Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55343	A directory for youth Through all the difficulties attending that state of life. Or a discouse of youthful lusts. In which the nature and dinds of them are described, and remedies against them laid down. First preached to young people, and now published at their request. By Samuel Pomfret, minister of the gospel.	Pomfret, Samuel, d. 1722.	1693 (1693)	Wing P2798; ESTC R224107	117,456	254

to lye that as soon as the one learns them to go on Earth the other learns them to go to Hell hence these two are joyn'd together in that 58. Psal 3. Speaking of young ones they go astray from the Womb telling lies This is a sin that all but especially young ones are exceedingly prone to whereby Satan leads them captive at his will to make them his Vassals Look there young people there are several sins that are as I may say the very off-spring and Progeny of Satan and in acting of them a sinner resembles the Devil as a Child the Father For instance Pride it 's called their condemnation of the Devil 1 Tim. 3. 6. an angry passionate spirit it 's stiled giving place to the Devil 4. Eph. 26 27. the like one may say of this sin of Lying in the 8. John and the close of the 44. v. the Devil is called a lyer and the Father of Lies and in the 5. of the Acts 3. Satan is there said to fill Ananias his heart to lie against God which sheweth that where there is a lie in the Tongue there is the Devil filling of the Heart ruling in Children of disobedience hence James saith 4. chap. and the 6. v. that it sets all on fire of Hell O how great is the power that Satan acquireth in young people by this sin it gives him that which he so earnestly desires namely a spiritual possession of Souls as a man possesseth and dwells in his House and there it is he learneth young ones that master-piece in the Black Art to call Evil Good and Good Evil and to deny the fact when they have committed sin as 2 Kings 5. 25. thy Servant said lying Gehazi went no whether thus Jacobs Sons after they had wickedly sold their Brother come with a plausible Tale tho a palpable lye to their Father we found this bloody Garment in the Field but whose it is we know not 37. Gen. 32. 12. Another Sin young ones are given to is neglect of Relative duties as honouring and obeying their Parents and Masters c. this is a sin peculiar to young people and there are but few that escape the guilt of it Hence have Ministers Ecclesiastical Fathers almost every Lords-day Bills of complaint like Ezekiels Roll filled with lamentation put into our hands begging our earnest Prayers for rebellious and disobedient Children and Servants Though the justice of God is ordinarily manifest in the execution of his threatned Judgments upon Children of Belial even in this Life yet alas how seldom do young people take and improve such awful awakening warnings to hear and fear and do no more so wickedly How common is it for Children yea when grown up and their Parents grown old to set light by them and to speak Sawcily and Contemptuously of them and to them behaving themselves proudly and rudely before them as if they were their equals a practice most vile against the light of Nature and always according to the Scripture entaileth a Curse upon such unnatural Children 27. Deut. 16. Cursed be he that setteth light by his Father or his Mother and all the people shall say Amen The punishment that the Heathens inflicted on such was to few them in a Sack with a Dog Cat Viper and Ape an Emblem of unnaturalness and so drown them together and the punishment that the Law of God in the time of Moses did assign to a rebellious Son was to be stoned to Death 21. Deut. 18. If a man have a stubborn and rebellious Son which will not obey the voice of his Father or the voice of his Mother then shall they lay hold on him and bring him out unto the Elders of the City and all the men of the City shall stone him with stones till he dye And it is observable now under the Gospel how the holy and wise Povidence of God ordinarily sets a mark upon disobedient Children either in imbittering their lives with a succession of miseries and vexations here or suffering them to fall by an untimely Death 13. Another Sin Youth is prone to is Sabbath breaking a day which usually young people meet together upon to walk abroad in the Fields and take their pleasure and run into all excess of Riot Chambering acting their filthy lusts drinking Healths playing at Cards Dancing Swearing and sometimes Quarrelling Fighting Thieving Robbing of Orchards and Gardens and thus inverting that Day which God hath sanctified and appropriated to his own Honour and Service and the saving of souls to the service of the Devil and damning their own souls sure I am the whole Christian world at this day groans under the tragical and bitter effects of this sin and he is nothing worthy of Eyes that weeps not to see whole droves running headlong to Hell through this breach viz. the Breach of the Sabbath Verily the Devil hath more service done on this day than on all the six besides and how deplorable is the serious consideration hereof that the day which should be Christ's is the Devil 's great harvest of Souls and that day which should make joy in Heaven by an addition to the Church of such as shall be saved should ever prove Satans triumph and Hells inlarging it self beyond Measure at the accession of so vast a multitude of Sabbath-breakers into it 14. Another sin that Youth is exceedingly prone to is nourishing of vain hope and flattering themselves with the thought of long life putting far away from them the memorial of the evil Day Young people account it a kind of death to think of Death the meditations or tydings of it are like those of the Judges coming to the Bench to Malefactors entertained with great reluctancy and when they cannot wholly banish the items of it out of their Consciences they will be sure to set it a great way off as those bold sinners did the Prophets Vision in the 12. of Ezek. 27. the Vision that he sees is for many days to come and hence as that evil Servant in the 24. Mat. 48. when he saith in his heart my Lord deâ—ayeth his coming he began to smite his fellow Servant and to eat and drink with the drunken so young people when they once drive off the thoughts of death as far as they can from day to day then they run a whoring from God lay aside Religious duties let loose the reins of their Lusts laugh at the tremendous threatnings of the Almighty It is one of the greatest strengthners of temptations to Luxury Pride and almost every sin in the World when sinners are bold to promise themselves many years to come as you may see in that 12. Luke 17 18 19. where our Saviour brings in that foolish rich man speaking to his soul after this manner Soul take thine ease eat drink be merry thou hast goods laid up for many years O young men as you would escape the rebukes an angry God and an exasperated guilty Conscience promise not your selves long

