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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57574	Early religion, or, The way for a young man to remember his Creator proposed in a sermon preach'd upon the death of Mr. Robert Linager, a young gentleman, who left this world, Octob. 26, 1682, with an account of some passages of his life and death / by T. Rogers.	Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728.; Veel, Edward, 1632?-1708.	1683 (1683)	Wing R1849; ESTC R27563	39,498	63

early Fruit If we do not thus what Plea shall we make at his Bar and how shall we meet our Parents and our holy Friends in the day of Judgment The Time is coming when Riches and Honour Health and Beauty Credit and Reputation among Men will be of no value nor will Gold and Silver the Idols of this be currant in the next World We should not therefore be like those young People that are only serious in the House of Mourning or when they see their Friends carried to the Grave but in the next vain Company suffer the Impressions of their Mortality to wear off again We must be always sober in our Conversation as not knowing when we our selves shall be gone only this we may know that as the Years we have already lived are soon past so will those that are to come with the same swift Motion pass away The longest Life here on Earth is but as a Moment if compar'd with the future Eternity 'T is as a flash of Lightning to the whole Element of Fire just seen and then vanisht And can it after all this be too soon to serve our Creator with our best Affections to implore his Pardon to call on his Name when ere long there will be no more use of Prayer no more the Tenders of Sal●ation no more Time Sixthly If we would Remember our Creator now in the Days of our Youth Let us think with our selves how dreadful our Case would be should we be surprized by Death before we had done this If we cannot perform this Work now when our earthly House is in good Repair how shall we do it when the Foundations and the Building both will be destroyed and it may be struck to the Ground on a sudden as with a Clap of Thunder If we find our selves Indisposed for our ordinary Business with an aking Head or Tooth do we think to mind our Salvation when every Part of our Bodies shall be rackt with the most violent and painful Agonies and when we shall have no Intervals of Ease but be rudely treated by the Diseases that come before to clear the way for the King of Terrors Or shall we stay till the Blow be given or the Season past It may be we think there is no Danger or that we shall have time enough hereafter but our Disease is not the less for our Insensibility and to conceit our selves Well when in the Judgment of God and his Word we are much out of Order is the worst Symptom of our approaching Death What better would it be for a sick Man to fall into a Slumber and to dream of Health when he is given over as hopeless and not for this World any longer What better would he be to think his Candle will last for many Hours when it is just falling into the Socket and yeilds but a little dying Blaze which he through Mistake fancies a true lasting Flame What better would a Prisoner be to dream in the Night of Freedom and a Pardon when he sees the Officer entring in the Morning to carry him away to Execution And shall we be in a better State if we put off our Creator with Delays till Death enter into the Windows and deprive us of our Light and siezing on us by a Warrant from God hale us away to the Prison of the Grave and to the glorious awful Tribunal whether we will or not In what Mountains shall we seek a Refuge if we make no Provision for our selves till the Floods come and the weak Pillars whereon we now lean be wash'd away How many young Men are now awake and that for ever in the Flames of Hell that never would open their Eyes till they came thither That were taken away living and in the Wrath of God Ps 58.9 before their Pots could feell the Thorns before they had any real Sense of their near Danger And as the Case of that Person is very sad that when he has been newly rack'd and while he is yet sore and pained is to be carried again to the Torture So is theirs that are twice to dye whose Souls go trembling from the Body to more intolerable Pains that go from the first to the second from a Temporal to an Eternal Death How many are now in the Regions of perpetual Storms that thought because their Sun once shin'd they should always have good Weather and a clear Day For God's Sake then and for our own let us be Religious betimes and not suffer our selves to be bound with Cords in the Houses of our Enemies with more Sins lest we lose our Strength and God depart from us when we think like Sampson in the Hands of the Philistins Judg. 16.20 to rise and go abroad with the same Freedom that we did at other times The Lamp of our Life may be drown'd with too much Moisture or when we think all is calm be blown out with a sudden Blast or a stormy Wind and leave us in the Dark and when it has once expired there will be no Supplies of Oyl to make it burn again And then like the blinded Youth of Sodom Gen. 19.11 we shall reel to and fro and not find a Door of Hope till we feel the sealding Drops of Vengeance that will by degrees swell into a Flood and carry us away to the great Lake of Fire This will be the Consequent of our vain Delays and oh how dreadful will it be when instead of the Bosom of Abraham we shall find our selves in the cold Arms of Despair and instead of the Joys of Heaven have in our guilty Souls Mark 9.44 the Worm that never dyes If Men break in the World they may by the kind Assistance of their Friends and Benefactors be set up again If they be Imprisoned they may through the Mediation of the same be releas'd but what shall become of those that have no Friends that have nothing wherewith to pay their Debts and must languish and pine away in a tedious Bondage never to be eased of their Sorrows never to be released And such and more dreadful will be the State of those young Men that are surpriz'd in the moment of their Wickedness and laid in the Chains of Hell unawares Dare we then forget our Creator now when whole Troops of so great Calamities are upon the March against us and we know not when their Leader that rides upon the pale Horse Rev. 6.8 will give the Word and command them to fall upon us If we now disregard the Checks of our own Consciences they will hereafter challenge us to give them Satisfaction and be revenged on us for all the Affronts that we have put upon them Sleep on we may but it will be very sad if we awake not before the Decree for our Execution be gone forth and before the killing Sword is at our Breasts If we will take no Care even when our Feet stand in slippery Places Psal 73.18 we may

