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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09529	The young man's remembrancer, and Youth's best choice: being an exhortation to conversion, in two anniversary discourses from Eccl. xii. I.	Mead, Matthew, 1630?-1699.	1700 (1700)	Wing M1563A; ESTC R180504	46,254	164

spend thy Youthful Days in thy sensual Delights why then go on and take thy Course but consider were this will end and what follows there is a Reckoning Day a coming thy pleasant Way will have a doleful End though the Beginning may be Sweet the Conclusion will be Bitter for thou must Die e're long nor canst thou say how soon and then thou must answer to God for all thy sinful Courses and sensual Vanities for Know that for all these things God will bring thee to Judgment and therefore Put away Evil from thy Flesh And then he proceeds to Exhort to the Positive Part of Godliness and that in the Words of the Text Remember now thy Creator in the Days of thy Youth He tells you in the Last Words of the former Verse Childhood and Youth are Vanity and the Vanity of it appears in nothing more than in indulging to Sense and Flesh and forgetting God therefore these Words of the Text are the wise Man's Memento to young Ones wherein he gives this seasonable Counsel for the Cure of their Vanities Remember now thy Creator in the Days of thy Youth whilst the Evil Days come not nor the Years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no Pleasure in them In which Words you have an Exhortation to a very concerning Duty and it is backed with a threefold Argument in the Six following Verses In the Duty exhorted to you have Three Things First The Act Remember Secondly The Object to be Remembred Thy Creator Thirdly The Time when he must be Remembred Now. Remember now thy Creator But lest you should think that this now takes in the whole Time of this Life therefore he Excludes the latter Part of Life and Limits this now to the former Part Remember now thy Creator in the Days of thy Youth And then you have a Threefold Argument or Motive upon which the Duty is urged Old Age with its Infirmities Hastening Mortality Approaching And Judgment Ensuing First The Approaching of old Age with the Infirmities that accompany it that we have in those Words While the evil Days come not nor the Years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no Pleasure in them and what these Days and Years are he tells you in the various Allegories in the following Verses While the Sun or the Light or the Moon or the Stars be not Darkned nor the Clouds Return after Rain in the Day when the Keepers of the House shall Tremble and the strong Men Bow themselves and the Grinders Cease and they fa● that Look out at the Windows c. Secondly You have an Argument from Death and Mortality approaching Verse 15. Man goeth to his Long Home Verse 7. Then shall the Dust return to the Earth as it was Then when When the Sun and the Light c. is Darkned when the Keepers of the House Tremble when the strong Men Bow themselves and and the Grinders Cease then shall the Dust return to the Earth as it was Thirdly You have the Judgment ensuing Verse 7. The Spirit shall return to God who gave it it is the Soul that is here intended which is frequently called a Spirit because of its Spiritual and Immaterial Nature as the Body of every one Returns to the Dust so does every Soul Return to God not to God as a Chief Good but to God as a Great Judge not to his Blissful Presence but to his Judicial Presence All Souls do not Return to God to Enjoy him for that is the Portion but of a few but all Return to God to be Judged by him both Good and Bad Saint and Sinner So says the wise Man in the Third Chapter of this Book Verse 17. God shall judge the Righteous and the Wicked for there is a Time there for every Purpose and for every Work so that there is such a Returning of the Soul to God as sets it before his aweful Tribunal where it must be Sentenced to its Everlasting State either to Enjoy God for Ever or to be Everlastingly Shut out of his Presence and Favour so that these are the Arguments to Inforce the Duty in the Text. Old Age is Hastening Death follows it And then comes the Judgment In old Age you will have no list to Remember God in Death you cannot Remember God and in Judgment you must be called to an account for not Remembring God and therefore since it is thus Remember now thy Creator in the Days of thy Youth I shall open the Words and then apply them First I will begin with the Act Remember this is applied sometimes to God he is said to Remember God Remembred Noah Gen. 8.1 He Remembred Abraham Gen. 19.29 He Remembred his Holy Covenant Luke 1.72 But there is to speak properly no such thing in God as Remembring for he that can never Forget cannot be said to Remember But it is properly applied to Man and so to Remember is either To call to Mind some Past or To keep a thing in Mind for the Time to come Sometimes it is to call to Mind something past thus it is said that Peter Remembred the Words of Christ Mat. 26.75 and as it Imports keeping in Mind for the Time to come so it is said Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it Holy Exod. 20.8 To Remember is put here in a double Opposition First It is opposed to a Forgetfulness of the Duty mentioned And Secondly It is opposed to a slight Performance of it Both which are Sin It is a Sin to forget God and it is a Sin to have slight Thoughts of God the Act should be some way answerable to the Object the Great God is thy Maker and he should not be put off with slightly Respects Remember thy Creator The manner in which the Duty is Inforced is such as does import that it ought to be our chief Business God does not use in his Word to put his Memento's upon slight and indifferent Matters but upon such Duties as are Necessary and of the greatest Importance As First To press us to Repentance Rev. 2.5 Remember from whence thou art fallen and repent Ezek. 16.61 Thou shalt Remember thy Ways and be Ashamed Secondly To mind us of our latter End Eccle. 11.8 If a Man Live many Years and Rejoice in them all yet let him Remember the Days of Darkness for they shall be many Thirdly To press upon us the Duty of Sabbath Holiness Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it Holy Exod. 20.8 Fourthly To keep in our Hearts the great Works of Providence Psalm 105.5 Remember the Marvellous Works that he hath done and Mat. 16.9 says Christ Remember the Five Loaves that fed Five Thousand and how many Baskets full he took up Fifthly It is used to incite to a full and compleat Obedience Num. 15.39 Remember all the Commandments of the Lord to do them Sixthly To stir us up to be mindful of himself and therefore this Duty of all the rest is charged both Negatively and Positively Negatively Deut.

