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A43453	The importance of religion to young persons represented in a sermon preached at the funeral of Sir Thomas Vinor, Baronet, in St. Hellens Church, London, May the 3d, 1683 / by Hen. Hesketh ...	Hesketh, Henry, 1637?-1710.	1683 (1683)	Wing H1612; ESTC R12084	11,579	35

that Sin however pleasant it seems in it's present appearance yet is really afflictive and sad in the Tryal and Issue just as the Caresses of an Harlot are Inviting and Charming at first but deadly as the Sting of a Serpent and destructive as the Embraces of Death at the latter end And Wicked Men are therefore called Vain and Foolish because they are cheated by the Appearance and Deceitfulness of Sin as the Apostle speaks and made to expect a great deal of Happiness and Delight when alas the Dead are there and its Paths lead down unto Hell 3. Vanity is often used to express that which is fleeting and uncertain and soon fadeth or passeth away thus all Flesh is called Vanity and compared to the Flower of the Field Man is called Vanity because subject still to the Stroak of Death and of no fixed continuance The Glory of the World and the Possessions of it are called Vanity and often said to be Vain because so subject to decay The Happiness and Prosperity of wicked Men is called Vanity because they stand in slippery places and Riches are called Vain because so Volatile and Uncertain and because they make themselves Wings and Flye away Now Youth is called Vanity in all these respects 1. For its prosecution of Vain and deceitful things its judgment is not Ripe nor hath its reason attained to any consistency it is easily imposed upon by shews and appearances it sees but the outside of things is easily captivated and charmed with flattering and guilded Pretences and Frauds and Cheats are easily put upon them This is one great reason why its Temper and Inclinations are so desultory and uncertain now hot in the pursuit of one Vanity and presently another now its Hawk and then its Hound and after these its Horse or its Mistress Ingross its respects because it fixeth only by chance and uncertain contingences and as these wild reasons alter its Choice and Affection varies too Or because it is soon cloyed with any one of these and finds not that satisfaction that it expected it therefore beats for new and rangeth over the whole Periphery because none satisfieth its expectations 2. It is called Vanity upon a Second and worse account of Vanity because it is subject to many Sensual Lusts that hurry and betray it into Sin and Wickedness and drown Men in Perdition as the Apostle Speaks The inclinations of Sense are Strong and Rampant the Powers of Reason and Understanding weak and small not able to see into the Truth of things nor to bridle those impetuous Lusts that are so easily Fired and Captivated by any thing that promiseth present gratification for this cause you have mention of Youthful Lusts 2 Tim. 2.22 i e. such as that Age is especially incident unto 3. Youth is called Vanity upon the last reason also i. e. because it is frail and of uncertain continuance and Young Men as subject to the Stroak and Seizures of Death as any others nay indeed a great deal more and had we not reason for the Truth of this assertion yet we might easily vouch certain and dayly experience for it I am too Sensible how apt Young Persons are to think otherwise and venture to act upon such Wild Conceits they Imagine they have the World before them and a great deal of Time that they may presume upon but had they either reason to judge of things or would give themselves leisure to make any due observations they would soon see the Vanity and Hazard of this Fancy Alas their Tempers and Constitutions are tender and not yet come to any firm consistency frail and soon broken as the Fine Glass and a thousand times more subject to any External Impressions then when their Tempers are Hardened and their Bodies Setled the Early Bud and the new Blown Flower is Ten times more Incident to every Blast and Storm than the well Grown Branch every little Frost Nips and Spoils the Beauty of the one while the other can stand the shock of Winter and defie the rude and Cold salutes of the Northern Snows And would Young Persons but look abroad and take account of those that Pass to the Regions of the Dead they would find there were as much difference in the Numbers of the Young and old as they see there is between the Blossoms and the Ripe Fruit there being Thousands of the one that fall to the Ground for one of the other that is gathered into the Basket We see but a very few Hoary Heads and in this Age of Luxury and Intemperance are like every day to see fewer and therefore may without any great help of Logick infer that multitudes of Persons die young These are the reasons now upon which Youth is especially called Vanity and what strength there is in these to engage young Persons to Religion and a great regard to it 2. Is the second thing proposed in which I shall endeavour with all possible plainness and convenient brevity to Improve this Argument and perswade Youth to a great sense and due care of Religion which is the design to which the Wiseman useth it in this place 1. And first it is one good Argument to engage such to Religion to consider what Idle Vain Impertinent things they will else be still in the pursuit of Their busie Heads and active Thoughts will still be set upon something their Spirits are volatile and still upon the wing and some project or other they will always be upon and if Religion do not in some good degree season their minds and give measures to their regards and care Lord how silly how restless and distracted will their pursuits still be What Trifles and Vanities will their care be expended upon And what a nothing will be the purchase of all their Labour We pitty the Innocence of a poor Child that takes such Pains to gather a Rush and Sweats in the pursuit of a silly Butter-Flie and is it not much greater pitty to see a comely Youth of hopeful parts and very promising capacities waste his time and strength in the pursuit of things that are every whit as Vain only not half so Innocent Things that not only Answer not his Pains but sadly illude them put him only upon the Rack of new acquists and pursuits instead of compensating his past Labours Is it not a Melancholy sight to behold Beauty and Parts a blooming Vigour and Strength and a Person worthy of the care of Angels to prosecute with so much earnestness that which satisfieth not to court Vanities which still flie from him and turn Idolater to an empty Cloud wearying himself in hunting for satisfaction in the wrong place and pursuing that which repay's him with continual disappointment Oh! what great pitty is it that such Industry should not be better directed and better rewarded Will you think how lamentably hazardous the condition of that Youth is that is setting out into a wide and hazardous World without the conduct of Religion

