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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40656	A collection of sermons ... together with Notes upon Jonah / by Thomas Fuller.; Sermons. Selections	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1655 (1655)	Wing F2418; ESTC R21301	51,193	163

it wrong done to David to revenge it but as for Davids sinnes and especially the sinnes of his youth here he lyes at another Guard Remember not Lord the sinnes of my youth 10. Come we now to the principal point which is this youth is an age wherein men are prone to be excessively sinfull By youth I understand that distance of age which is interposed betwixt infancy and the time wherein nature decayes all the time that a man in his strength is in his owne disposing Now the reasons why youth rather then infancy or old age should be prone to wickednesse are these First because that in youth they first breake loose from the command of their masters Gal. 4. 1. Now I say that the heire as long as he is a child differeth nothing from a servant though he be Lord of all but is under Tutors and governours untill the time appointed of the Father which time though long a comming when it comes at last is very welcome to young men Esay said in his heart the dayes for the mourning for my father Isaac will come shortly then will I slay my brother Jacob. Thus young men plot project and promise to themselves The dayes will come when my Father or Master or Tutor will die either naturally or legally will decease either in his person or power over me and then I 'le roare and revell and gad and Game and Dice and Drink and what not In a word young men thinke that they justly may have an action against their parents for false imprisonment because they have unjustly curbed and confined their wills and though they dare not lay their action against their Parents yet to make the best amends they may to themselves whom they conceive heretofore wrong'd with too much restraint they will hereafter right with too much liberty 11. Secondly because youth is an age wherein mens passions are most head-strong violent and impetuous so that it may be called the Midsommer Moone or if you will rather the Dog dayes of mans life 12. Thirdly because as in youth mens mindes are most strong to desire so their bodies are most able and active to performe any wickednesse 13. Lastly because young men put the day of death farre from them For there is nothing that more frights men from profanesse and into piety then the serious apprehension of death appearing with the Arrerages thereof eternall damnation in case the party dieth not in the faith and favour of God Now whereas old men see death in plano as under their eyes death is represented to young men in Landskipt as at a great distance from them And when old men discourse to young men of death young men are ready to answer them as the High Priest did Judas in a different case what is that to us looke you unto it The dayes of a man saith David are threescore yeares and ten Now what some men possibly may live to young men thinke they certainly must live to they will not abate a day nor a minute nor a moment of threescore and ten they have calculated their owne Nativities and so long they are sure they shall live 14. As for the sinnes whereof youth is most properly guilty they are these First Pride and indeed though they and none else have any just cause to be proud yet they have the best seeming cause to flesh and blood For young men have health and strength and swiftnesse and valour and wit and wisdome too as they thinke themselves though indeed the more fooles because they thinke so themselves 15. Secondly Prodigality for they begin where their Fathers did end and are the eldest sonne especially in matter of Worldly wealth as good men at their starting as their fathers were at the ending of their Race And commonly it commeth to passe that where the father like Logick had his fist contracted the sonne like Rhetorick hath his hand expanded 16. The third sinne of youth is Rashnesse For as old men because they are acquainted with the Changes and chances of the world when they goe about any great Action start all doubts dangers and difficulties probable and possible whereby sometimes it comes to passe that by their tedious tarrying on causelesse caution they lose the advantage of great Actions which are made to goe off with a spring of speedy execution so on the other side young men who know litle and feare less being loath to confesse the poverty of their experience by borrowing councell from others rashly runne on often to their hurt alwayes to their hazard as if successe was bound out of duty to attend their most desperate designes Yea David himselfe cannot be excused from this sinne of Rashnesse witnesse his words to Abigail the 1 of Sam. 25. 34. As the Lord God of Israel liveth except thou hadst hastned and come to meet me surely there had not been left unto Nabal by to morrow light any that pisseth against the wall A precipitate project what if the master was wilfull must all the servants be wofull what if Nabal had been too niggardly of his meate must David be too prodigall of his sword Yea and he bindes it too with an oath so that either he tooke Gods name too vainely in jest or the innocent blood too sadly in earnest Rashnesse is the third sin of youth 17. Disobedience to Parents followeth in the fourth place a great sin to which young men are much subject especially if their parents be feeble and froward and foolish too perchance as doting by age then they are ready to despise them 18. The fift and last sinne we insist on is wantonnesse the proper and paramount sinne of youth and therefore S. Paul writing to Timothy 2 Tim. 2. 22. Flee youthfull lusts One might thinke this precept to Timothy might well have been spared considering that Timothy had a weake body subject to often infirmities and such sick folke are likely to thinke rather of a Winding sheete then Wantonnesse Secondly Timothy was temperate in his dier daily drinking nothing but water and such cold liquor was likely to quench all heate of lust and yet because Timothy though a good man though a weake though a temperate man yet but a man and a young man S. Paul thought the precept not improper for the person Flee youthfull lusts Lust is the fift sinne of youth 19. All these five are the sinnes of youth Would I could say but as truly these five are all the sinnes of youth But alas youth is capable of and subject to all sinnes whatsoever And yet though youth be too bad in it self let us not make it worse then it is With the fashion of the World when an offender is guilty of more then he can answer to charge him with more then he is guilty Youth may commit all sinnes yet all sinnes are not the sinnes of youth A young man may be covetous yet Covetousnesse is no young mans sinne Old men would be angry if they might

