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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	lust_n	youth_n	youthful_a	24	3	10.8138	5	false

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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

that Sin however pleasant it seems in it's present appearance yet is really afflictive and sad in the Tryal and Issue just as the Caresses of an Harlot are Inviting and Charming at first but deadly as the Sting of a Serpent and destructive as the Embraces of Death at the latter end And Wicked Men are therefore called Vain and Foolish because they are cheated by the Appearance and Deceitfulness of Sin as the Apostle speaks and made to expect a great deal of Happiness and Delight when alas the Dead are there and its Paths lead down unto Hell 3. Vanity is often used to express that which is fleeting and uncertain and soon fadeth or passeth away thus all Flesh is called Vanity and compared to the Flower of the Field Man is called Vanity because subject still to the Stroak of Death and of no fixed continuance The Glory of the World and the Possessions of it are called Vanity and often said to be Vain because so subject to decay The Happiness and Prosperity of wicked Men is called Vanity because they stand in slippery places and Riches are called Vain because so Volatile and Uncertain and because they make themselves Wings and Flye away Now Youth is called Vanity in all these respects 1. For its prosecution of Vain and deceitful things its judgment is not Ripe nor hath its reason attained to any consistency it is easily imposed upon by shews and appearances it sees but the outside of things is easily captivated and charmed with flattering and guilded Pretences and Frauds and Cheats are easily put upon them This is one great reason why its Temper and Inclinations are so desultory and uncertain now hot in the pursuit of one Vanity and presently another now its Hawk and then its Hound and after these its Horse or its Mistress Ingross its respects because it fixeth only by chance and uncertain contingences and as these wild reasons alter its Choice and Affection varies too Or because it is soon cloyed with any one of these and finds not that satisfaction that it expected it therefore beats for new and rangeth over the whole Periphery because none satisfieth its expectations 2. It is called Vanity upon a Second and worse account of Vanity because it is subject to many Sensual Lusts that hurry and betray it into Sin and Wickedness and drown Men in Perdition as the Apostle Speaks The inclinations of Sense are Strong and Rampant the Powers of Reason and Understanding weak and small not able to see into the Truth of things nor to bridle those impetuous Lusts that are so easily Fired and Captivated by any thing that promiseth present gratification for this cause you have mention of Youthful Lusts 2 Tim. 2.22 i e. such as that Age is especially incident unto 3. Youth is called Vanity upon the last reason also i. e. because it is frail and of uncertain continuance and Young Men as subject to the Stroak and Seizures of Death as any others nay indeed a great deal more and had we not reason for the Truth of this assertion yet we might easily vouch certain and dayly experience for it I am too Sensible how apt Young Persons are to think otherwise and venture to act upon such Wild Conceits they Imagine they have the World before them and a great deal of Time that they may presume upon but had they either reason to judge of things or would give themselves leisure to make any due observations they would soon see the Vanity and Hazard of this Fancy Alas their Tempers and Constitutions are tender and not yet come to any firm consistency frail and soon broken as the Fine Glass and a thousand times more subject to any External Impressions then when their Tempers are Hardened and their Bodies Setled the Early Bud and the new Blown Flower is Ten times more Incident to every Blast and Storm than the well Grown Branch every little Frost Nips and Spoils the Beauty of the one while the other can stand the shock of Winter and defie the rude and Cold salutes of the Northern Snows And would Young Persons but look abroad and take account of those that Pass to the Regions of the Dead they would find there were as much difference in the Numbers of the Young and old as they see there is between the Blossoms and the Ripe Fruit there being Thousands of the one that fall to the Ground for one of the other that is gathered into the Basket We see but a very few Hoary Heads and in this Age of Luxury and Intemperance are like every day to see fewer and therefore may without any great help of Logick infer that multitudes of Persons die young These are the reasons now upon which Youth is especially called Vanity and what strength there is in these to engage young Persons to Religion and a great regard to it 2. Is the second thing proposed in which I shall endeavour with all possible plainness and convenient brevity to Improve this Argument and perswade Youth to a great sense and due care of Religion which is the design to which the Wiseman useth it in this place 1. And first it is one good Argument to engage such to Religion to consider what Idle Vain Impertinent things they will else be still in the pursuit of Their busie Heads and active Thoughts will still be set upon something their Spirits are volatile and still upon the wing and some project or other they will always be upon and if Religion do not in some good degree season their minds and give measures to their regards and care Lord how silly how restless and distracted will their pursuits still be What Trifles and Vanities will their care be expended upon And what a nothing will be the purchase of all their Labour We pitty the Innocence of a poor Child that takes such Pains to gather a Rush and Sweats in the pursuit of a silly Butter-Flie and is it not much greater pitty to see a comely Youth of hopeful parts and very promising capacities waste his time and strength in the pursuit of things that are every whit as Vain only not half so Innocent Things that not only Answer not his Pains but sadly illude them put him only upon the Rack of new acquists and pursuits instead of compensating his past Labours Is it not a Melancholy sight to behold Beauty and Parts a blooming Vigour and Strength and a Person worthy of the care of Angels to prosecute with so much earnestness that which satisfieth not to court Vanities which still flie from him and turn Idolater to an empty Cloud wearying himself in hunting for satisfaction in the wrong place and pursuing that which repay's him with continual disappointment Oh! what great pitty is it that such Industry should not be better directed and better rewarded Will you think how lamentably hazardous the condition of that Youth is that is setting out into a wide and hazardous World without the conduct of Religion