THE IMPORTANCE OF RELIGION TO Young Persons Represented in a SERMON Preached at the Funeral of Sir Thomas Vinor Baronet in St. Hellens Church London May the 3d. 1683. By Hen. Hesketh Vicar of St. Hellens and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty LONDON Printed by H. Hills Jun. for Henry Bonwicke at the Red-Lyon in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1683. To the Honoured Sir John Lawrence Knight and Alderman of London Honoured Sir I here Present you with what you were pleased to call for at my hands a Copy of that Discourse that was made at your Grand-Childs Funeral which you were pleased so kindly to accept at the hearing as to desire a more leisurely perusal of it This is now the Third time that I have been called to do you Service in these sad occasions and Death hath made so many violent Inroads upon your Family in a short space I Pray God Almighty Sanctifie these sad Occurences to you and to all that relate to you and teach you to improve them to those purposes of Wisdom that he intends them If this poor Discourse may do you any Service to this purpose I shall have good cause to rejoyce What ever it is I present it to you in such a hope if you have a design to make it publick as you seem to intimate you must be pleased to stand accountable for the imperfections of it for I have no further concern for it than to have it accepted as Testimony of thankfulness for those great kindnesses you have been pleased upon all occasions to express towards Honoured Sir Your most obliged and most Humble Servant Henry Hesketh May the 8th 1683. Ecclesiastes 11.10 Therefore remove Sorrow from thy Heart and put away Evil from thy Flesh for Child-hood and Youth are Vanity WE are come together Honorable and Beloved at this time to pay our last respects to the Memory of a Young deceased Gentleman in whom Parentage and Honour Estate and Parts Beauty and Comliness Youth and Temper combined to have rendred him a great Man and had God so pleased one that might have done good service in his Generation But it is otherwise determined above and the Thread of his Life is cut off his Relations you see are willing to commit the Earthly remains of him to the Grave with that respect and those Testimonies of Honour and Kindness that the custom of this City hath made becoming Persons of his Rank and Quality And what is Incumbent now on me is to strive to Improve this sad providence to your good to render you more than formal Mourners and customary Spectators of these Funeral Solemnities There can scarce be a time in which we may promise our selves more success in our Ghostly Counsels and Advice than such as this For Death and the apprehensions of it usually render Men serious and make way for those reflections and thoughts which the Hurries of business the entertainments of sense and the gayeties of the world indispose them for and lock up their minds against the entertainment of This is the great reason why the Funerals of the Dead are usually attended with some exhortations to the Living And I think we may take good occasion to magnifie the great care and wisdom of the Church in it in advantaging such very necessary Counsels with such very fair and promising opportunities This is my present Province and the Task imposed on me at this time which that I might discharge with some service and success to you I have been desired to suit my discourse to those especially that stand upon the same Level and in the same great circumstances of Age with this Young departed Gentleman and to address to them in some such way as might be most suitable to their needs and this occasion And I have not been able to find out a place of Scripture that seems to me better to answer these purposes than these words of Solomon now read to you which are directly addressed to Young Persons as is plain in themselves and from the Verse which precedes and that which follows the Text Remove sorrow from thy Heart and put away evil from thy Flesh for Child-hood and Youth are Vanity In which words without spending time in any further recommending the Parentage Honour Estate Parts Beauty or Comliness of the Person Deceased there are two things I shall observe to you 1. An Exhortation and advice in these words Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart and put away evil from thy Flesh 2. An argument or reason to inforce the compliance with it in these for Child-hood and Youth are Vanity 1. The first of these I intend no further to insist upon than only to give you the true sense and meaning of it for the second is that I chiefly purpose to make the Subject of the following discourse The advice seems to consist of three parts remove Sorrow from thy heart and put away Evil from thy Flesh but they are either of the same Import and only doubled like Pharaohs Dream to make the deeper Impression or one is added as an Exegesis and Explication of the other or both are expressed to make the sense of them fully comprehensive of what the Wise Man intended by them The thing plainly intended in them is true Religion and that practice or great instance of it which is most suitable and becoming Youth and the expressions are common Periphrases of both these in the Scriptures For by sorrow here is meant any manner of sin any instance of wickedness by which Men bring evil and sorrow upon themselves the Effect here being put for the Cause as by a Metonymy very common in Scripture it is in other places Most of the Translations that I have seen instead of sorrow read anger Put away anger from thy heart by which they either mean all those irregular sensual Passions to which Youth is so very subject of which anger is the most raging and impetuous and that which commonly betrays and hurries them without great care into many evils and Mischiefs or they mean indifferently any Sin or Vice by which they anger and provoke God and fall under his displeasure and the sad Effects of it And putting away evil from the Flesh is a common expression in Scripture in which the Flesh is almost always used in an ill sense for the depraved part in man and for all those sensual Lusts and Inclinations seated in it that hurry and betray Inconsiderate men into sin and in the irregular indulgence of which most of the prohibited instances of vice consist So that putting away evil from the flesh must signifie what the Apostle means by cleansing our selves from all filthiness of the flesh 2 Cor. 7.1 i. e. freeing our selves from the power of all fleshly Lusts and as our Church in her Catechism very well expresseth it and to the Capacity of those that I am now speaking chiefly unto the keeping our Bodies in Temperance Soberness and Chastity In short by sorrow in the