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A97294	Some prison meditations and directions on several subjects viz. on [brace] the fall of man, the sufferings of Christ, repentance and faith, reproof and counsel, the holy Scriptures, prayer, love to mankind, sincerity, the vanity of the world, the benefit of affliction, heaven and hell / by Samuel Young, minister of the Gospel.	Trepidantium Malleus.	1684 (1684)	Wing Y88A; ESTC R43962	59,844	144

into Misery So though Christs Righteousness be imputed to us yet we are not therefore Saviours or Mediators We are often commanded to be sanctifyed but not to be Justified for Justification is Gods own work without us The Grace of Christ that is the efficient cause of our Sanctification and is the essential cause the matter and form of our Justification And therefore when God is said to reward men according to their works it shews the order of following not the Cause Vno Scripturae exemplo ista quaestio elucescit Calv. Inst lib. 3. cap. 19. saith Calvin One example in Scripture shall make it clear Gen. 15.5 The Promise made to Abram in Uncircumcision in Gen. 22.16 17. is there made again on his Offering up of Isaac By my self have I sworn because thou hast done this thing I will multiply thy Seed as the Stars of the Heavens Now his Obedience was not the Cause of that blessing for Abraham had it before but was an occasion of renewing it at that time God rewarded his good works and so will ours with Blessings promised before the good works were done Heaven is an Inheritance of Children Obj. If good works justifie not what need is there to press after them Take Luthers answer This is just as if we should say Money Justifies not therefore throw it away our Hands justifie us not therefore cut them off Luthers Comment on the Epist Gala. We must attribute saith he to every thing its proper Work and Office A Woman may not wear a Mans Apparel nor a Man a Womans The Sun shineth by day and the Moon by night So he Gal. 4.7 Wherefore thou art no more a Servant but a Son and if a Son then an Heir of God by Christ An Heir is not Agent but Patient hath all by Birth not by Labour no more than to be born The Promise being of Grace is sure to all the seed It was not sure to Adam he had his Treasure in his own hand and so lost it but we have ours in the hand of Christ Justification and Sanctification are not separated though they be distinguished He that is justified will be holy Tit. 2.14 and zealous of good works The Objection that we are enemies to good works is in vain King Henry the Eighth in his Book against Luther de Septem Sacramentis for which Book the Pope gave him the Title of Defender of the Faith chargeth our Reformers with pleading for all manner of Sins from this Doctrine but how true the world now knows If any of the Church of England are offended I beseech them to read the Homilies about these matters and Bishop Downhams large Folio of Justification and they will find my opinion not different from the old Protestants thô I confess different from the Opinion of some of the late new Protestants both Conformists and Non-conformists 5. If you are through Christ related unto God give Christ the Glory and take to your selves the comfort of this relation We are said to be of his Flesh and Bone Eph. 5.31 32. to be married to Christ Now if the Husband be beyond Sea thousands of miles from the Wife yet they are one So is God and a Believer Joh. 17.21 though God be in Heaven and he upon the earth Remember Christians what Christ hath done for you He hath paid your debts that you could never do If a woman were in debt Thousands of Pounds and by working hard every day should pay Six-pence now and then yet she could never all her life time pay the Sum But if a Rich Man come and pay down the whole and take the woman to wife he doth that in a day which she could never have done in her life time Christ hath done that in a little time that we had been doing of to eternity He satisfied Divine Justice The Dignity of the person makes the Sufferings of such great value Give God the glory that you hear of Christ that you believe in him pity and pray for the poor Jews whose eyes are not yet opened They have not been a Church nor Nation for Sixteen Hundred years past When they were under the Babylonish Captivity it was but Seventy years and they had Prophets to Comfort them but now none comes from God to them which Consideration hath converted some of them Schamaria and Jacob two great Jews by Luther I know no Consideration in my little Converse with them that so convinceth them that they have not been the Church of God for so long time Eleazer Bargisha a Converted Jew in his vain hopes of the Jewish Messiah hath discovered many of their vain Dreams and Dr. Addison in his Hist of the Jews Stir up thine Affections O Christian let thy Heart burn within thee in the Consideration of the Excellencies of Christ Muse a little on these following Scriptures Heb. 1.2 God hath spoken to us by his Son whom he appointed Heir of all things Great Heirs are desired in Marriage will not this do Once again Colos 2.3 In him are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge We delight in men of Wisdom though where they know one thing they are ignorant of many Now Christ is the Wisdom of God will not this do I will try once more and a threefold Cord is not soon broken Rev. 19.12 His eyes were as a flame of fire and on his Head were many Crowns and he hath a name given that no man knoweth but himself In him is wonderful Majesty Dignity and Excellencies incomprehensible by Creatures Cant. 2.5 This is my Beloved may a Believer say I am sick of Love God takes more kindly our Love to Christ than he doth the Love of Angels they see him in his Glory and cannot but love him but we meet with many Oppositions and Temptations For the Perswasion of the Love of Christ to our Souls we should press after it thô as our English Divines of the Synod of Dort say Suf. Brit. that which many find by sad Experience this Satisfaction in a Christian is sometimes vivida sometimes languida and sometimes as nulla sometimes lively sometimes weak and sometimes even as none Remember all the Saints in Heaven and Earth are Redeemed by Christ Col. 1.20 And having made Peace through the Blood of his Cross by him to Reconcile all things to himself by him whether they be things in Earth or things in Heaven All the Saints that went to Glory before our Lord came in the flesh were bought by him As a man may be said to buy that which he hath not yet paid for Lands Goods Cloaths whilst there is a Satisfactory Promise made and Security given So Christ bought them in the Covenant between the Father and him that he should in the fulness of time shed his blood for them When Christ came into the World the way to come to him was Repentance and Faith the Apostles preached it and of these in the next Chapter CHAP.

