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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

What truer and apter Emblem can you give of him than of a new Ship Lanching out into the Main Ocean without Helm and Ballast or Pilot to Steer her which must needs move uncertainly and at random become the sport of every Wave and be tossed by every Wind till at last it either overset by its own vanity or strike upon some less-heeded Rock and be finally lost beyond all hope of recovery Now Religion would be remedy against all these misfortunes it would cause him to act steddily and enable him to choose wisely and repay him with that Satisfaction to which all the entertainments of sense are a trifle and a dream it would fix him upon things worthy of his care and able to compensate his Labour things becoming his Nature and sutable to so noble a Being and things that instead of wearying him in vain and empty pursuits would repay his Labour with that beyond which nothing of satisfaction can be desired 2. But then it is a stronger Argument to Religion to consider what hurtful mischievous and deadly things Youth is so very apt to pursue if Religion direct it not better It is a sight pittiful enough to behold a poor Child run eagerly over Stocks and sharp Stones and a dangerous Quagmire in the pursuit of a painted Butter-Fly as I intimated before but to see this Child following a speckled Viper and striving to graspe a shining Scorpion that will repay his first touch with a deadly Sting and dart a Poison into his Blood which is infallibly mortal this is a sight at which our hearts would tremble and our Blood presently chill it almost exceeds compassion and no pitty is big enough for it Alas this is but a faint Emblem of Youth pursuing Sensuality and Lust running upon the points of Swords and Daggers wounding it self with such deep and deadly Stabs as nothing but the Balmy Blood of the blessed Jesus can heal and plunging it self into such an abyss of guilt as nothing but the extraordinary yea miraculous love of God can save him out of It is a reflection afflictive enough to consider that sensuality and intemperance and youthful Lusts lay up matter for future diseases and pains of the Body that they poison the Blood stain the Beauty and Complexion weaken the Temper and Constitution antedate Old Age and the infirmities of it and that a vicious Youth is digging his own Grave as fast as he can But Oh! what affliction and sorrow must it needs cause to consider that these provide matter for eternal Torments that they Stab the Soul with Incurable horrour and pain incense the Wrath and Vengeance of an Almighty God and consign both Body and Soul to Hell for Ever What a wounding spectacle is it to see that fair and beautiful creature with which a Cherubin might fall in Love that is the Image and Breath of the great God and so nearly allyed to the blessed Jesus whom Angels guard with joy and the providences of Heaven wait upon which the blessed Spirit of God inspires and for whom all the Glories of Heaven are prepared I say to see this fair Creature transform it self into a Serpent and fall in Love with a foul Toad contract Friendship with Fiends and Devils and yield up it self to the hellish conduct of them take up with the foul and muddy pleasures and entertainments of Beasts and to pass from hence into everlasting burnings Who can think of this without transports of sorrow and grief Or what Eyes can choose but burst out into Tears even of Blood at so sad a prospect Yet this is really the case of that Youth which Religion doth not season and govern it runs headlong upon its own destruction it is a cheap Prey to every silly Temptation betrayed easily into every pittiful Sin and Vice whose appearance though it seem fair yet its latter end is bitterness and its paths inevitably lead down to Hell such a poor creature is contriving his own Damnation making court to Hell and inconsiderately rushing upon those courses which will certainly period in Eternal Flames 3. And yet we have another Argument beyond these and such a one as we may well hope will be the more effectual in that it meets with the common Plea and Objection that is usually made by Young persons against such discourses and that I have hinted before is a presuming upon a great deal of time and putting death far from them imagining that they may have time enough hereafter to regard Religion in and bethink themselves of attending to the precepts of it Against this fancy the 3d. sense in which Youth is said to be vanity will be a good remedy which lets them know that their time of life is no surer than others and that their presuming upon the future is equally groundless They are as subject to the stroak of Death and to the impressions of Diseases to hasten it as any others yea a great deal more especially if they be irreligious and vicious and for this daily observation as I said before is as convictive as demonstration Give me the strongest Constitution among you all or that Youth that thinks himself securest of long life let me but have leave to lead him to the paths of the Dead and beg him to observe what footsteps he sees in the ways that lead to the Chambers of the Grave and then let him tell me if he see not those of his own Complexion and Age and such as might have presumed upon a longer life as well as himself and that upon the same reasons too Or let me beg such an one to look upon this Herse and consider whose Corps we are going to Intomb and then let me desire him to say what he hath to alledg against Death and the possibility of it which this young Gentleman might not have done with as much shew of reason And yet you see all his Pleas have fail'd him Let me therefore beg you to improve this to that purpose of Wisdom that providence intends it learn every one of you to number so his days as now to apply their hearts to Wisdom and every one to entertain himself with this serious meditation that ere long the same case may be my own my turn for any thing I know may be the next and those that now carry out the remains of my Friend to the Grave may presently be called upon to do the same office for mine These thoughts by the help of Gods grace would correct the gayety of your Spirit pull down your vain crests render you serious and thoughtful and convince you that Religion is as absolutely needful for you as it either is or can be for others In these three considerations doth the strength of this Argument consist and were they but duly entertained by young Persons they could scarce fail of having effect upon them in engaging them to a present care after Religion and Holiness which is the end that I have been pursuing in

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.