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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60161	The youngmans guide in his way to heaven: or, A cabinet of rich jewels, left and bequeathed to all young persons by the reverend Mr. John Shrenock. B.D. Who dyed in the flower of his age, lying but seven days on his death bed; during which space of time, he wrought this sermon: desiring it might be preached at his funeral, and published for the benefit of all persons both young and old. With his last prayers. Licensed and entred according to order.	Shrenock, John.	1680 (1680)	Wing S3695A; ESTC R219628	11,624	26

and the first is Pride and it is a reigning sin in youngmen young women at this day I think never more than now First Pride of heart Secondly Pride of Apparel Oh 't is rare saith one to see young men humble and watchful and to see an old man contented and cheerful Saint Bernard saith That Pride is the Rich Mans Cousin but Experience speaks it to be the young Men and young Womens Cousin God had three Sons saith one Lucifer Adam and Christ the first aspired to be like God in Power and was thrown from Heaven The second like him in knowledge and was drove out of Eden when young And the third was like God in Goodness Mercy and Humillity and by so doing obtained an everlasting inheritance Remember this young men get to be be humble and keep humble for the humble God will teach Pride is a great evil and reigneth more in young men than ever Consider and leave it least God leave you and that for ever What evils did Belshazzar Haman and Herods Pride bring them to Young Women let me intreat you in the bowels of love and out of compassion to your immortal souls that our Saviour so dearly bought with his most precious blood to leave off those patchings and paintings which are the Devils badgges O how like Monsters do too many Women in our times make themselves in their false Hair as Towers and Bulls as they call them and other ridiculous Fashions and gaudy Lascivious Attire not becoming Women professing Godliness 1. Tim. 2.7.8 saith St. Paul Likewise also the Women that they adorn themselves in modest Apparel with shamefacedness and sobriety not with broidered hair or Gold or Pearls or costly Array Oh how contrary to this Rule do the Women of our times walk Read the 16. of Ezekiel throughout and Deut. 22. ver 5. to the end of the Chapter And Isaiah 3.6 to the end Tertullians Counsel to young Men and Women in this To cloath your selves with the Silk of Piety and with the Sattin of Sanctity and with the Purple of Modesty so shall you have God for your Suiter The second sin of youth is unlawful Pleasures hear what Solomon the wisest of Men saith Rejoyce O young Man in thy youth and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy Youth and walk in the way of thy heart and in the sight of thine Eyes but remember for all these things God will bring thee to Judgment Solomon doth not comply with Youth to encourage them to sin but by this way confutes them of their folly as much as to say Thou mayest if thou wilt take thy pleasure and ease and satisfie thy vain appetite with all manner of pleasures that this world will afford but remember that bitterness will attend thy pleasures God will bring to light thy deeds of Darkness those sins that thou hast committed in secret shall be brought to light and ●ring thee to Judgment where thou must give an account of every idle word and wicked action and then what will these pleasures profit thee by the committing of which thou hast lost Heaven and Happiness and thy immortal Soul I have read of a young Man that was very much giv'n to pleasure he standing by St. Ambrose and seeing his most excellent Death turn'd to the other young men by him and said Oh that I might live with you and dye with him Again there is a Curse of insatiableness in the Creature Eccles 1.8 The Eye is not saiisfied with seeing nor the Ear with hearing Pleasure saith one is a beautiful Harlot sitting in her Charriot whose Wheels are Pride and Gluttony Lust and Idleness the two Horses are Prosperity and Abundance the two Drivers Idleness and Security her Attendants are Grief Guilt and too late Repentance Death and Ruin Many strong men have been destroyed by her but never any received full satisfaction and content in her Therefore O young Men avoid this Harlot come not near her door St. Augustine before his Conversion could not tell how to live without those Pleasure which he much delighted in but when his nature was changed and his heart graciously turn'd to God Oh how sweet is it saith he to be without those former sweet Pleasures A truly enlightned soul that hath tasted of the pleasures that are in the enjoyment of Christ Oh how bitter are all other pleasures to him The third sin of Youth is rashness They saith Aristotle know little and fear less Saint Paul exhorts young men to be sober minded and discreet how many young men have had large Estates and by their Folly Rashness and Extravagancy have brought themselves to Poverty Rashness unmans a man and will put him upon things below manhood Should I discover the many evils that attend Rashness which usually Reigns in Youth I should exceed my bounds but let this suffice and let all young men decline and wholly forsake it The fourth sin attending Youth is mocking and Scoffing at Religion and those that are holier than themselves Job 30 3 4. But now saith he they that are younger than I have me in derision Doth not this age abound with too many Scoffers at Religion I leave any indifferent party to judge The Athenians scoffing at Silasis Wife had like to cause the destruction of their City her Husband was so incensed against them I am afraid that our Atheism and scoffing at Religion and good men hath ruined our City Felix for one malicious scoff did nothing day and night but vomit blood till his unhappy soul was separated from his wretched body The fifth Sin attending Youth is Lust and Wantonness which caused St. Paul to admonish Timothy to flee worldly Lust notwithstanding Timothy was a chast Youth but St. Paul admonisheth him knowing the temptations that attend Youth much more need have we to warn the Youth of our days to flee those youthful Lust that so unman them and make them so like to the beasts that perish Oh how do too many in this Nation in this City in these Subburbs instead of going to hear a Sermon on the Lords day walk in the Fields or lie in an Alehouse or Tavern nay I am afraid some too many go to the cursed Harlots houses and there spend their time but surely destruction will certainly attend such practices The poor youngman that murthered his fellow servant Thomas Savage by name confessed that the sin of Whoredom and Sabbath-breaking brought him to the Gallows Young man take heed by this sad example now in time lest God make thee the next for great and grievous is this sin in the eyes of God and he will severely punish it upon all such as follow it as we see daily he hath done on several Persons Sixthly another grievous sin too much practised by youth is swearing how too common is it in many places in City and Country by men women and children notwithstanding the foulness vileness and wickedness of this sin and so offensive to