Wilderness or a Land of Darkness If so you have some occasion to Revolt and Forget me but if not why say ye We will come no more at thee Jer. 2.31 O what a shame is it that any one should forget God that never did him hurt but good all the Days of his Life Pray Consider that first Question in your Catechism Who made you You once were not and that which once was not could not make it self as Nothing has no Existence so it can have no Operation Nothing cannot be a Creator to every one of you You derive your Beings from God It is he that made us and not we our selves Psalm 100.3 therefore you are called the Offspring of God Acts 17.28 In him we live move and have our Being for we are his Offspring Now what a shame is it that a Creature that is made by God should forget his Maker God complains of this Isa 51.13 They forgat the Lord their Maker and should he be forgotten that gave us our Being Honour thy Father and thy Mother it is a Law written in Nature they deserve the highest Respect and Reverence because they were the Instruments of our Being Now God is much more the Author of our Being than he that Begat us or than she that Brought us forth Thou art he says David that took me out of the Womb thou art my God from my Mother's Belly Parents are but the Second Causes of our Being God is the First Cause and all Second Causes depend upon the First in their Being and Operation therefore Man is nothing in our Production if compared with God and shall this God be forgotten and sinned against He calls Heaven and Earth to witness against such Rebels Isa 1.2 Hear O Heaven and give Ear O Earth for the Lord hath said I have nourished and brought up Children and they have Rebelled against me Heaven and Earth will cry out against you if he that made us be not remembred and owned by us Secondly Consider what a Price God has put into your Hands for the good of your Souls He hath not only made you but he hath made Seasons of Grace for you Seasons for the getting the Knowledge of God in Christ Seasons for getting an Interest in Christ He has given you his Sabbaths his Word his Ordinances a Powerful Means and Ministry Nay many Young Ones have felt somewhat of the Power of these things God has been at Work with them betimes their Hearts have been touched the Spirit of God hath wrought in them some Convictions of Sin and of their lost undone State O what a Price has God put into your Hands and how can you answer the neglect of it What says Solomon Prov. 17.16 Wherefore is there a Price put into the Hand of a Fool to get Wisdom seeing he hath no heart to it He that hath a Price put into his Hands to get Wisdom and hath no Desire in his Heart to it that Man is a Fool God says so He is a Fool And as he is so now in the Judgment of others so he will be so one Day in his own It will be a Sword in his Heart to consider I might have had God for my God but I forgat him I might have had an Interest in the blessed Redeemer but I neglected it I might have been Saved but I let slip all these Opportunities that God put into my Hands I have now wofully destroyed a Precious Soul by my Impenitent continuance in my Cursed Lusts against the Calls and Counsels of God It is an awakening Passage Eccles 8.6 Because to every Purpose there is Time and Judgment therefore the Misery of Man is Great upon him Therefore Wherefore VVhy because he hath not Judgment to discern the fittest Opportunity for every Purpose Many Young Ones O how do they purpose that they will seek God hereafter How do they purpose to mind their Salvation One purposes a New Life and a Better Course and God has given every one of you time for this but they want Wisdom to know the Time and so the Opportunity is lost and gone and they are miserable for ever Because to every Purpose there is Time and Judgment therefore the Misery of Man is great Sirs Consider it Young Ones how will your fruitless Repentance begin when your Opportunities are past and gone then you will see your Folly At his Latter End he shall be a Fool He was a Fool at first but he shall see it at last at his Latter End he shall be convinced of his Folly Thirdly Young Ones you that now forget God and slight Religion and indulge to your Lusts let me tell you you are a Judgmen to the Nation a Judgment and a Plague to the Land I have formerly said it to you and I say it again the Youth of a Nation are always a great Good or a great Mischief to the Nation they are either the Hope or the Plague of the Land When Young Ones are Serious and mind God and their Souls when the Word of God is Precious to them to Awaken and Convert them to Season their Hearts with Wisdom to Know and Remember God to Seek after Christ to Honour Religion by a Sober and Holy Conversation such a Race of Youth are a Blessing in any Age they are a Blessing of God to a Land But when the Youth of a Nation cast off Religion cast off all Duty to God and Man and all Sobriety and Vertue and grow Proud Profligate Profane tainted with all manner of Wickedness even to Atheism it self What shall we say then Then I say this is a sad sign of some Judgment of God coming upon the Land and indeed we have many Young Ones in this Day such Monsters in Wickedness as hath not been known in any Age such Young Swearers that can scarce speak plain Young Sabbath-breakers Young Blasphemers Young Atheists never any Age produced the like and for accompanying with Harlots and all manner of Uncleanness that is become a Fashion Therefore I tell you and I tell you from the Word of the Lord and I beg you would Consider it there is some sore Judgment of God near at hand I tell you the truth it is near and hastens greatly a Day of Trouble and Distress a a Day of Wasting and Desolation therefore my Brethren I speak it with an Aking Heart England is now big with such a Brood as will Eat out our Bowels the Children will Destroy the Mother therefore Pray hearken to a word of Exhortation and not from me but from the Lord it is the Exhortation in the Text O Remember your Creator now in the Days of your Youth Now if ever now or never now in the Days of your Youth As ever you would have Good Times as ever you would have God own this Nation as ever you would have the Gospel continued in the midst of you O Remember your Creator First Remember how he Created you in his own Image every one