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death_n	age_n	time_n	year_n	5,388	5	4.9453	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40515	Select sermons preached upon Sundry occasions by John Frost ... ; now newly published together with two positions for explication and confirmation of these questions, I. Tota Christi justitia credentibus imputatur, 2, Fides justificat sub ratione instrumenti.	Frost, John, 1626?-1656.	1657 (1657)	Wing F2246; ESTC R31718	315,416	365

to fight the good fight of faith when thy strength and activity fails thee Tunc vivere incipere cùm desinendum est indè velle vitam inchoare quò pauci produxerunt as the Heathen sayes Then to begin to live when you should die and to date your life from that time to which the life but of a few is lengthned God under the Law would have no blinde or lame for sacrifice as in Deut. 25. 21. The first-born were holy to God and he required not onely the first-fruits but the first of those first-fruits Exod. 23. 19. All which was to signifie unto us that young years offered to God are a sweet-smelling savour in his nostrils 2 Consider This is most for your comfort that you may in time of age affliction and death with peace and comfort reflect upon your youth the mispence whereof does oft cause sad reflections of spirit in riper years and fills the soul with horrour and amazement Job was made to possess the iniquities of his youth his youth had the pleasure of those sins which his age now felt the smart of When guilt shall flie in the face of an awakened conscience and God for them shall exercise the soul with inward terrours as Job describes the condition of a wicked man Job 20. 11. Poenis quas sibi sceleribus adolescentiae acquisivit sayes Beza with those punishments which are the issue of the sins of youth nay though God hath upon your repentance pardoned those sins yet he may in old age chasten thee for them then you may come sadly to speak that language Rom. 6. 21. What fruit have we in those sins whereof we are now ashamed These questionless cost David many a sad tear and mournful prayer as we see in Psalm 25. 7. Remember not the sins of my youth As it is in the body licentious youth contracts those distempers which are the burden and sorrow of old age filling them with pains and aches So it is in the soul those sins which by mispence of time youth rush into may prove the sorrow and vexation of age but well-improved youth makes age comfortable 3. Consider It will be an Antidote and prevention against those sins which youth is most liable and prone to Youth having less wisedome to discover and less strength to resist and withstand temptation to sin more open to solicitation by reason of unruly passions bad examples and councel of others is most liable to sin Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way saith David Psal 119. 9. these being most subject to defilements David answers the question By taking heed thereto according to thy word and one of the precepts of that word is To redeem our time Flee youthful lusts saies Paul to Timothy 2 Tim. 2. 22. the flames of lust are most apt to enkindle by the heat of youth Cereus in vitium flecti monitoribus asper Horat. de Arte Poet. So Horace Youth is wax to every impression of vice and the Poet gives you the reason of it Quaritur Aegysthus quare sit factus adulter In promptu causa est desidiosus erat It was his idle mispence of time which blew up and fomented the sparkes of lust for Otia si tollas periêre Cupidinis arcus 4. Consider It is your gathering time and an age most capable of improvement as tender twigs most flexible as wax fit for good impressions Whereas if this time be mispent the heart grows hard through custome in sin the devil gets stronger possession the memory grows more unfaithful the understanding weaker God is provoked in a judicial way to take away your gifts and parts which you justly forfeit by a careless wrapping your talents in a napkin The Wiseman sends such sluggards to the Ant to learn wisedome 〈◊〉 provideth her meat in summer Prov. 6. 8. So soon as the sun ariseth the bee flies abroad to gather in her honey in youth our parts are active and vigorous therefore then redeem your time 5. Consider This will both sweeten and facilitate employment to you afterward The sins of youth oft make men unserviceable in riper years or if repented of and forsaken yet they are oft a reproach and discouragement to men in their employments Ephraim was ashamed because she bore the reproach of her youth Jer. 31. 19. S. Paul therefore writing to his young Timothy enformes him how to secure himself from contempt These things command and teach so Let no man despise thy youth 1 Tim. 4. 11 12. Sins of youth lay men open to reproach even then when afterwards they prove eminent serviceable in the work of God Besides mispence of youth must necessarily make our service and employment abroad more difficult for men to have their seed to seek when a harvest is expected from them whereas your laborious improvement of this time makes service easy and familiar when having laid up a treasure and stock of knowledge he is able as the Scribe instructed to the kingdome of Heaven to bring out of his treasure things new and old Matth. 13. 52. 6. Redeem this time in conformity to Christ and the best Saints Christ was at twelve years of age about his Fathers business Luk. 2. 44. Samuel in his childhood was dedicated to the Lord. 1. Sam. 1. 28. Timothy from a child redeemed his time to the study of the Scripture 2 Tim. 3. 15. And it is recorded as a just commendation of that good Prince Josiah that while yet young he began to seek after the God of David his father and at twelve years old zealously appeared against Idolatry 2 Chron. 34. 3. Let us then tread in the footsteps of these Saints and be followers of them as they were of Christ who redeemed his whole time to the service and glory of his Father II. The second rank of those who are most especially concerned in this is such men as are of greater abilities and opportunities To whom God gives ten talents he expects an improvement from them answerable to that they are intrusted with the improvement of five will not serve for him who hoth received ten To whom much is given of him much shall be required Luc. 12. 48. Mens great gifts and parts are ready to puff them up with pride S. Paul was in danger of this 2 Cor. 12. 8. and this is the abuse of the gifts of God which if rightly used and improved should not leaven us with pride but engage quicken us to more serviceableness for God and not censuring the gifts of others by which practise we either charge God for giving them no more or sacrifice sacrilegiously to our selves that we have so much when as we have nothing but what is received endeavour to improve and use our own III. The third rank such who by idleness and looseness have mispent much time formerly The Apostle Peter urgeth this 1 Pet. 4. 2 3. The later any of us have come into the vineyard the harder must we labour to