●● 〈…〉 the brevity 〈◊〉 Life a d the l ng Eternity ●fter the certainty of D●●●● a d the strict A●count that follows i● 〈◊〉 A●gument 〈◊〉 the most fo cib●e tak ng p e●●ent the W se-man is rese●ving to and improvi g in the last p●ce taking in with i● ●s we were s●yi●g at ver 7. of t e fo●●going and urging 〈◊〉 home in the s●●●●l of that and in the b g n●ing of this Chap 〈◊〉 especially up●n Yo●●g m n that are most apt t p●●●s●●nd pamper themselves 〈…〉 fl●urish ●g Age putting the evil any f●r off B●●n a few words to come to our ●ext I 〈◊〉 in in Argument tak n from the brevity of Lif● the certainty of Death and the momentous C ●sequences attending it which we have the P ●a her propo●●ng in v r. 7. 8. of the foregoing Chap er Truly ● ght is ●weet an●●●p●●●●nt th ng it is for the eyes to behold the Sun but if a man ●ive many years and rej●yce in them all yet let him remember the dayes of dar●ness for they shall be many all that cometh is vanity and closely ●nd cuttingly applying to young men that are most apt to put it off in v●r 9. R joy●● O young man in thy youth and let thy heart chear thee in the d●yes of thy youth and walk in the wayes of thy heart and in thy sight of thine eyes but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgement We have ●im making two Inferences or exhorting to a twofold duty the forme we have in

Venice-glasses not those that are first made are first broke but those that are first knockt Death is often sudden and unexpected in its approaches the evil day is very nigh sometimes when men are putting it furthest off The fool in the Gospel-Parable lessons us how prone we are to cast up our Accounts for many years when it may be we have not one night to live The notion of Death is too apt to look to all men especially to young men like Ezekiel's Vision Chap. 42.27 The Vision that he seeth it for many dayes and he prophecieth of times that are afar off Young men look it may be on the gray-headed as well on their way to the Grave and haply think it is time for old men to think of dying but from themselves they put it at a great distance but most true it is that Senibus Mors in januis adolescentibus in insidiis Death is oftentimes as near the young mans back as it is the old mans face even while he saith of Death as the unfaithful Servant in the Gospel of his Lord He delayeth his coming it cometh in a day when he looketh not for it and in an hour when he is not aware of and calleth him off and sendeth him unprepared as he is to the Land of Darkness whence there is no redemption O think man hath not death surprized many a poor unprovided sinner that put the evil day far off as confidently and upon as good grounds as thy self Hath nor Death prevented many a careless inconsiderate Loyterer who looked as little for his coming as thou doest and whose purposes for the future were as hopeful as thine now are Hast thou not followed ma●y a one to the Grave that had as probable Arguments for a longer ●●●e as any thou canst have Continual experience tells thee it is not thy Youth or Health and Strength that can save thee or so much as a little while Reprieve the Arrest of Death how dost thou dare then to put off one day when thou knowest not but it may be thy putting by for ever Do but suppose a dreadful yet probable supposition while thou art putting off and delaying a little and yet a little longer Death should step in and prevent thee O me-thinks this Argument if nothing else will should effectually deterre thee from loytering and throughly awaken thee to a now remembring thy Creator I have said what I shall say upon this Text beseeching you that it may be thought upon and beseeching God to give his blessing But I have another Subject that I must crave a few minutes time and a grain or two of patience more to say something of and that is the Young man lately deceased at whose Request and as whose Bequest you have had this Sermon and it is not the Commendation of the dead that is the thing intended he needs it not but the Instruction of the living As his Death in the time and manner of it was a real Sermon upon the Text of which we have been speaking so in other respect was his Life also in some good degree and I have two sayings to young men especially upon this Subject 1. In some things observable in him as to his Life he was a Patern for your Imitation 2. In some things observable about him as to his Death he was an Example for your Admonition First In some things observable in him as to his Life he was a Patern for your Imitation but to intimate some few things of special remark 1. He was a young man of an innocent Conversation of a civil sober Behaviour he was not of a debauched dissolute life nor did he run with others to that excess of riot which with sad hearts we see many young men do his Conversation was not spotted with such marks of deboistness as are too visible upon too many of his Age. Now though Civility Sobriety Morality are not Grace yet they are Jewels of price that have an amiableness and loveliness both in the eyes of God and good men it is said of the young man in the Gospel-story in Mark 10.21 that when Christ had heard from him what he had done how he had lived that he was a civil sober moral man though evident it is by the story that he was a stranger to the power of godliness that Jesus beholding him loved him Not but that I am perswaded better things of the young m●● of whom we are speaking and things that have accompanied salvation though I thus speak but to shew you that a meer Civil Sober Moral man is otherwise by God looked upon then others are that are Scandalous and Profane Christ hath a common love even to the better sort of ungodly men mo●e then to the worst a civil sober outwardly conform●ble life hath its account with God not that I would have you rest here I hope his Example led you h●gher 2. He was a young man of a serious Spirit he had som● 〈◊〉 weight with him and worth in him It is said of him by th●● 〈◊〉 ●he Family where he formerly sojourned amongst us for some time 〈◊〉 now lately died and took his leave of this world That they never h●●●d a vain misbecoming word come out of his mouth and his Conversation was according he was not vainly given nor spent his time in Drinking Gaming Company-keeping as many do but was much in Reading and took delight when his other business afforded him any leisure to be amongst his Books and Papers and very ready he was upon occasion for the help of others upon such accounts Alas a young man of a serious Spirit that is of some weight and worth that is something besides meer froth and vanity that mindes something worthy a man is too rare a sight amongst us Oh the exceeding vanity of the younger sort and too many of the elder too Alas what a meer Bubble of Vanity wrapped up in a bundle of fine Clothes is many a young Man many a Maid their clothing may be costly but their hearts their mindes as the Wise-man speaks Prov. 10.20 are little worth O how empty are they of all that is of worth that good is but running over with meer vanity and superfluity of naughtiness as the Apostle speaks Jam. 1.21 Mens mindes and mouthes run over with very froth and vanity scarce a serious thought in the one or a sober savoury word in the other not a Bible or a good Book in hand the week long it may be you had a better Example in him then this comes to 3. This young man as is credibly testified of him was a dutifull Childe to his Parents he was inured to bear the yoke from his youth He could almost say as the Son in the Parable to his Father Luke 15.29 Neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment Never but once as himself was saying to an intimate Friend of his not long before his death was he unseasonably absent from his Fathers