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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60161	The youngmans guide in his way to heaven: or, A cabinet of rich jewels, left and bequeathed to all young persons by the reverend Mr. John Shrenock. B.D. Who dyed in the flower of his age, lying but seven days on his death bed; during which space of time, he wrought this sermon: desiring it might be preached at his funeral, and published for the benefit of all persons both young and old. With his last prayers. Licensed and entred according to order.	Shrenock, John.	1680 (1680)	Wing S3695A; ESTC R219628	11,624	26

The Youngmans Guide in his way to HEAVEN OR A CABINET of Rich Jewels left and Bequeathed to all Young Persons by the Reverend Mr. John Shrenock B. D. Who dyed in the flower of his Age lying but seven days on his Death bed during which space of time he wrought this Sermon desiring it might be Preached at his Funeral and published for the benefit of all persons both young and old With his last Prayers Licensed and Entred according to order Printed for J. Conyers at the Black Raven in Hol 〈…〉 Church and Th●●●●● Inn 2. Chron. 34.2 Whilst he was yet young he began to seek after the God of David his Father THis whole Chaper with the next ar● nothing but a recital of the Acts of good King Josiah he was a holy and good King as any we read of in the book of God and this is a commendation of him that he sought the Lord God betimes he was good when almost all were bad were turned into Idolatry He in the twelfth year of his Reign began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places and the Groves the Carved Images and Molten Images and they brake down the Altar of Baal in his presence ver 3 4. And when he had destroyed all the Idol● Worship he set up the worship of the true God and repaired the house of the Lord Great was his hatred to Idolatry as you may read at large in the remaining part of the Chapter And as of all examples the best ought to be followed and imitated so I here present you with a most excellent pattern and that is of good King Josiah Whilst he was yet young he sought the Lord God From which words we shall shew you that it the duty of young men and young women to seek the Lord in their youth and to be really good betimes Reason 1. Because youth is the fittest time Remember thy Creator in the days of thy Youth saith Solomon Eccles 12.1 Not a few spar● hours as one well notes but days every da● working it must be in the days of thy yout● before the evil day comes that is before ag● and sickness seise on thee and thou be mad● unfit for so great a work The 2 Reason is because youth is a chusing time Oh when thou art a chusing a fit objec● for thy eye or heart oh then think upon God and consider if he be not the best choice 〈◊〉 shall shew you those excellencies that are in God and Christ that thou shouldest chuse him above all others 1. Are you poor he is rich art thou naked Christ hath white Raiment to cloath thee ar● thou spiritually blind he hath an eye-salve to enlighten thee art thou in great straits h● hath wisdom to counsel thee art thou unrighteous unholy he will give holiness and sanctification to thee art thou an hungry o● thirsty he will be the bread of life and fee● thee and wine to satisfie thy thirsty soul ar● thou sick he will be thy Physician in a word he will be All and in all to thee thou shal● want nothing that is good for thee Thus having chosen Christ to be thine thou hast go● the pearl of great price the richest Jewel that that cannot be overvalu'd therefore oh young men get Christ and make him your choice and you have all that can be desired Secondly young women let me intreat you to make the same choice that Mary did Lu. 10.42 But one thing is needful Mary hath chosen the good part that shall not be taken from her she had chosen Christ she had got a saving interest in Christ which is this one thing necessary Plutarch writes of Hannibal that when he could have taken the great City of Rome he would not and when he would he could not so many in their young years when they might have mercy and grace would not and in their old Age when they would have Christ pardon peace and Heaven they cannot Thirdly it was the commendation of Josiah that he served the Lord betimes And Timothy that he know the Scriptures from a Child And Obediah that he feared the Lord from his Youth 1 Kings 8.12 Again Remember thy Creator presently instantly for thou knowest not whether thou shall ever attain to age thou know'st not what a day may bring forth therefore remember to know him to love him to desire delight to depend upon him to get an interest in him and to live unto him remembring to walk with him First remember the Father to know him and to be inwardly acquainted with him Secondly remember the Son to believe and trust in him to imbrace him and give up thy self wholly unto him Remember the holy Spirit so as to hear and obey his Voice and feel his Presence and to experience his Influence and thus thou oughtest to remember thy Creator Saith Seneca though Death be before the old Man's face yet he may be as near the young Man's back Man's life is but a shadow that soon passeth away and St. Austin doubteth which to call it A dying life or living death Alas how many youngmen when God calls for the Primrose of their youth and vigor put him off with the trembling joynts of Old age Never had youth better opprotunities of being good than now in these golden Sun-shining days of the Gospel wherein God and Christ and the holy Spirit are offer'd in the Gospel to sinners nay the greatest of sinners that will come in and submit to the Scepter of Christ and be saved Oh young man nay all persons remember in this thy day the things that belong to thy peace before they be hid from thy eyes and thou go hence be no more seen Remember that God will not always strive with thee Gen. 6. by his holy spirit God gives every man and woman a day of grace and if thou improve not that thou maiest be undone for ever therefore consider Reader seriously on these things Oh consider young Men young Women all persons in general that this is the acceptable time this is thy day of grace even this day that is before thee now or never The Ancients saith Erasmus paint Time with an hairy Forehead but bald behind to signifie that whilst a man hath opportunity before him he may lay hold of it but if he suffer it to slip away he cannot pull it back again 4. Consider of this young men young women you are equally concern'd Now in the flower of your days remember your Creator and having begun well continue in well doing knowing your Labour shall not be vain in the Lord pray and pray earnestly to him for grace and his holy spirit to mortifie your corrupt lusts and affections you have a great many enemies the Flesh the World and the Devil and against these must thou be always striving and keeping a strict watch or thou wilt be overcome I shall endeavour to set before thee some of those sins that daily attend youth

