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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43453	The importance of religion to young persons represented in a sermon preached at the funeral of Sir Thomas Vinor, Baronet, in St. Hellens Church, London, May the 3d, 1683 / by Hen. Hesketh ...	Hesketh, Henry, 1637?-1710.	1683 (1683)	Wing H1612; ESTC R12084	11,579	35

representing of them 3. And now I proceed to put a Period to this discourse in some practical deductions and inferences from it which is the third and last thing I proposed to perform and three I shall only mention at present 1. First it may let us see how extreamly imprudent those young Persons are that think discourses of this Nature no way proper or needful for them and at what mighty and dangerous rates all such Persons do Act that regard not Religion in their Youth nor take care to govern their lives by the rules and measures of it It is to you that I have been speaking all this while and it is you that this occasion chiefly concerns for Gods sake consider well with your selves whether Religion be not as needful for you as others and whether if God should call for you out of this World as it is more than possible that he may you can hope to be saved without the aids of it Be perswaded therefore I beseech you to take it along with you and to hallow your Youth with a sense and care of it Do not think Religion an Enemy to your mirth and pleasure and delight in this World it is the best expedient to these and the only way to render them pure and real It is no Sad or Melancholy thing nor abridgeth you of any thing that is for your true happiness You may sing rejoyce and be merry God envies you nothing but sin which spoils your joys dasheth your mirth and must sooner or later be sadly accounted for Religion will make you truly cheerful preserve the comfort and delight of your own minds entitle you to Gods good care and blessing in the following course of your Lives it will fit you to live happily and to die comfortably and render you both in life and death certainly blessed 2. This will shew us how mighty careful all Parents and Guardians of Youth ought to be to season them with Religion instil a sense and knowledg of the Principles of it into them betimes and train them up in the ways of it This will be a double blessing to them and the highest instance of love and kindness and a care of them that we can give Nature obligeth us to take care of their outward wellfare and both Nature and Religion require us to take care of their Spiritual and it will be a sad account we shall make at the last Day of our failure herein when their miscarriages shall be charged upon us and their Blood be required at our hands It is our own comfort and gain that calls upon us in this as well as theirs and if we expect to have them comforts and blessings to us while they live or to part with them with any comfort when they are taken from us we should be sure to do all we can for them in this great instance 3. And lastly that all may have some gain by this discourse it may shew us of what mighty concern Religion is to us all and upon what great reasons all of us are obliged to have a due regard and care of it The same reasons of this Text that hold with respect to young Men hold equally with respect to all Men for both Middle-Age and Old Age without Religion are vanity as well as Child-hood and Youth are and as much so too subject to errors and easily imposed upon apt to Idolize the flattering vanities of this World prone to sin and all manner of wickedness and daily under the dominion of Death and incident to the stroak and seizures of it And therefore the same reasons ought to prevail with us that we have thought so very proper for them and it will be a grand shame and mighty guilt and a misery at last equal to both if while we Preach Religion to them we our selves be found regardless of it Then only can we hope with success to recommend Religion unto them when we our selves lead them and go before them in it and then may we hope for Gods blessing upon both here and by his grace and through the merits of our dear Lord to be both finally saved and happy hereafter which God of his Infinite Mercy grant us all to be for Christ Jesus sake to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all Honour and Glory and Praise now and for Evermore Amen FINIS Books Sold by Henry Bonwick at the Red-Lyon in St. Paul's Church-Yard THE Righteous Mans Portion a Sermon at the Funeral of the Noble and Renowned Gentleman Henry St. John Esq who was unfortunately killed by the Tories on the 9th of September 1679 together with a short Character of his Life and way and manner of his Death By Laur. Power M. A. sometimes Student in Trinity Colledg now Prebend and Rector of Tandrogee c. The Constant Communicant a Diatribe proving that constancy in receiving the Lords Supper is the indispensable Duty of every Christian The Second Edition to which is added a Sermon Preached at the Anniversary meeting of the Sons of Clergy-Men at St. Mary Le Bow on the 7th of December 1682. By Ar. Bury D. D. Rector of Exon. Coll. Oxon.