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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03691	The young-man's duty: or, Good council for young-men. Shewing the happiness of being good betimes. [W]ith an alarm from the eternal God, to drowsie saints and secure sinners. As also the young-mans objections an[s]wered, and the old-mans doubts resolved. / By Roger Hough.	Hough, Roger	1677 (1677)	Wing H2915A; ESTC R178262	8,881	27

THE Young-man's Duty OR Good Council for Young-Men Shewing the Happiness of being good betimes ●ith an Alarm from the Eternal God to Drowsie Saints and secure Sinners 〈◊〉 also the Young-Mans Objections answered and the Old-mans doubts resolved By Roger Hough King 18.12 But I thy Servant fear the Lord from my youth ●●overbs 16.31 The Hoary Head is a crown of Glory if it be found in the way of righteousness LONDON ●●●nted by W. L. and T. J. for Phillip Brooksby next door to the Ball in West-smithfield near the Hos-pital-Gate 1677. THE Young Man's Duty Eccles 11 Chap. 9 Verse Rejoyce O Young-man in thy Youth and let thy heart chear thee in the days of thy youth and walk in the ways of thy heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee to Judgement SOlomon in the Conclusion of this Chapter is Exhorting the Sons of Men to true Religion and the better to and in order to the same he mindeth them of Death and Iudgement without which there cannot be planted in us a right Care and Fear of God From the Seventh Verse to the latter end he hath to do with Two Sorts of Men. First With those that were glued to this life and to the delights and pleasures thereof of And thus he brings them in speaking thus Truly the light is sweet and it is a pleasant thing to behold the Sun verse 7. By light there we are to understand the light of the Sun shining on us while we enjoy this Mortal Life This many men suppose to be a very pleasant thing and they overmuch content themselves in the same These Solomon verse 8. refuteth by three Arguments The First is this that though a Man live many years yet let him remember the days of darkness That is That a time of death will come a time when our Sun will set and our light will turn to darkness though we live never so long never so sweetly never so pleasantly though we enjoy the light of the Sun yet we should carefully remember that darkness abideth in us Secondly saith Solomon These days are His Argument is thus much Let a man consider with himself though he live many years yet notwithstanding the days and years of his life cannot be compared with the days and years of his death Now in the Word we have read we have to deal with Young-men and he is altogether given to jollity and Merriment He forgeteth God and the days of darkness and his later end Rejoyce O Young man in thy Youth and let thy Heart cheer thee in the day of thy youth and walk in the ways of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know this there is a cooling Card that for all these things God will bring thee to judgement In the Word we will consider two parts First What Young-men do Secondly The Medicine of God to heal young-men of their default that young-men do is this They give themselves over to an inordinate Carnal joy This joy is set out from the time of it the days of thy youth from the cause of it their hearts cheer them from the kinds of it they walk in the ways of their hearts and in the sight of their eyes Thirdly The Medicine with which Solomon would heal young-men of this inordinate carnal joy is this Know saith he that for all these things God will bring thee to judgement that is It is a most Divine and infallible truth that every one should know and acknowledge that whatsoever sins they commit in their Youth without repentance they must undergo the dreadful judgement of God beeause of them Doct. That it is a Sin of Young-men to Rejoyce inordinately and carnally in the days of their youth to walk after their hearts and in the sight of their eys We Read concerning the Old World that were Eating and Drinking and Marrying and giving in Marriage altogether sottish and sensual till the Wrath of God came in the Flood and swept them away Isa 22.14 Let us eat and drink for too morrow we shall die It is thought this was not so much the Language of Age as of the Youth in Israel Hence Solomon giveth a Caveat to Young-men Eccles 12.1 To Bridle and restrain from this jollity and carnal Mirth Remember now the Creator in the days of thy youth while the evil days come not nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them And the Apostle St. Paul 1 Tim. 2.22 Instructeth Timothy to slye youthful lusts Tit. 2.6 Exhort young-men that they be sober minded Let us a little consider the reasons of the Doctrine whence it is that Young-men should be so much misguided in their youth The first cause is Natural Corruption that they have drawn by Propagation from their Parents a Spiritual Leprosie and Malady and a Disease which as it prevaileth for the most part upon age by covetousness so it geteth ground of youth by sensuallity and voluptuousness this dams up the ear against reproof this hardens the heart against instruction and makes many young men the Souldiers of Satan in sin Again in the second place Men in their youth forget the day of their Reckoning and Iudgement they are not mindful of their later end Deut. 32.22 Oh that they were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end this precept is neglected both by youth and age but especially by those of younger years for they think it is time enough to repent and turn to God when they are old and so they put off God from time to time till at last justice cuts them down and throws them into everlasting burning where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth Again in the third place Young-men are not broken down by afflictions the Fallow ground is not Plowed up by afflictions which through the grace of God are great means to fame Nature and to subdue Pride and to bring the Soul to a right frame and temper Before I was afflicted saith David I went astray And Ephraim saith J●r 31. I was as a Bullock unaccustomed to the yo●k hou● chastised me and I was chastisedst I w●s ash med● because bore the reproach of my youth But young-men are free from aches and pains and sickness and sorrow much more then old age and this is the reason why they are more Licentious Lastly Young-men want true Ioy in God therefore they betake themselves to Carnal joy for sure it is a man cannot live without joy and contentment if he hath it not from the Wells of Salvation Now because men in their Youth cannot take in the Spiritual Ioy of that clear Fountain therefore they drink in the muddy waters of carnal joy The use of this point is in the first place an admonition to all Young-men to take notice of those Maladies and spiritual Diseases in themselves The first degree of our healing is to see