Almighty God Consider of it before it be too late for how dost thou know O thou filthy Swearer and Blasphemer of Gods name in thy cursed and filthy Oaths wishing God to damn thee but he may take thee at thy word and send thee to Hell there to abide to Eternity Matth. 12 34. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh So then if thy words are prophane thy heart is polluted if it were a pure Fountain it would not bring forth such bitter streams of filthiness if thou did bless God in thy heart thou wouldst not blaspheme with thy tongue James 3.10 Oaths are nothing but Badges of a vile and wicked person even such as are scu● of Ale-houses Taverns and filthy Prisons as unseemly evil in the most notorious Villains and High-way-men much more in any that pretend the least spark of Grace Remember that God will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain Ex. 20. He that maketh no conscience of small Oaths will not stick at great Ones But some may object and say I have been so accustomed to Swear that I cannot leave it know this that if thou canst not alter thy custom by Repentance God can and will alter it by punishment and therefore let all Men Women and Children leave this sin as they tender the salvation of their immortal Souls and rebuke it boldly in all Persons guilty of it Saith St. Chrysostom Youth is hard to be ruled easie to be drawn away apt to be deceived and and stands in need of very violent Reins Saith Cornelius A Lapide The Ancients did use to paint Youth like a young man naked with a veil over his face his right hand bound behind him and his left hand loose and Time behind him pulling one thread out of his Veil every day intimating that youngmen are void of Knowledge and blind and unfit to do good ready to do evil till time by little and little makes them wiser Consider of this O young man that the least Dram of Pleasure brings thee abundance of grief and though thy paths seem to be strewed with Rose Buds of Delight and Pleasure yet bitterness will be the end There are many other sins that attend Youth Ignorance Falshood Impatiency under reproof a trifling Spirit Prodigality Drunkenness and taking Gods name in vain which sins I would intreat thee O young man to avoid as thou tendernest the good of thy immor-soul and as thou expectest Heaven and Happiness for ever leave and loath these Sins as thou wouldest a Toad or Serpent I shall refer thee for thy further satisfaction to an excellent sheet Intituled A timely Warning to Drunkards Swearers and blasphemers of Gods holy Name and other lewd Livers Again I shall speak a few words to Young men 1. As a Child under tuition of thy parent● 2. As a Prentice under tuition of a Master ● As a child in the first place be diligent to serv● God hear the word preached read the Scriptures diligently and other good Books be sur● to pray to God morning and evening according to the example of holy David if thou can not pray buy a Book of Godly prayers till God shall enable thee to pray without a Book Be sure to reverence respect and honour thy Parents with all dutifulness and gentle behaviour as a Child of God ought to do I shall not be large in this but refer thee t● an excellent sheet named Mr. Baxters direction for Family Duties containing the duty of parent● to children children to parents Masters to Servants and servants to masters Secondly a word to thee as an Apprentice o● Servant First be faithful and honest in that calling that God hath called thee to giving respect to thy master and mistress obey the● in all their lawful commands hear the advice of S. Paul Servants be obedient to your masters in singleness of heart Eph 6 avoiding all ●●fering and making away thy masters goods read the pattern of a good servant in that o● Joseph Gen. 30. he was so just that his master committed all his goods into his possession and he missed nothing afterward God raised him up to be the second person in the Kingdom I have read of an Italian Poet who brings in a proper Young man Rich and Potent thus discoursing with Death in the habit of a Mower with a Sythe in his hand cutting down the life of Man for all flesh is grass Isa 40. and wilt thou not spare any Person saith the young man I spare none saith Death Man's life is but a Day a short day a Winters day oftentimes the Sun goes down upon a Man before it be well up your day is short and your work is great and your Journey is long and therefore you should rise early and set forwards towards Heaven betimes as that Man doth that hath a long Journey to go on a Winters day every days experience tells us that a young Mans Life is as much a vapour as the Old and as much uncertain Again young Men and young VVomen if you would be really good in the next place make sure of your Conversion for without Conversion there is no salvation Except you be born again you cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Joh. 3.3 St. Austins Conversion was on this wise He heard a voice from Heaven saying take up and Read and in opening the New Testament he fell upon the place of Romans 13.13.14 Let us walk honestly as in the day not in Drunkenness not in Chambering and Wantonness not in Strife and Envy but put on the Lord Jesus and make no provision for the flesh to obey it 〈◊〉 the Lust thereof The Scripture so wrough● upon him as it was the means of his conversio● St. Cyprian was converted by reading the fir●● Chapter of Jonah Junius was converted by reading the first chapt of John the Evangelist I have read of Paphnutius that he converted two Famous Strumpets Thais and Ephron with this Scripture Argument That God seet● all things in the dark when the doors are fast th● windows shut and the Curtains drawn I have read of a poor Man that perswaded a young Scholar from reading Poetry and to fall upon reading the Scriptures which he did and before he had read out Genesis it pleased God to work a change in his heart and tur● him to the Lord in the 20th year of his Age. Many more Examples might be produced to exctie young Persons to the Study of the Scriptures thou dost not know but it may have the same influence on thy hard heart to softe● it and thy proud spirits to humble them an● your sinful natures to change them and yo● may by the operation of the spirit be converted and saved by them Again further consider O all young person● if in the spring and morning of your days yo● do not bring forth fruits to God it is ver● much if you do ever for death-bed Repe●tance is rarely true for those that stop