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death_n	life_n	love_n	soul_n	8,923	5	5.0064	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53925	A New-Years gift for youth being the substance of a sermon, preached at the funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Bell, (aged sixteen years, odd months) at St. M. Overies, in Southwark, Decemb. 1. 1686. upon those words (chosen by her) of Solomons / by Samuel Peck ...	Peck, Samuel.	1687 (1687)	Wing P1036; ESTC R40070	7,661	12

take you away with his stroak till you drop into your Graves and all your thoughts perish And what is the reason of this procrastination but an Oblivion of your Creator The sooner you repent and are pardoned Is it not the better The sooner you are reconciled to God are in the way to Heaven and obtain a well-grounded Hope of Gods saving-love in Christ to your Souls Is it not the better What is the ground then of your delay to be religious of your forgetfulness of God and of your Duty to him and your own Souls Why 1. Solomon tells you one Reason is Sloth and Idleness Prov. 6.10 You are loath to buckle to the Yoke of Gods Commandments you look upon him as an hard Master account his ways too strict and holy his Injunctions and Institutions unreasonable and grievous and so are unwilling to submit and conform to them 2. Another may be excessive Love to youthful Lusts and Pleasures These stoln Waters are sweet to your Souls so that tho' you hear you Sins Reproved and think of forsaking them yet God knows that 's all you do but think of it for your immoderate love to and delight in them obstructs your doing it 3. Confidence of long Life and that you have time enough before you and Repentance hereafter will do as well as now God upon true Repentance forgives all Let the Wicked forsake his way and the Vnrighteous man his thoughts and turn unto the Lord he will have Mercy upon him and to our God He will abundantly pardon Isa 55.7 This is Gods promise and it holds good to the Old as well as Young Penitent or Convert Since therefore my Sins may be pardoned and my Eternal State secured by repenting any time before I dye as well as now why should I imbitter my youthful days with the unpleasant severities of Religion and sowr acts of Repentance and Mortification Not I Old Age suits melancholly and sorrow much better than Youth then I may hearken to your Advice but not before 4. The many Escapes that young persons have from Dangers and dangerous Sicknesses Nature is strong and vigorous in them and they wade through all and when the Danger is over they forget the vows and promises their Lips have made in the day of their distress and that Reformation and Holiness which they were so forward to put on and engage in in their Adversity they are as ready to forget and put off again in the day of their prosperity Well but remember what Solomon saith here The Evil days will come Sickness and Death will come and how soon you know not You have here an Example before your Eyes that Death lays his cold hand upon Youth And daily experience tells you that For One that dyes in his Old Age there are Hundreds dye in their Youth therefore saith he Now in thy Youth remember thy Creator while the Evil days come not And this brings me to the second Observable in these words Namely Prop. II. THat God expects and looks for Service from young persons That these should set their Hearts and Affections upon Him honour glorifie and serve Him by doing his Will and keeping his Commandments for so this Phrase Remember thy Creator imports Affection Practice Love and Obedience That of Moses may serve for a Comment upon this Text of Solomon Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God in not keeping his Commandments his Judgments and his Statutes which I command thee this day Deut. 8.11 Mark Sirs to Remember thy Creator then is to keep his Statutes and to obey his Commandments and that in your Youth whilst all the Powers and Faculties of thy Body and Soul are strong active and vigorous and most fit for his Service Under the Law God called for the first Fruits and for the Firstling of the Flock the Gospel of it is this That so soon as we come to years of understanding to dispose of our hearts and affections we should offer them first to God. And you have many Examples of this in Scripture Josiah at Eight years old did that which was right in the sight of God Samuel heard and obeyed Gods Voice when a Child Timothy of a Child knew the Scriptures And the Children of the Elect Lady were found walking in the Truth 2. Epistle of St. John. And why may I not propound to your imitation this young Gentlewoman not full 17. years of Age whose Remains lye yet before you who doubtless Remembred her Creator and had a Sense of God and of Religion upon her mind in her Youth I confess I knew her not in her life but being twice with her in her last Sickness I perceived that in her that strong love to God those vehement desires after Him and unusual consolations from Him to her Soul before Death as wrought in me a perswasion that she walked with God in her life Her sweet and inward peace of Conscience her hearty and holy Ejaculations her pious and Heavenly Discourse her freedom from the fears of Death her contempt of this Life and World and all the Vanities of it her impatient longings to depart and to be with Christ insomuch that she begged of me not to pray for her life or recovery that she might enjoy him more fully in Glory I say these are rare to be found in a person so young or in any indeed but those who have kept up a close Communion with God and have walked in Christ as they have received him And if that saying be true Qualis vita finis ita As is the life so is the death we may believe her Life was Holy whose End was so Heavenly joyous full of comfort and consequently that she is arrived at the Haven of all Joy and Felicity in the Morning of her Age. O what a support must this needs be to you who bewail her loss or rather the loss of her for your loss is her gain And O that all you young Ones who knew her would follow her in this to Remember your Creator in the days of your youth Considering That 1. 'T is most reasonable That He who made you should be first served by you that all the affections and motions of your hearts and minds all the works and actions of your lives should be primarily towards Him in whom you live move and have your Beings the Father and Fountain of all your Mercies in this Life and whose love in Christ Jesus is the only Foundation of Hope for Mercy and Glory in the Life to come 2. The time of Youth is the most seasonable time for Gods Service you lose the best part of your life if you lose your Youth Optima queque dies miseris mortalibus avi prima Fugit now you are most capable of any thing that is good most capable of divine Instructions of performing holy Duties of keeping Gods Commandments and of discharging whatever is incumbent upon you in your Christian Calling Remember this