if you reprove not you are the cause of their damnation I have read in the dreadful Tragedy of the destruction of the English by the Dutch at Amboyna that one Dunchin who had falsely accused them one day passing by the Pit where sixteen of them were cast in that he fell on it raging and was distracted considering there lay so many men he had ruined How many go into Eternity whose Souls you have betrayed into the Infernal Pit by your sinful discourse or by your sinful silence Stop the mouth of the Swearer and Blasphemer as much as you can James 3.4 5 6. Behold also the Ships which though they be so great and are driven with fierce winds yet are they turned about with a very small Helm whithersoever the Governour listeth Even so the Tongue is a little member and boasteth great things Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth The tongue is a fire a world of iniquity And it is set on fire of Hell I wish you Moses's Blessing Deut. 33.18 19. Rejoice Zebulon in thy going out Suck of the abundance of the Seas and hid treasures in the Sands Have you been as those Mariners Jon. 1.15.16 When Seas have raged and ceased made Vows to the Lord Keep your Vows Instruct poor Pagans in the way to God Consider the worth of your Souls and theirs The better your Cargo is the more you fear Ship-wrack O man thou art richly laden that Vessel thy Body carryes a Soul of greater value than all the Treasures upon earth Let it never be said of it what was said of that Ship and men in it Acts 27.20 That all hope of being saved was taken away S. Y. THE PREFACE ALcinous the Platonist tells us That Plato thought that the work of a Philosopher consisted in three things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which I think taking the liberty the Poet speaks of Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus Interpres Herat. de Art Poet. I may t●u● English In thinking well in doing well and in speaking well What their Philosophy which was much of their Natural Religion taught them doth Christianity which is our supernatural Religion teach us but in a different way and in a fuller manner The design of the following discourse is to help in this work There are many things for Meditation of God his Word c. many practical Directions for a holy useful life several helps to speak to God and for God I know dangerous it is for a man in my circumstances to be a Writer But I care not if my counsel be accepted what becomes of my person I am perswading the World to play the Christian to play the Man As Solomon brings in Wisdom speaking so do I Unto you O men do I call and my voice is unto the Sons of men Are you men learn to act according to the excellency and dignity of your natures Let me beseech those into whose hands this Book may come if they have given up themselves to the Immoralities of the Age Drunkenness Adultery Swearing Oppression c. that have all vices that may make their lives a full Systeme of wickedness Vices the nanning of which may seem to corrupt the Air we breathe in Vices that need little more to their confutation than to be thought on I say let me perswade you to consider Is Sin an evil thing Grace a desirable thing Is God and your Souls to be minded above all things or not If not why do you say they are If they are why do you not live as those that thus believe I do not despair but that some who are guilty of the unpresidented Sins of the times Sins of the first Edition if they would consider they may yet learn to walk soberly righteously and godly in this present World I know such are ready to say Object Religion is abused to very bad purposes by some Answ I Answer And used to very good purposes by others Is Rhetorick to be despised because by it some bad men learn to colour a bad cause as well as some good men to flourish a good cause Is Logick to be despised because some learn to dispute Sophistically as well as others Topically Is the light of the Sun to be despised because one steals by it as another works in his Calling How many men had lived as Incarnate Devils that now live as Terrestrial Angels had not Religion healed their Natures and regulated their Lives Remember Sin is a great part of the misery and punishment of these men They are out God his Grace and Love and content to be so they serve the Devil and Sin and are glad of the work The Lord bring in such as their Elder Brother in the Gospel that was healed of his distraction and was placed in his right mind at the Feet of Jesus SOME Prison Meditations AND DIRECTIONS ON Several Subjects CHAP. I. Of the Fall of Man MEDITATIONS THat the finding out of our Disease is necessary in order to a Cure is not more true of the Natural Distempers of our Bodies than of the Spiritual Distempers of our Souls The Apostle mentions the Fall of man at large to the Romans to make way for the discovery of the Necessary and Excellency of a Saviour Ron 5. In the Fall of man I shall consider that we all were in the First Man as in Heb. 7.9.10 Levi is said to pay Tithes to Melchisedeck as he was in the loyns of his Father Abraham So we may be said to eat Forbidden Fruit as we were in the loyns of our Father Adam We were in him as a Nation in their King Adam was our Repre●●e●●ative If he had stood we had had the benesit of his obedience though he not we obeyed So he disobeying we are brought under the Curse though he and not we offended It is in vain in war if Subjects be taken to say our King proclaimed and made the War not we we never consented to it If the Posterity of a Traitor be disinherited it is in vain for them to plead Our Father not we conspired the death of the Prince we were not then born Besides the nature of man by the Fall was corrupt and a clean thing cannot come out of an unclean Job 14.4 It is true indeed what God said by Ezekiel The Children shall not bear the Iniquity of the Father Ezek. 19.20 If the Father sin alone it is so but this is not our Case for we find our Principles and so Practices corrupted Adam was but one man personally but he was all men potentially and originally I shall in order consider 1. What we were before the Fall 2. What Sin we were guilty of in the Fall 3. What misery we brought on our selves after the Fall I may sometimes name Adam onely but it must be thus understood that we all were He. 1. What Adam was before he fell Adam and Eve Gen. 5.2 are both called Adam Male and Female created he