the Asse and the Asse Colt o●herwise alwaies such his humility he went 9. Secondly His Industry About But here it will be demanded whether this did not something trespasse on our Saviours gravity and that staidnesse which he used in other actions Did not this savour something of an erratical and circumfraneous motion Sure it was contrary to the counsell he gave his Disciples Into what town or city ye enter there abide Mat. 10. 11. Goe not from house to house Luke 10. 2. Had not therefore our Saviour in like manner better have fixed himselfe in one place than thus to wander up and down when he went about 10. I answer three satisfactory reasons may be rendred of our Saviours frequent removals though the first so sufficient in its self it will give a discharge to the other two as added onely for Ornament not Necessity 1. Therefore our Saviour went about per force because he had no certain habitation of his own therein constantly to recide but was faine to make use of the houses of his friends therein to abide Mat. 8. 20. The foxes have holes and the birds of the aire have nests but the son of man hath not where to lay his head 11. By the way let me bespeak the thankfulnesse of many persons whom I behold in this Auditory to whom God hath not onely given Agurs wish Prov. 30. to be fed with food convenient for them but also so large estates that they have plenty of Places exchange of Houses variety of Habitations How ought such to lay out their soules in thankfulness to God! it faring in this point farre better with them than with our Saviour himself who for want of a dwelling was fain to go about 12. Secondly Our Saviour went about so the better to decline and escape the malice of those who sought after his life Any man can at a near distance hit a dead mark whilst he must be a good marks-man indeed who can hit a flying Fowle Christ therefore was alwaies in motion that he might not give a steddy aim to his enemy's malice When Herod the Fox designed his death in Galilee then he took his private progresse into Judea and when those in Judea projected to murder him he made his secret return into Galilee or else retreated John 11. 54. to a City called Ephraim in the wildernesse and continued there 13. He was unfit to be a Saviour of mankinde who would not by all prudentiall wayes be a Saver of himself Though he would not decline death when his hour was come he would not court it before that time he would lay his life down not throw it down patiently give himself not wilfully cast himself away for mankinde Otherwise if he had refused to embrace all lawful wayes of self-preservation untill his appointed time was come he had died a Malefactor not made by God a sin for us but being a sinner of himself no better than Felo de se guilty of his own destruction 14. Thirdly Christ went about so the more conveniently to disperse and dispence his doctrine and miracles that the more people might enjoy the benefit thereof If the Sun should alwaies stand still in one place that part of the earth would be fryed and the rest frozen that would be parched with heat and the rest pinched with cold wherefore the providence of Nature hath so ordered and disposed it that the Sun shall take his circuit through the Zodiack that so his light and heat may be communicated to the more Countreys Christ in like manner that Sun of Righteousnesse Mal. 4. 2. arising with healing in his wings made his motion through the twelve Signes I mean the twelve Tribes of Israel that so the more places might participate of his Presence Preaching and Miracles 14. Passe we now from his Humility to his Charity Went about doing of good and that in several considerations in respect of All times All places All persons In endeavouring whereof may my weak endeavours and your intentions as well as we may observe our Saviours motion and go about after him Sequiturque Patrem non passibus aequis and though in circular motions it matters not where we begin so be it we continue moving till we returne where we began yet for methods sake we will first handle the first point in respect of all times 16. Let us take notice of a Diurnall or daies work of our Saviour He was no large lier on bed but a timely riser about his fathers work John 8. 2. And early in the morning he came again into the Temple As he rose early he went late to bed especially on the Sabbath day the day of his greatest imployment for when he had wearied himself all the day long with preaching his Word at night when his work was ended his work was new begun People then pressing upon him afresh forbidden before by the superstitious Pharisees to be healed by him As he rose earely and went late to bed so all the day long was he busied in doing of good 17. If any time of the day may seem to be priviledged from Employment and exempted from Industry sure it is the time of Refection when Men in midst of the Terme of all their worke may and must make a Vacation to themselves the better to refresh their hungry and weary bodies therein But even at those times was Christ intentive in doing of good True it is it was meat and drinke unto him to doe his Fathers work Iohn 4. 32. So zealous in prosecution thereof that sometimes he fasted from other food Mark 3. 20. He could not so much as eate bread for the crowding of the company about him but when Liberty was allowed him to take his repast he improved his time in doing good witnesse his demeanour at the table of the Pharisee who invited him to dinner as Luke 14. where he received not so much temporall food from the entertainer as he bestowed Spirituall counsell upon him verse 12. Then said he also to them that bad him c. He put forth a parable to them that were bidden verse 7. and upon the occasion of these words Blessed is he that shall eate bread in the Kingdome of God uttered by a fellow guest he put forth a most heavenly Parable 18. One demanded how a Man might make himselfe welcome at a Feast to whom it was answered ne sis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 come not thither without paying thy shot lest otherwise he be beheld as a clogge or burden to the company Another answered much to the same effect Sit not there as a stone upon a stoole that is contribute if not money yet mirth to the company bring some ingratiating quality with thee that may make thee acceptable to thy fellow guests Sure I am our Saviour was not indebted to the company where he dined bringing with him though no carnall mirth which ends in sadnesse yet spiritual joy contained in that holy counsel which he so