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A66469	A young man's fancy to the rising generation being a sermon preached upon the death, and at the desire of John Tappin of Boston, who deceased at Fairfield the 10th of October 1672, being in the nineteenth year of his age / by Samuel Wakeman ...	Wakeman, Samuel, 1635-1692.	1673 (1673)	Wing W279; ESTC R18408	44,372	48

the last Verse of that Chapter the latter in the fi●st Verse of this in the words of the Text Both which he is backing wi●h the former Argument the brevi●y of Life and the certainty of approaching Death The first Inference or Duty exhorted to in the last Verse of the former Chapter is Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart and put away evil from thy fl●sh so I do may the young man think while I rejoyce in my youth and my heart chears me while I walk in the wayes of my hea●t and in the sight of mine eyes if this be not to remove sorrow from my h●art and put away evil from my flesh what is Such indeed is the opinion of the flesh touching sensual pleasures but sure the judgement of the Spirit of God is quite contrary hereunto and it is quite another thing that is here intended viz. the putting away sorrow by the putting away sin the removing of the Effect the evil of afflict●on and suffering by removing the Cause the evil of concupiscence and inordinate aff●ct●●n according to the truth of that which he is elswhere speaking Prov 14.13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful and the end of that mirth is heaviness A holy heart and a merry heart go together and a sinful heart and a sorrowful heart cannot will not be long asunder be that puts not away the evil of sin from his flesh cannot long put away the evil of smart and suffering whatever vain sensual men may imagine the winding up will prove that of the Wise-man true Prov. 11.29 As righteousness tendeth to life so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death and the Reason backing it is bottomed upon the same main Argument the flittingness brevity and uncertainty of Life even in the young and lusty for Childhood and Youth is vanity i.e. are fading passing uncertain soon spent Young men may bear and behave themselves as if imagining their hot blood lusty bodies activity beauty would last alwayes and their youthful pleasures never be at an end but Childhood and Youth are vanity Death may not wait till they be gray-headed or however the earliest Morning hastens apace to Noon and then to Night The second Inference or Duty exhorted to you have in the words of the Text Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth As in the former he was calling off from sin vanity the empty pursuance of the Creature so in this he is calling to and putting upon the remembrance of the Creator q.d. relinquish your vanities and your sensual pleasures and contentments which will be bitterness in the latter end and set your hearts seriously God-ward turn your thoughts toward the minding him And this Exhortation of young men to the now remembring of their Creator is urged upon them by the same main Argument still The flittingness and vanity of Life and the approaching certainty and the evil and dark dayes of old Age and Death While the evil dayes come not c. as in this and the following Verses q.d. old Age and Death are hastening upon you and will certainly and soon overtake you It is the former part of the Verse Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth that I shall insist upon taking no further notice of the latter but as it may be an Argument to enforce this And here because I study expedition and the Explication will necessarily take up some room and time as also that the Reason of the duty here required of us is couched in the expressions wherein it is commended to us We shall first lay down the Conclusion or Point of Doctrine from the words and then open it to you and fetch the Reasons out of its own bowels The Observation then according to the terms of the Text which we shall after more fully unfold is this Doct. That it is every mans Duty every young mans Duty now in the dayes of his youth to Remember his Creator Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth It is every mans duty to remember God it is every young mans duty to do it now in the dayes of his youth For the clearing up of the Doctrine and making way for the Application and Improvement of it we have three things to handle and unfold 1. What this Remembring our Creator he duty which the Text and Doctrine calls for is importing 2. The Reasons of our so doing which the term of Creator is implying 3. Why the Younger may not put it off but it must be now done now in the dayes of their youth I. What this remembring God remembring our Creator is importing Remembring commonly in Scripture acceptation is not strictly taken for the simple act of memory the meer retaining a thing in our heads nor is so here to be taken for any one simple act of the Soul nor yet divers and continued acts of one and the same Faculty but it is taken for the compleat entire motion of the whole Soul the whole man towards God It is the common saying of Divines That words of knowledge of sense in Scripture imply affection and action cogitation and practice take in both the head and heart include the whole Soul by one word of knowing remembring and the like is included the compleat entire motion of the whole Soul the whole man towards God Such is the combination and concatenation of all the Faculties of the Soul as of Links in a Chain that draw one and draw all break one and break all upon this account any one act or the act of any one single Faculty as knowing remembring c. is usually in Scripture put for the compleat entire motion of the whole Soul The term of our remembring God so of his remembring us is used ordinarily not strictly but in such a latitude as we have been speaking if you consult Neh. 4.14 Judg. 8.34 Lev. 26.42 Luke 23.42 and a number of Texts more that might be named and recited but I fear to be tedious you will finde the sense of the phrase to run according to the breadth which we have been saying In a word we then remember God not when we barely think of him but when as such we affectionately and practically acknowledge him when we really own and bear our selves toward him as our Creator in sum when the whole entir● motion of the whole Soul is Godward Thus briefly and in general But because the burthen of the Duty of the Text hangs upon this word Remember we shall yet a little further unfold it and shew you yet somewhat more fully distinctly and particularly what the remembring God is implying and inferring briefly 1. Remembring God is implying and inferring converting turning unto God Psal 22.27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord All men naturally are forgetting God and turning from him and men then remember God when they convert and turn unto him men naturally too earnestly remember the Creature and