multitudes of young people Satan hath corrupted the minds of many and diffused his venemous influence not only through the Pagan and Papal but also through the Protestant and Reformed world too O! what a world of infidelity and Atheism is to be found in our Cities and Countries and would to God our Churches were free but if we compare the lives of abundance of Professors with their pretended Creed really their profession will scarce cover their Hypocrisie and Atheism though you should exercise the largest Charity God and Christ the immortality of the Soul Death and Judgment Heaven and Hell are in their Creed and they would condemn you for a rank Heretick if you should deny any of these Doctrines But a little observation of their sensual lives will soon acquaint you with their vile and odious Hypocrisie and Atheism while you behold in their lives the great God disobeyed Christ vilified Heaven condemned and the Worlds vanities preferred before it Hell ventured upon for the sake of a pleasing sin And among us there are a generation of young Wits sprang up that that albeit they have had baptismal Water on their face yet arrived to that highth of sin as to tell the world not only in their works but also in words that Religion is a meer fancy nothing but the melancholly imagination of some poor spirited men that foolishly and fondly conceit of such a thing as God lives and of a Heaven prepared for those that have it and Hell for those that want it and then they scare and affright themselves with those buggbears that their own fancies represent And thus as the judicious Gurnal sadly observes p. 298. Some among us have dared to make it their boast and glorying that they have at last got from under the burthen of that Tyrant Conscience they can Swear and Drink Whore and what not without any check or remorse Time was when they were under the wing of their Parents that they trembled at the hearing of such guilt But now entring into those Atheistical Clubs and imbibing their principles their Consciences are become silent after they have been duck't so often for scolding that they are Sermon poof and laugh at the Notion of Damnation and at Ministers who in the name of God threaten impenitent sinners with it and look upon them as the veriest fools and mad Men in the World but know that these will prove the worst fools at last yea worse by far than David's Fool Psal 14. 1. The food hath said in his heart there is no God That fool durst only whisper it but these speak it boldly and openly These declare their Sin as Sodom and hide it not To go about to confute these Sons of Belial would be a vain thing we have Moses and the Prophets every Leaf therein is sufficient But these Sinners deride the Scriptures and so tho' one should arise from the Dead and come from Hell with the Flames of that burning Lake about his Ears and tell them the Torments they endure neither would they believe Surely that such a Generation not only of practical but professed Atheists should be found in a Land that hath enjoyed so much Gospel-light is a lamentation and ought to be for a lamentation I may say as Jeremiah 2. chap. 12. v. Be astonished O ye Heavens at this and be ye horribly afraid be ye very desolate saith the Lord. Methinks it should make our very Hearts to tremble when we see such cursed Weeds spring up in such a Garden that God hath taken such pains withal he is more than blind that doth not see and so say Stultorum plena sunt omnia Master Greenham feared rather Atheism than Popery would be England's Ruin The Lord affect your Heart and mine with this Abomination of the Day we live in namely the ridiculing and deriding the power of Godliness stiling it nothing but Fancy or Faction Pride or Singularity 18. Another Sin the Youth of this Age are much given to is Swearing Cursing and taking the Holy and Reverend Name of God in vain A Sin for which the Land mourns There are two Kinds of it both which young people are prone to 1. Using the Name of God unreverently in common talk at every turn to say O Lord O God or God bless me or take me this is taking God's Name in vain and how many thousands of little Children as well as others are guilty in this kind almost at every word tossing that awful and holy Name about in their graceless mouths which a world of Glorious Angels and glorified Spirits are magnifying continually 2. Horrid prodigious Oaths not to be named without abhorrency Rom. 3. 13 14 you read there that their Throat is an open Sepulchre the poyson of Asps is under their Lips whose Mouth is full of Cursing and Bitterness And certainly if ever the Youth of a Kingdom were in danger of that dreadful Curse of the Almighty flaming out from the Mount Ebal of those Scriptures the Swearing Youth of this Kingdom is Zech. 5 2 3 4. And he said unto me What seest thou And I answered I see a flying Roll the lengâ— thereof is twenty Cubits and the breadth there of two Cubits Then said he unto me This iâ— the Curse that goeth forth over the whoâ—â— Earth for every one that sweareth shall bâ— cut off according to it I will bring it forth saith the Lord of Hosts and it shall enter into the House of him that sweareth falsly by my Name and it shall remain in the middle of his House and it shall consume it with the Timber and Stones thereof Whence you may note that so long as this Sin remains unrepented of this Curse remains and abideth on them till it bring utter ruin upon them and their whole Estate Mal. 3. chap. 5. And I will come near to you in Judgment and I will be a swift Witness against the Swearer saith the Lord of Hosts Exodus 20. 7. The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain Not guiltless there is a Meiosis in those words that is the Lord will be severely avenged on such O the fearful estate of not a few but multitudes and whole troops of Children and young ones in this Land in this City in our Armies in our Fleets by reason of this Sin who can number the Persons much less able are we to number the Oaths the horrid Imprecations they use that almost at every word call to God to Damn them their Souls their Blood Wo to us the moral Heathen would be ashamed of us Is it not time to lament to see a young Generation run with open Mouth upon Ruin with their Mouth set against Heaven in Blasphemies and such prodigious Vices as hasten their own Damnation and threaten England's Destruction may not we justly fear that the bloody Oaths of the Land of our Nativity may turn it into an Aceldama i. e. a Field of Blood In this Sin are wrapped both Parents and

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