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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61859	Lessons moral and Christian, for youth and old age in two sermons preach'd at Guildhall Chappel, London : chiefly intended for the use of this city / by John Stryp ...	Strype, John, 1643-1737.	1699 (1699)	Wing S6022; ESTC R33818	27,625	134

heed now to themselves that they preserve themselves in Sobriety and Virtue that they may not afterward have such severe Reckonings and lay a Foundation of so much Trouble and Sorrow to imbitter their future Days 4. On the other hand consider the Comforts that will arise to Age from an innocent well-spent-Youth When we come to Years and begin to grow Gray and our Age puts us in mind of our Mortality and that we must not can not tarry much longer in this World then we begin I trust to think seriously what sort of Entertainment we are like to meet with in the other World and how God will look upon us when we come to dye and how it is like to fare with us to all Eternity And this will put us upon thinking on our past Lives And our Thoughts will run back to our early years how we led our Lives then how God was sought and served by us from our Youth And if after this Search we find that God's Grace restrained us from youthful Follies and that we remembred our Creator in the Days of our Youth that we were just and honest sober and clean then there cannot happen a greater comfort to us It will mightily strengthen our hopes that we are among the Number of God's Elect and that our Lot is among the Just. Besides the Comfort of our Youth spent soberly and well appears in this that a Man hath kept up his Credit and Reputation throughout his whole Life that from his Youth to his Old Age he hath constantly walked as became a good Man that he hath never stained nor bespotted his Life with deliberate and habitual Sins and Evils that his Life hath been all of a piece and his Youth hath not shamed his Old Age. What a Comfort and a Rejoycing will this be There were two Sorts of Old Men among the Jews One Sort were such as had lived loosly in their younger days and afterwards took up and grew Sober and Wise. But there was another sort among them whose Youth and Old Age both were well spent They began well and so they continued These two Sorts of Old Men in one of the great Feasts at the Temple used to stand in one of the Courts and pronounce these Words The former sort said thus Blessed be our Old Age that hath made amends for the Sins of our Youth But the latter said with more Comfort Blessed be our Youth that hath not shamed our Old Age. For indeed there is a Shame belongs to a Man as long as he lives for the Intemperance and Vices of his younger Years But when any of us have had the Grace to spend our young days well it will be a Reputation and Honour unto our Old Age. And the Consideration of it as it is matter of Thankfulness to God that hath given us such Grace in our Youth so it is matter of Peace and Comfort unto us that we have kept up a fair Name in the World all our Days 5. Young Men are subject to Death as well as the Elder Nay sometimes the younger are taken off when those that are gone further into Age and Years remain behind And therefore ought not they to be Sober that whensoever they dye they may not be taken unprovided It is a foolish thing to put off the Purposes of a good Life on this Score that Men are young and may have many years more to live because nothing is so uncertain as the Life of Man And we see Thousands of Instances of Men young in Years strong in Body vigorous in Health cut down suddenly by Fevers or some Accident or other And they dye and go to their long home as well as such who have lived to Gray Hairs And what a sad thing would it be for a young Man to suffer himself to be so cheated out of Heaven and Happiness because of the Conceit that he was young and might have lived many years more Oh! it ought to be every Man's Care above all his other Cares to think of Death and to prepare for the main Chance that when he goes out of this World he may pass into a better and leave a good Name behind them And of all the Madnesses of Youth certainly this is one of the greatest that they are so apt to put away the Day of their Death from them and to indulge to all Sensuality as tho they were sure of many future years and to cry that it will be time enough hereafter to grow Sober And then Alas Death comes on a sudden and surprises them with all their Sins and Faults and Follies about them And so they are undone to all Eternity And therefore it is the only wise Course for young Men to take Viz. To Fear God in their Youth and to Depart from Evil at this present Time that in case Death should overtake them as it hath done others as young and flourishing as they it may not endanger their Everlasting Well-being 6. To name no more in order to a sober Conversation let young Men consider some notable Instances of Persons that have been exemplarily good from their Youth For thanks be to God however corrupt the Generality of Youth are and have been yet there have been some admirable Instances of young Men that have begun and held out well in a holy chast wise and Godly Conversation And methinks these Examples should inflame Youth to labour to imitate them and to live and to do as they have done Youth is apt to Aspire and to be Ambitious and to reach after high things Certainly there is no Ambition no Aspiring like that of endeavouring to come up to that Perfection and Glory that some young Men like themselves have done What a brave young Person was Obadiah one of Ahab's Courtiers A wicked Prince and a wicked Court but yet Obadiah was not infected by either but feared the Lord from his Youth when almost all the rest had cast him behind their Backs He would not turn Idolater when the King and every one else did No he feared the Lord from his Youth So he tells Elijah But I thy Servant fear the Lord from my Youth 1 Kin. xviii 11 And that made him do such an adventurous Act to hide God's Prophets by Fifty in a Cave and feed them with Bread and Water when Iezabel had slain so many as she could find and probably had made it Death to conceal them And what a World of Good did that single good Man in those wicked Times And that chiefly because of that Fear of God which possessed his Mind from his Youth and so influenced all his after-Age Again What an incomparable Person was young King Iosiah and what admirable Service did he do for God and his Honour when his Kingdom had been by the Default of former Kings so polluted with Idolatry What a Reformation did he make in Iudah when he was very Young What Zeal for God was he endued withall and how sweet is

