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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

What truer and apter Emblem can you give of him than of a new Ship Lanching out into the Main Ocean without Helm and Ballast or Pilot to Steer her which must needs move uncertainly and at random become the sport of every Wave and be tossed by every Wind till at last it either overset by its own vanity or strike upon some less-heeded Rock and be finally lost beyond all hope of recovery Now Religion would be remedy against all these misfortunes it would cause him to act steddily and enable him to choose wisely and repay him with that Satisfaction to which all the entertainments of sense are a trifle and a dream it would fix him upon things worthy of his care and able to compensate his Labour things becoming his Nature and sutable to so noble a Being and things that instead of wearying him in vain and empty pursuits would repay his Labour with that beyond which nothing of satisfaction can be desired 2. But then it is a stronger Argument to Religion to consider what hurtful mischievous and deadly things Youth is so very apt to pursue if Religion direct it not better It is a sight pittiful enough to behold a poor Child run eagerly over Stocks and sharp Stones and a dangerous Quagmire in the pursuit of a painted Butter-Fly as I intimated before but to see this Child following a speckled Viper and striving to graspe a shining Scorpion that will repay his first touch with a deadly Sting and dart a Poison into his Blood which is infallibly mortal this is a sight at which our hearts would tremble and our Blood presently chill it almost exceeds compassion and no pitty is big enough for it Alas this is but a faint Emblem of Youth pursuing Sensuality and Lust running upon the points of Swords and Daggers wounding it self with such deep and deadly Stabs as nothing but the Balmy Blood of the blessed Jesus can heal and plunging it self into such an abyss of guilt as nothing but the extraordinary yea miraculous love of God can save him out of It is a reflection afflictive enough to consider that sensuality and intemperance and youthful Lusts lay up matter for future diseases and pains of the Body that they poison the Blood stain the Beauty and Complexion weaken the Temper and Constitution antedate Old Age and the infirmities of it and that a vicious Youth is digging his own Grave as fast as he can But Oh! what affliction and sorrow must it needs cause to consider that these provide matter for eternal Torments that they Stab the Soul with Incurable horrour and pain incense the Wrath and Vengeance of an Almighty God and consign both Body and Soul to Hell for Ever What a wounding spectacle is it to see that fair and beautiful creature with which a Cherubin might fall in Love that is the Image and Breath of the great God and so nearly allyed to the blessed Jesus whom Angels guard with joy and the providences of Heaven wait upon which the blessed Spirit of God inspires and for whom all the Glories of Heaven are prepared I say to see this fair Creature transform it self into a Serpent and fall in Love with a foul Toad contract Friendship with Fiends and Devils and yield up it self to the hellish conduct of them take up with the foul and muddy pleasures and entertainments of Beasts and to pass from hence into everlasting burnings Who can think of this without transports of sorrow and grief Or what Eyes can choose but burst out into Tears even of Blood at so sad a prospect Yet this is really the case of that Youth which Religion doth not season and govern it runs headlong upon its own destruction it is a cheap Prey to every silly Temptation betrayed easily into every pittiful Sin and Vice whose appearance though it seem fair yet its latter end is bitterness and its paths inevitably lead down to Hell such a poor creature is contriving his own Damnation making court to Hell and inconsiderately rushing upon those courses which will certainly period in Eternal Flames 3. And yet we have another Argument beyond these and such a one as we may well hope will be the more effectual in that it meets with the common Plea and Objection that is usually made by Young persons against such discourses and that I have hinted before is a presuming upon a great deal of time and putting death far from them imagining that they may have time enough hereafter to regard Religion in and bethink themselves of attending to the precepts of it Against this fancy the 3d. sense in which Youth is said to be vanity will be a good remedy which lets them know that their time of life is no surer than others and that their presuming upon the future is equally groundless They are as subject to the stroak of Death and to the impressions of Diseases to hasten it as any others yea a great deal more especially if they be irreligious and vicious and for this daily observation as I said before is as convictive as demonstration Give me the strongest Constitution among you all or that Youth that thinks himself securest of long life let me but have leave to lead him to the paths of the Dead and beg him to observe what footsteps he sees in the ways that lead to the Chambers of the Grave and then let him tell me if he see not those of his own Complexion and Age and such as might have presumed upon a longer life as well as himself and that upon the same reasons too Or let me beg such an one to look upon this Herse and consider whose Corps we are going to Intomb and then let me desire him to say what he hath to alledg against Death and the possibility of it which this young Gentleman might not have done with as much shew of reason And yet you see all his Pleas have fail'd him Let me therefore beg you to improve this to that purpose of Wisdom that providence intends it learn every one of you to number so his days as now to apply their hearts to Wisdom and every one to entertain himself with this serious meditation that ere long the same case may be my own my turn for any thing I know may be the next and those that now carry out the remains of my Friend to the Grave may presently be called upon to do the same office for mine These thoughts by the help of Gods grace would correct the gayety of your Spirit pull down your vain crests render you serious and thoughtful and convince you that Religion is as absolutely needful for you as it either is or can be for others In these three considerations doth the strength of this Argument consist and were they but duly entertained by young Persons they could scarce fail of having effect upon them in engaging them to a present care after Religion and Holiness which is the end that I have been pursuing in