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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79559	The Christians daily monitor to the performance of personal and relative duties With a resolution of some cases of conscience. Published for the benefit of young persons; By Joseph Church. Together with so much of Mr. Samuel Hierons catechisme, as concerns second table duties.	Church, Josiah.	1669 (1669)	Wing C3986B; ESTC R230947	48,548	166

there is only this difference between a youth and an old man That the one must dye through the necessity of nature the other may die through the violence of a disease There is nothing so powerful to hold men off from sin as the meditation of death There are saith one two sorts of trees God quickly cuts down old trees that bear no fruit and young trees that bear evil fruit 4. Labour to work on thy heart the Meditation how little the world bids for thy soul and what inconsiderable things those vanities and pleasures are young persons are so much taken with Many are but the pleasures of fancy at the best they are but the pleasure of sense It is very little that young persons know and understand of this and that makes them so mad after them and so desirous to taste and try them We please Children with bables and they are no better the world puts you off with such things as dare not endure a scrutiny at the bar of Reason What do these things contribute to the bettering your beings and satisfying your appetites I mean to the giving you true content Alas they are things that perish in the using and it will not be long e're you your selves will be of another mind Now the more you understand youthful vanities the more carefull you will be to pass that age with as much innocence as may be and to avoid those sins you must commit before you can come at them and you will be afraid to venture much in the cracking that shell that will yield you nothing but matter for repentance 5. Take heed you be not ashamed of your Dutie Satan doth many times abuse that natural modestie that is in your Age to stave you off from Religion telling you you will be but laughed at and scorned for your pains But learn to be ashamed of nothing but sin and this is that modesty that is alwayes the companion of comliness and beauty to be ashamed to do evil But when a man hath done evil not to be ashamed this is that which hath the greatest deformity in it He that is ashamed of doing good it is to be feared will grow past ●hame in doing evil It is the common excuse I shall be laught at and I am ashamed But if you be derided for your piety and singularity in Godliness because you will not run with the wicked to the same excess of ryot so were your betters both Prophets and Apostles nay the Lord of both Jesus Christ himself was despised and mocked But who are they that deride you none but wicked men And will it not be more grievous to have God laugh at your calamity then for men to deride your piety Chose whether you will be ashamed of Christ and his words in an evil Adulterous Generation that you may avoid the reproach of the ungodly or whether you will own Christ now that he may own you when he comes in the Glory of his Father bringing all his Holy Angels with him 6. Look well to your companie let your delight be in the Saints that are on the earth and in them that excell in vertue Young trees seldome grow straight in hedge-rows nor young persons good in evil company Where your own corruption would draw you one mile your company will draw you two● as a mans company is so is he Prov. 13.20 Ch. 28.7 14. §. The Character of a wise Chrishian 1. He takes the word along with him in all his concernments and actions he that steers his course by any other rule is like a man that leaves the Pole-star and sails by a Meteor Read Psal 119.98 99 100. 2. He doth above all things labour to ●lease God All wisdome without this ● naught and rotten but to make the pleasing God our first and chief car eis ●he truest wisdom 3. He is careful to secure the main The Serpents wisdome is to save his head And a Christians wisdome is to save his soul 4. He doth all things with a plain ho●est sincere upright heart he main●ains the Doves innocency with the Ser●ents policy Mat. 10.16 True wisdom is a pure chast Virgin wisdom ●hat will not mix and blend with world●y and carnal policy he knows that honesty is the best policy and hath the advantage of all things 2 Cor. 1.12 5. He exercises a holy Government ●ver his passions for there is nothing ●peaks a man further from wisdome ●hen inordinate affections Wisdome is ●he ballast of the mind that keeps it steady If all Government be the result of wisdom much more must the Government of a mans self speak him in possession of true wisdom 6. His eyes are in his head He carefully discerns between good and evil between things and things between man and man that he may approve what is good and reject what is evil for otherwise the knowledge of good and evil is not true wisdom He is careful to aptly fit means to the end The folly of men in the false Church is they set up other means then God hath appointed and the folly of men in the true Church is they seperate the end and the means and think they may come to holiness without happiness But a wise Christian knows as there is no coming to the end but by the means so no means which bring us to the end but such as are of Gods appointing 8. He is careful to time all his actions and in order to it to observe and improve all opportunities because to all things there is a time and season that renders them beautifull and facile which if slipt things become doubly difficult and sometimes impossible ●on if it be struck while it is hot you ●ay work it to any figure so it is ●n matters of Religion There are golden moments that a wise Christian will observe and redeem 9. He doth consider with himself what will be the issue and event of things A wise man understands consequences True wisdom Janus like looks backward and forward it hath eyes before and behind Every wise man holds intelligence with time past by memory with time present by prudent circumspection with time to come by providence labouring to fore-see what such and such things will end in Thus God himself to keep our first Parents in integrity gave them the commination In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye expecting that in wisdome they should discern what the event and issue of disobedience would be 10. He doth provide for his latter end This is a great point of wisdome Deut. 32.29 One of the greatest perfections a man attains unto is wisdome The proper act of wisdome is consideration the chiefest point of consideration is our latter end every man must dye and it is not an easie thing to dye well and therefore it is wisdom to dye daily in meditation and preparation that when that time comes we may have nothing to do but to dye §. 15. Why are those that have received Grace