is they must be watchful For so the word also signifies And therefore Watch and be sober are the Phrases that the Scripture puts together as being very near of kin or all one Therefore let us not sleep as do others but let us WATCH and be SOBER So St. Paul And so the Apostle St. Peter Be SOBER be VIGILANT or Watchful But in other places this very Word Be Sober is translated Be watchful So St. Paul exhorts Timothy Watch thou in all things And so St. Peter Watch unto Prayer Where the word Watch is of the same Original with the word Sober in the Text. Hence we may infer That the Meaning of this word and perhaps the chief Meaning and Sense of it relates to Watchfulness A great and a proper Duty and Exercise for Aged Men above all others To watch for their Lord 's Coming whose Time is so near spent in the course of Nature To watch and be in Expectation of their Departure into another World To Watch unto Prayer in the place before mentioned or In Prayers as the Words may be rendred That is to be always praying unto God lifting up their Hearts to him in holy and devout Ejaculations spending much of their Time in converse with their Maker and in earnest Addresses to Him to forgive unto them all their past Errors to beg and implore his Grace to be their Comfort in their old Age and that He would not leave them in the needful time of their Trouble their Sickness their Pain their Dying Hour Again They must be watchful to keep themselves clear and free of Sin to preserve themselves in a holy blameless Behaviour that they may be fit to meet the Lord and to make their personal Appearrance before their Judge which they are so suddenly to do And therefore Let not them sleep as do others but let THEM especially Watch and be Sober as the Apostle advises all Christians 1 Thess. v. 6 This Watchfulness also consists in their diligent Attendance upon all God's holy Ordinances As for Example in a conscientious celebrating of God's Sabbaths resorting unto the Places where his Honour dwelleth with all Devotion and Seriousness of Soul and and there hearing God's Word read and explained by his Ministers with an humble obedient Ear joyning their Hearts and their Mouths in the Prayers and Supplications that are put up there for our selves and for all the Wants and Necessicities of our Fellow-Christians in an universal spreading Charity And as often as the holy Communion is administred repairing unto God's Table with Earnest Minds and holy Affections to partake of that comfortable Commemoration of Christ's Death and Passion whereby he hath procured of his Father the Pardon and Remission of our Sins to our endless Comfort and Benefit And by these Ordinances we draw near to God and acquaint our selves with Him against the Time we hope for ever to dwell with Him and to enjoy His Blessed Face In these Ordinances we hold a Communion with God and God with us and we do accustom our selves to those very Exercises that if ever God vouchsafe to bring us to Glory shall be in effect our great Employment there Thus the Aged Men should Watch. And what a happy thing would it be for them if Death should find them thus Watching They should and I hope they do consider that God will e're long send for them And therefore it should be their Endeavour that whensoever He doth send He may find them upon their Knees or at their Devotion or busied in some holy good charitable or at least warrantable Exercise And this is the first great Point of that Behaviour that is so sutable to the Aged That the Aged Men be SOBER or Watchful II. The Aged Man must be Grave that is his Carriage and outward Deportment must be managed in that Decency and Reverence as may bespeak the inward Goodness of his Mind He must so demean himself that it may appear That there is within him a true Sense of God and Goodness and an Aversion to every thing that is foul unjust and dishonest All Lightness Idleness Vanity of Behaviour Frothiness of Speech Playing Toying Sporting Chamberring and Wantonness in Words and Actions and such like so contrary to the Decorum of their Age these things are by all means to be avoided by Men of Age and Years so dissonant to Gravity There must be a Severity in their Behaviour They must not endure to see or to hear any thing that is immodest or unseemly much more that is vile and wicked And if they are Magistrates they must shew their Dislike of it by punishing and correcting it If of more ordinary Rank and Quality they must reprove it or withdraw themselves from it or give some plain Evidence of their Disallowance and Disapprovement of it There is a Lightness and Frothiness of Conversation which this present Generation of Ours is too much addicted to And it is this in a great measure more than most are aware of that doth so indispose and prejudice Men against Religion which indeed will not away with it For that is a Serious and Solid thing It will not allow of that Airiness of Behaviour that Vanity and Idleness of Speech and Trivial Conversation that is in too great Fashion and Vogue among us It was a Saying of one of the Fathers Even the Sportings of Christians ought to have a kind of Seriousness in them Every Man should do that which becomes him And there is nothing becomes a Christian but what is virtuous what is just what is innocent and what is modest and what hath the stamp of Truth and Goodness on it A Heathen gave us this Advice Reckon that nothing becomes you but what is good And it is the Apostle's admirable Councel to his Philippians in the Conclusion of his Epistle to them Whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are HONEST The word in the Text i. e. Whatsoever things are Grave or Decent or Agreeable to your most holy Profession Think on these things This then ought to be the Deportment of all Christians all that have taken on them Christ's holy Name but chiefly all Elderly People Their Years call upon them to be Grave countenancing what is Good discountenancing what ever is Evil. Which will shew the inward Good and Godly Temper of their Minds and Spirits The aged Men must be Grave or Serious that is their second Qualification III. They must be Temperate An Aged Man must be a Man of Temper Temper in his Passions He must not be testy morose and froward a Vice to which Old Men are wont to be addicted He must not be a Demea as he in Terence a peevish fretful captious Man He must not be a Nabal as he in the Book of Samuel such a Son of Belial that a Man cannot speak to him There must be a Temper also in his Wrath. He must not let that impotent Passion rule him and carry