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death_n	path_n	young_a	youth_n	18	3	7.7230	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75929	A Christian family builded by God, directing all governours of families how to act. 1. Gods timber and framing. 2. Gods foundation and upper building. 3. Gods finishing. 4. Gods furnishing. The sum whereof is shewed after the epistle. By Robert Abbott, Pastour of the Church of God at Austines, near Pauls gate in Watling-street in London.	Abbot, Robert, 1588?-1662?	1653 (1653)	Wing A68; Thomason E1233_2; ESTC R6379	56,335	120

there is no promise that God will give it to all believers and such is single life for otherwise we should neither have Church Common-wealth nor Family Obiect If any shall say put case I can not obtain such a gift yet I resolve against marriage for Adam the perfectest man Solomon the wisest man and Sampson the strongest man were beguiled by their helpers Sol. I answer though this reason be true since sin yet it is not concludent for all single ones It is better to look before you leap and to wed your prayers to God in Heaven that he would wed you to good wives on earth for as no worldly comfort is comparable to a faithfull yokefellow so woe be to Sampson himself if he be married to a Philistim SECT 5. BUt to the particulars These single persons who are Gods timber for a Family are of foure sorts 1. Old men 2. Old women 3. Yong men 4. Yong women Of all these I shall shew you how God frames them by his Word for his building 1. Old or aged men must be Sober Grave Temperate sound in the Faith in Charitie and Tit. 2. 2. in Patience Obiect You will say what need this for them who have one foot in the grave they are too old to learn a framing now Sol. No no as Augustine learned Greeke when he was old so must they their duties John saith I write unto you Fathers as well as yong men and babes This is certain He 1 John 2. 13 14 Aetate major exemplo maximus 1 Kings 13 that is great in age is greater in example The path of hoary hair is more Imitable then that bemired with the mudd of youth The old Prophet deceived the yong and brought him to be torn to death by a Lion This is true also that virtue will make their age to be an honour and ornament unto them An old miser is as lothsome as a dunghil an old drunkard Prov. 16. 31 as rammish as a Bore an old whoremonger as noysome as hell but age is a crown of honour when found in the wayes of righteousness This lastly is most certain that they have but a short time to live in this world yong men may die old men must die therefore old Alexis going softly and stooping gave this reason of it I dy by little and little and old Hannah frequented the Temple and old Simeon waited for the consolation Paulatim morior Luke 2. of Israel that they might be fit for deaths stroke when it came If then old men are not too old to learn let them hearken to Gods framing 1. They must be Sober that is moderate in the use of meat and drink That age is full of coldness weakness driness and therefore doth more desire to warm and moysten it self with meat and drink In this case without godly care it may miscarry as we see in Lot and Noah Be Sober therefore saith Paul What a shame is it for them that have lived so long and not to have learned to use the creatures aright How shall they be accounted C●ristians who for Christs sake cannot Jude deny their lusts but feed without fear What an odious thing it is that old men who should direct others by example should by laying their honour in the dust encourage to sinne How lamentable is it to see the Image of Gods eternitie as the Antient of dayes Dan. 7. to be wallowing in the mire of sins How would it break a mans spirit to think how little time they have to watch because the Judge is at the doore their sun is setting and James 4. yet that they mispend what they can spare in surfetting Oh be not fools in Israel but be Sober 2. They must be Grave that is seemly modest and gracious in their carriages Another age requires other manners This may be Alia aetas alios mo●es postulat Gen. 23 6. Gen. 6. 9. pressed by good patterns and by reasons The Patterns are Abraham who for gravitie was accounted A Prince of God among the Hittites and Henoch and Noah who walked with God For this Elias was called My Father and Maximine the persecuting Emperour durst not look upon Lucianus the Martyr for fear he should become a Christian Yea Lacon a grave Heathen being asked why he wore his Vt eam intuens virum me ●sse sciam canos intuens capillos nihil committam illis indignum Levit. 19. 22 beard so long Answered That I looking upon it may know my self to be a man and beholding my hoary haires may commit nothing unworthy of them As to reasons God hath highly honoured them and put upon them the Image of his own Paternitie and hath therefore provided a Law for them Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head Yea out of long experience they are to teach others and to be eyes to the blind feet to the lame If they Job 29. 15. 21. do thus it will not be accepted except they be Grave Yea let me tell you old men are easily despised We know the Proverb I adore the Sun rising but contemn it setting Job 29 8. 30 4 5 6 7. and Solomon observed all the living with the second child To prevent this therefore ponder the pretious example of grave Job Could old men desire zealously to hold the crown of age to make their counsel acceptable and to keep themselves from contempt they would be Grave 2. They must be Temperate that is subdue all rebellious lusts of sinne as whoredome drunkenness lust carnal anger Covetousness Pride and the like which mostly are too properly incident to the vanitie of youth To be thus is excellent in the Aged because these lusts are abominable in all much more in the aged To have eyes full of adulterie mouthes full of rotten talk throats the Devils tunnels is damnable Solon being asked what old age was Answered it was the Vitae hyems winter of life and shall they bring forth the cursed spring of the worst youth Besides old age ought to be set apart for heavenly imployments being ready to forsake the earth It is true that we find some old men whose bones are full of the sinnes of their youth Who Job 21. savour as little of this moderate temper as they whose bloud is hottest who as dregs setled in the bottom of the barrel are as vile as if they were to live over their lives again But take heed set old Job before you he Job 1. would give more libertie then he would take for while his sons were abroad in feasting he was at home in praying and sacrificing and forget not old Barzillai who would have his son tast of the pleasures of the 2 Sam. 19. 34 35 36. 37. Court while he would stay at home and die 4. They must be sound in the faith The three former concerned them as old men but all the next as they are Christian men This soundness of