that attended on his Weakness to read the Scripture to him when he could not reach it with his own Hand he desired others to administer to him that Bread of Life He was much in Prayer in the midst of his restless Nights and strong Pains resolving as long as he could to lift up those Eyes to Heaven which he believed would shortly be closed by Death and to spend that Breath in Desires after Grace which was every Moment ready to be stop'd Thus while his Body was detained on his Bed by various Pains his Soul was swiftly moving towards its proper Center And though by the Violence of his Disease he was somewhat stupified for a little while before he died yet while his Sences continued free in their Exercise he did with the bitter Cryes of a Penitent bewail his Sins expressing a great Hatred of them and a holy Indignation against himself Sometimes when he was told of Comfort he would mournfully say You know not what I feel My Sins ly very heavy on me my Sickness is not all nor is the Anguish of my Body so great as the Anguish of my Soul God gave him a very sensible tender Conscience which though it be grievous for a while yet is a great Mercy if compared with the great Judgment of an hard unmelting Heart which many Sinners both young and old are punish'd with so that even when they are on the Rack they do not confess their Sins nor seek after God He was greatly troubled And thus a loving Physician searches to the bottom of the Sore and puts his Patient especially when the Wounds are of a long Continuance to more then ordinary Pain that he may perform a great Cure When a Cloud of Despair seem'd to obscure his Comfort being told of the Pity and the Love of Christ to the greatest Sinners the Thoughts of his Saviour revived his dying Hopes and made him willing to pass through Darkness to Light through Pain to Rest saying I desire the Blood of Christ to cure all my internal Maladies And at another time said he desired him above all things The Night before his last he lay very Unquiet expressing a great sense of Trouble with many Sighs and Groans his Nurse rightly guessing that these were the Signs of something greatly afflictive to him advised him to ease his Mind which he immediately after did to him under whose Care he was with a serious Profession of Sorrow for the Sins he then Confessed and which he then found to be a great Burthen on his Conscience though they had been Committed long before The day before desiring the Prayers of the same Person and being ask'd what he would have begg'd of God for him He answer'd That God would shew his great Mercy on him in pardoning his Sins and healing his Soul and removing his spiritual Maladies owning with a due Sorrow his Sins of Omission and Commission and those which he had committed against the holy Spirit that would have reclaimed him from them He called to mind several suitable places of Scripture even beyond Expectation and very pertinently applyed them to the Necessities of his own Case which argued that he was no Stranger to that Rule which can more then all others teach a young Man best how to cleanse his Waies and to Remember God and at last said that he would be very willing to dye if he might have a Sense of the Mercies of Christ and of Pardon Which we have good ground to hope he did not come short of These were the Speeches and this the Behaviour of this dying young Man And lest any may be troubled to think that after so many Prayers and serious Endeavours as he used he should have so many Doubts and Fears about his Title to Forgiveness and a happy State I will add this viz. That it is greatly to be Considered that Satan whom the Scripture calls a Lyon when the Evening of Time is come to any Soul marches out of his Den and is then more full of Rage and Violence then he was before and as dying Bees or Serpents thrust out their Stings with greater vehemence so does he use the greater Force when he knows his time is but short He troubles the Souls of good People with dark and mournful Apprehensions of God and their own Condition when he sees them just at the Door of Heaven at which when they once enter his Spite is over and he can do no more Many Christians he thus Assaults that are of a long standing in the Vineyard and therefore it is not to be wondered if he thus tost to and fro this young Man who was but as a tender Plant. He had indeed a laborious Conflict and an hard Passage but we may well hope that it was but to him as a dark Night before a clear Day and that his Troubles here were but as the sharp Sauce the better to prepare his Appetite for the sweeter Tast of Happiness Many a time the Sun that sets in a Cloud does arise in Glory and many a Ship at last arrives to a quiet Harbour that met with Waves and Storms and high Winds all the way thither Let us also by this Example be perswaded to Remember our Creator now in the Days of our Youth while the evil Days come not For we see 't is he alone that can speak Peace and that to him alone we must go at last for Comfort who can heal our wounded Spirits and bear us up when if we should look to all our Friends they can only bewail our sad Case but not remove our Sorrows If we do this Mal. 3.16 17. he will write our Names in his Book of Remembrance and in that day when he makes up his Jewels he will spare us as a Man spareth his own Son that serveth him Ps 33.26 And when our Heart and our Flesh fails he will be the Strength of our Heart and our Portion for ever We may now see that all the Delights and Pleasures of the World are of no value and but miserable Comforters in the time of spiritual Distress from the sense of Sin and Guilt they will yield us then no Solace no peaceable Thoughts no Refreshment but our God is worthy to be thought upon who can by his Grace and Favour uphold and Bless the departing Soul To you that were the Acquaintance of the Deceas'd I shall only say this now you have stronger Engagements upon you to Remember your Creator then you had before for he has by the death of your Companion sent you a near and a loud Warning to prepare for your own He had but a little if any Sickness at all before that which proved his last Flatter not then your selves with the too great Hopes of long Life because of your present Health and Strength For though your earthly Tabernacles have not been undermin'd with many Infirmities and Diseases yet you know not but the first Storm that comes may shatter them