and the first is Pride and it is a reigning sin in youngmen young women at this day I think never more than now First Pride of heart Secondly Pride of Apparel Oh 't is rare saith one to see young men humble and watchful and to see an old man contented and cheerful Saint Bernard saith That Pride is the Rich Mans Cousin but Experience speaks it to be the young Men and young Womens Cousin God had three Sons saith one Lucifer Adam and Christ the first aspired to be like God in Power and was thrown from Heaven The second like him in knowledge and was drove out of Eden when young And the third was like God in Goodness Mercy and Humillity and by so doing obtained an everlasting inheritance Remember this young men get to be be humble and keep humble for the humble God will teach Pride is a great evil and reigneth more in young men than ever Consider and leave it least God leave you and that for ever What evils did Belshazzar Haman and Herods Pride bring them to Young Women let me intreat you in the bowels of love and out of compassion to your immortal souls that our Saviour so dearly bought with his most precious blood to leave off those patchings and paintings which are the Devils badgges O how like Monsters do too many Women in our times make themselves in their false Hair as Towers and Bulls as they call them and other ridiculous Fashions and gaudy Lascivious Attire not becoming Women professing Godliness 1. Tim. 2.7.8 saith St. Paul Likewise also the Women that they adorn themselves in modest Apparel with shamefacedness and sobriety not with broidered hair or Gold or Pearls or costly Array Oh how contrary to this Rule do the Women of our times walk Read the 16. of Ezekiel throughout and Deut. 22. ver 5. to the end of the Chapter And Isaiah 3.6 to the end Tertullians Counsel to young Men and Women in this To cloath your selves with the Silk of Piety and with the Sattin of Sanctity and with the Purple of Modesty so shall you have God for your Suiter The second sin of youth is unlawful Pleasures hear what Solomon the wisest of Men saith Rejoyce O young Man in thy youth and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy Youth and walk in the way of thy heart and in the sight of thine Eyes but remember for all these things God will bring thee to Judgment Solomon doth not comply with Youth to encourage them to sin but by this way confutes them of their folly as much as to say Thou mayest if thou wilt take thy pleasure and ease and satisfie thy vain appetite with all manner of pleasures that this world will afford but remember that bitterness will attend thy pleasures God will bring to light thy deeds of Darkness those sins that thou hast committed in secret shall be brought to light and ●ring thee to Judgment where thou must give an account of every idle word and wicked action and then what will these pleasures profit thee by the committing of which thou hast lost Heaven and Happiness and thy immortal Soul I have read of a young Man that was very much giv'n to pleasure he standing by St. Ambrose and seeing his most excellent Death turn'd to the other young men by him and said Oh that I might live with you and dye with him Again there is a Curse of insatiableness in the Creature Eccles 1.8 The Eye is not saiisfied with seeing nor the Ear with hearing Pleasure saith one is a beautiful Harlot sitting in her Charriot whose Wheels are Pride and Gluttony Lust and Idleness the two Horses are Prosperity and Abundance the two Drivers Idleness and Security her Attendants are Grief Guilt and too late Repentance Death and Ruin Many strong men have been destroyed by her but never any received full satisfaction and content in her Therefore O young Men avoid this Harlot come not near her door St. Augustine before his Conversion could not tell how to live without those Pleasure which he much delighted in but when his nature was changed and his heart graciously turn'd to God Oh how sweet is it saith he to be without those former sweet Pleasures A truly enlightned soul that hath tasted of the pleasures that are in the enjoyment of Christ Oh how bitter are all other pleasures to him The third sin of Youth is rashness They saith Aristotle know little and fear less Saint Paul exhorts young men to be sober minded and discreet how many young men have had large Estates and by their Folly Rashness and Extravagancy have brought themselves to Poverty Rashness unmans a man and will put him upon things below manhood Should I discover the many evils that attend Rashness which usually Reigns in Youth I should exceed my bounds but let this suffice and let all young men decline and wholly forsake it The fourth sin attending Youth is mocking and Scoffing at Religion and those that are holier than themselves Job 30 3 4. But now saith he they that are younger than I have me in derision Doth not this age abound with too many Scoffers at Religion I leave any indifferent party to judge The Athenians scoffing at Silasis Wife had like to cause the destruction of their City her Husband was so incensed against them I am afraid that our Atheism and scoffing at Religion and good men hath ruined our City Felix for one malicious scoff did nothing day and night but vomit blood till his unhappy soul was separated from his wretched body The fifth Sin attending Youth is Lust and Wantonness which caused St. Paul to admonish Timothy to flee worldly Lust notwithstanding Timothy was a chast Youth but St. Paul admonisheth him knowing the temptations that attend Youth much more need have we to warn the Youth of our days to flee those youthful Lust that so unman them and make them so like to the beasts that perish Oh how do too many in this Nation in this City in these Subburbs instead of going to hear a Sermon on the Lords day walk in the Fields or lie in an Alehouse or Tavern nay I am afraid some too many go to the cursed Harlots houses and there spend their time but surely destruction will certainly attend such practices The poor youngman that murthered his fellow servant Thomas Savage by name confessed that the sin of Whoredom and Sabbath-breaking brought him to the Gallows Young man take heed by this sad example now in time lest God make thee the next for great and grievous is this sin in the eyes of God and he will severely punish it upon all such as follow it as we see daily he hath done on several Persons Sixthly another grievous sin too much practised by youth is swearing how too common is it in many places in City and Country by men women and children notwithstanding the foulness vileness and wickedness of this sin and so offensive to