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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

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

representing of them 3. And now I proceed to put a Period to this discourse in some practical deductions and inferences from it which is the third and last thing I proposed to perform and three I shall only mention at present 1. First it may let us see how extreamly imprudent those young Persons are that think discourses of this Nature no way proper or needful for them and at what mighty and dangerous rates all such Persons do Act that regard not Religion in their Youth nor take care to govern their lives by the rules and measures of it It is to you that I have been speaking all this while and it is you that this occasion chiefly concerns for Gods sake consider well with your selves whether Religion be not as needful for you as others and whether if God should call for you out of this World as it is more than possible that he may you can hope to be saved without the aids of it Be perswaded therefore I beseech you to take it along with you and to hallow your Youth with a sense and care of it Do not think Religion an Enemy to your mirth and pleasure and delight in this World it is the best expedient to these and the only way to render them pure and real It is no Sad or Melancholy thing nor abridgeth you of any thing that is for your true happiness You may sing rejoyce and be merry God envies you nothing but sin which spoils your joys dasheth your mirth and must sooner or later be sadly accounted for Religion will make you truly cheerful preserve the comfort and delight of your own minds entitle you to Gods good care and blessing in the following course of your Lives it will fit you to live happily and to die comfortably and render you both in life and death certainly blessed 2. This will shew us how mighty careful all Parents and Guardians of Youth ought to be to season them with Religion instil a sense and knowledg of the Principles of it into them betimes and train them up in the ways of it This will be a double blessing to them and the highest instance of love and kindness and a care of them that we can give Nature obligeth us to take care of their outward wellfare and both Nature and Religion require us to take care of their Spiritual and it will be a sad account we shall make at the last Day of our failure herein when their miscarriages shall be charged upon us and their Blood be required at our hands It is our own comfort and gain that calls upon us in this as well as theirs and if we expect to have them comforts and blessings to us while they live or to part with them with any comfort when they are taken from us we should be sure to do all we can for them in this great instance 3. And lastly that all may have some gain by this discourse it may shew us of what mighty concern Religion is to us all and upon what great reasons all of us are obliged to have a due regard and care of it The same reasons of this Text that hold with respect to young Men hold equally with respect to all Men for both middle-Middle-Age and Old Age without Religion are vanity as well as Child-hood and Youth are and as much so too subject to errors and easily imposed upon apt to Idolize the flattering vanities of this World prone to sin and all manner of wickedness and daily under the dominion of Death and incident to the stroak and seizures of it And therefore the same reasons ought to prevail with us that we have thought so very proper for them and it will be a grand shame and mighty guilt and a misery at last equal to both if while we Preach Religion to them we our selves be found regardless of it Then only can we hope with success to recommend Religion unto them when we our selves lead them and go before them in it and then may we hope for Gods blessing upon both here and by his grace and through the merits of our dear Lord to be both finally saved and happy hereafter which God of his Infinite Mercy grant us all to be for Christ Jesus sake to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all Honour and Glory and Praise now and for Evermore Amen FINIS Books Sold by Henry Bonwick at the Red-Lyon in St. Paul's Church-Yard THE Righteous Mans Portion a Sermon at the Funeral of the Noble and Renowned Gentleman Henry St. John Esq who was unfortunately killed by the Tories on the 9th of September 1679 together with a short Character of his Life and way and manner of his Death By Laur. Power M. A. sometimes Student in Trinity Colledg now Prebend and Rector of Tandrogee c. The Constant Communicant a Diatribe proving that constancy in receiving the Lords Supper is the indispensable Duty of every Christian The Second Edition to which is added a Sermon Preached at the Anniversary meeting of the Sons of Clergy-Men at St. Mary Le Bow on the 7th of December 1682. By Ar. Bury D. D. Rector of Exon. Coll. Oxon.