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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

utterly shut o● of our thoughts therefore says David Psal 119.55 I have remembred thy Name O Lord and have kept thy Law Thus you see how much this Remembring thy Creator carries in it to wit Knowledge of God Faith in God Repentance toward God Love to God And Obedience to the Will of God When you Know God so as to Believe in him and Believe in God so as to Repent of Sinning against him and Repent so as to express your Love to him and Love God so as to conform to his Will and keep his Commandments then is this Duty done as it ought and you therein answer the Call in the Text Remember thy Creator And that brings me to the Second thing The Object to be remembred thy Creator Remember thy Creator In the Hebrew Text it is Remember thy Creators in the Plural Number so it is used frequently Gen. 1.1 Gods Created the Heaven and the Earth so Isa 54.5 Thy Makers is thy Husband in the Plural so Job 35.10 None saith where is God my Makers And its being thus Plurally expressed it is very Emphatical for it points us to Father Son and Spirit all the Three made Man they were our Makers The Father made Man Gen. 6.7 The Lord said I will Destroy Man whom I have Created The Son made Man Col. 1.16 By him were all things Created in Heaven and Earth The Holy Spirit made Man Job 33 4. The Spirit of God hath made me and the Breath of the Almighty hath given me Life There is a great Truth which will give you to understand this I say there is a great Truth in that Maxim amongst Divines That the Works of the Trinity ad extra towards the Creatures are undivided All the Three Father Son and Spirit sate in Counsel to make Man Let us make Man in our Image in the Plural Number Gen. 1.22 And it is very observable that though our Makers here are expressed Plurally yet the Image is put in the Singular Number Let us make Man in our Image not in our Images but in our Image to note that though the Persons are Three yet the Image is but One They have but one Nature and so are but one God therefore it is said Mal. 2.13 Have we not all one Father Hath not one God Created us Father Son and Spirit and yet but one God and shall we not Remember him that made us Remember thy Creator It is a Term that gives a Claim God is thy Creator and that gives him a Right to thee All Souls are mine as the Soul of the Father so also the Soul of the Son is mine Ezek. 18.4 The Soul that is the Person a Part being put for the Whole frequently in Scripture Let every Soul be Subject to the Higher Powers All Persons are mine whether Father or Son whether Old or Young I am their Creator I am their Common Father and this gives God a just Right to thy Soul to thy Body to thy whole Person to thy Life to thy Strength to thy Talents to all thou Art and all thou Hast and to all thou canst Do for he is thy Creator He doth not say here Remember thy God but Remember thy Creator God is not every one's God we have lost him by the Fall that Relation is cut off by Sin till Grace restore it But though he be not every one's God yet he is every one's Creator Fallen Creatures are his Creatures still as much as ever and therefore thy Remembring him as thy Creator is that that brings thee to Claim him as thy God Thou owest thy Time thy whole Time to him for thou art Created every Day by him for Preservation is a continual Creation Thou owest thy Self and Service to this Creator As thou art what thou art by his Power and Goodness so thou oughtest to live to his Glory He made thee after his own Image and as thou art hereby more capable so thou art more obliged to Remember him and Honour him Thirdly Here is the limitation of the Time when he must be Remembred that is now Remember now thy Creator which now sometimes used in a more Extended Sense and sometimes in a more Restrained Sense First In a more Extended Sense it is taken for the present Life all the Time a Man lives in this World and then it is opposed to Death Death is no time to Remember God in so says the Psalmist Psal 6.5 In Death there is no Remembrance of thee in the Grave who shall give thee thanks It is the same with that of the Wise Man Eccles 9.10 There is no Work nor Device nor Knowledge nor Wisdom in the Grave whether thou goest that is when Death comes it cuts off all our Opportunities There is no Work in the Grave that is no place of Business there is none can be done by us and therefore there is none required of us And as there is no Work so there is no Device as there is nothing to be done to procure Salvation so there is no Devising any way to escape Damnation you cannot lye and think there He returns to his Earth in that very Day his thoughts perish Psal 146.4 Nor is there any Knowledge there either of Good or Evil For the Dead know not any thing Eccl. 9.5 And if there be no Work nor Device nor Knowledge there can be no Wisdom Wisdom is profitable to Direct but there is none of this in the Grave Wisdom lyes in Chusing a Right End and Pursuing it by Due Means but there is none of this in the Grave Wisdom lyes in finding and imbracing the Chief Good but there is none of this Wisdom in the Grave When Death comes it puts an end to all your Opportunities In Scripture Opportunity is often called a Door 1 Cor. 16.9 A great Door is opened to me 2 Cor. 2.12 A Door was opened to me of the Lord. When God sends and makes way for the Gospel and inlarges the Hearts of Ministers to Preach the Gospel and opens the Hearts of People to receive the Gospel then a Door is opened Now if Death shuts this Door it puts an end to all our Opportunities And is there not a time coming when this Door this open Door will be shut Pray Read Luke 13.24 25. Strive to Enter in at the strait Gate for many will seek to Enter in and shall not be able when once the Master of the House is risen up and hath shut to the Door and ye begin to stand without the Door and knock saying Lord Lord open to us he shall answer and say to you I know you not whence ye are the Master of the House is risen up and the Door of Opportunity is shut So Matt. 25.10 it is said of the Foolish Virgins While they went to Buy Oyl the Bridegroom comes and they that were ready went in with him and the Door was shut a sad word Now you Read in Scripture of several Doors which will all be shut in that