Venice-glasses not those that are first made are first broke but those that are first knockt Death is often sudden and unexpected in its approaches the evil day is very nigh sometimes when men are putting it furthest off The fool in the Gospel-Parable lessons us how prone we are to cast up our Accounts for many years when it may be we have not one night to live The notion of Death is too apt to look to all men especially to young men like Ezekiel's Vision Chap. 42.27 The Vision that he seeth it for many dayes and he prophecieth of times that are afar off Young men look it may be on the gray-headed as well on their way to the Grave and haply think it is time for old men to think of dying but from themselves they put it at a great distance but most true it is that Senibus Mors in januis adolescentibus in insidiis Death is oftentimes as near the young mans back as it is the old mans face even while he saith of Death as the unfaithful Servant in the Gospel of his Lord He delayeth his coming it cometh in a day when he looketh not for it and in an hour when he is not aware of and calleth him off and sendeth him unprepared as he is to the Land of Darkness whence there is no redemption O think man hath not death surprized many a poor unprovided sinner that put the evil day far off as confidently and upon as good grounds as thy self Hath nor Death prevented many a careless inconsiderate Loyterer who looked as little for his coming as thou doest and whose purposes for the future were as hopeful as thine now are Hast thou not followed ma●y a one to the Grave that had as probable Arguments for a longer ●●●e as any thou canst have Continual experience tells thee it is not thy Youth or Health and Strength that can save thee or so much as a little while Reprieve the Arrest of Death how dost thou dare then to put off one day when thou knowest not but it may be thy putting by for ever Do but suppose a dreadful yet probable supposition while thou art putting off and delaying a little and yet a little longer Death should step in and prevent thee O me-thinks this Argument if nothing else will should effectually deterre thee from loytering and throughly awaken thee to a now remembring thy Creator I have said what I shall say upon this Text beseeching you that it may be thought upon and beseeching God to give his blessing But I have another Subject that I must crave a few minutes time and a grain or two of patience more to say something of and that is the Young man lately deceased at whose Request and as whose Bequest you have had this Sermon and it is not the Commendation of the dead that is the thing intended he needs it not but the Instruction of the living As his Death in the time and manner of it was a real Sermon upon the Text of which we have been speaking so in other respect was his Life also in some good degree and I have two sayings to young men especially upon this Subject 1. In some things observable in him as to his Life he was a Patern for your Imitation 2. In some things observable about him as to his Death he was an Example for your Admonition First In some things observable in him as to his Life he was a Patern for your Imitation but to intimate some few things of special remark 1. He was a young man of an innocent Conversation of a civil sober Behaviour he was not of a debauched dissolute life nor did he run with others to that excess of riot which with sad hearts we see many young men do his Conversation was not spotted with such marks of deboistness as are too visible upon too many of his Age. Now though Civility Sobriety Morality are not Grace yet they are Jewels of price that have an amiableness and loveliness both in the eyes of God and good men it is said of the young man in the Gospel-story in Mark 10.21 that when Christ had heard from him what he had done how he had lived that he was a civil sober moral man though evident it is by the story that he was a stranger to the power of godliness that Jesus beholding him loved him Not but that I am perswaded better things of the young m●● of whom we are speaking and things that have accompanied salvation though I thus speak but to shew you that a meer Civil Sober Moral man is otherwise by God looked upon then others are that are Scandalous and Profane Christ hath a common love even to the better sort of ungodly men mo●e then to the worst a civil sober outwardly conform●ble life hath its account with God not that I would have you rest here I hope his Example led you h●gher 2. He was a young man of a serious Spirit he had som● 〈◊〉 weight with him and worth in him It is said of him by th●● 〈◊〉 ●he Family where he formerly sojourned amongst us for some time 〈◊〉 now lately died and took his leave of this world That they never h●●●d a vain misbecoming word come out of his mouth and his Conversation was according he was not vainly given nor spent his time in Drinking Gaming Company-keeping as many do but was much in Reading and took delight when his other business afforded him any leisure to be amongst his Books and Papers and very ready he was upon occasion for the help of others upon such accounts Alas a young man of a serious Spirit that is of some weight and worth that is something besides meer froth and vanity that mindes something worthy a man is too rare a sight amongst us Oh the exceeding vanity of the younger sort and too many of the elder too Alas what a meer Bubble of Vanity wrapped up in a bundle of fine Clothes is many a young Man many a Maid their clothing may be costly but their hearts their mindes as the Wise-man speaks Prov. 10.20 are little worth O how empty are they of all that is of worth that good is but running over with meer vanity and superfluity of naughtiness as the Apostle speaks Jam. 1.21 Mens mindes and mouthes run over with very froth and vanity scarce a serious thought in the one or a sober savoury word in the other not a Bible or a good Book in hand the week long it may be you had a better Example in him then this comes to 3. This young man as is credibly testified of him was a dutifull Childe to his Parents he was inured to bear the yoke from his youth He could almost say as the Son in the Parable to his Father Luke 15.29 Neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment Never but once as himself was saying to an intimate Friend of his not long before his death was he unseasonably absent from his Fathers