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A93053 Advice to young persons, relating both to faith & practice contain'd in some plain directions how to demean themselves : together with some few motives to the observation of what is here recommended. Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696. 1698 (1698) Wing S3034A; ESTC R42460 16,872 50

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ADVICE TO Young Persons Relating both to Faith Practice Contain'd in some Plain Directions how to Demean themselves Together with some few Motives to the Observation of what is here recommended Wherewithal shall a Young Man cleanse his way by taking heed thereto according to thy Word Psal 119. 9. London Printed for Brabazon Aylmer at the Three Pidgeons against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil Price 2d To his much Honour'd Patron The Author THo' it is our great Calamity to live in a most corrupt Age Yet by the Influence of the All-wise and All powerful God who can derive good out of Evil you are so Prudent as to make an Advantage of it and to raise the value of your Vertue and to add to the Lustre and Worth of your Reputation and Family by being untainted in the midst of most dangerous Temptations SIR I might tell the World that the following Lines were drawn as a faint Copy from the fair Original which you give and that the ensuing Precepts are taken from your Pattern But lest I should call up the Blood into your Cheeks by offering Violence to your singular Modesty or throw my self under the Suspicion of Flattery I will convert my just Praises of you into earnest Prayers for you that that good God who hath hitherto preserv'd you would still preserve you that you may go on by an Vnspotted Life still to glorify him and by your most agreeable Temper to win over others to Piety and Vertue and to answer the Care and Kindness of that Learned and Worthy Person by whom your tender Mind was inform'd and your early Manners cultivated from whom in your Minority I receiv'd the largest share of what I have and so stand perpetually oblig'd to return the most grateful Acknowledgment And lastly That you may grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ until you come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ This is the earnest Prayer of Sir Your most Obliged Most devoted and Most Humble Servant ADVICE TO Young Persons FOrasmuch as 't is generally acknowledg'd that to perswade Young Persons to be Dutiful and Good would prove an Effectual Means to recover Souls out of the hands of Satan to reform the World and to retrieve Religion and Vertue therefore this small Treatise is sent abroad on purpose to exhort and if it be possible for it to perswade those who in their younger days are more especially beset with Temptations and more easily invited into a compliance with them that they should by God's Grace preserve their standing Or if fal'n that they should speedily rescue themselves out of their Slavery and henceforward fear the Lord always and keep his Commandments And may that same Good God who puts into our hearts good Desires by his continual help make us to bring them to good Effect through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen First then Let me perswade young Persons to lay such a steady and Unshaken Foundation of Faith that the Gates of Hell may never prevail against it For them who design to answer the main End of Christianity this Advice is always seasonable But never was this Advice more seasonable than it is in our present Age An Age wherein almost every particular Person is ready to broach some particular Opinion Insomuch that the old Land-marks of Faith are removed and the main Principles of the Gospel of Grace and Salvation by Christ doubted of disputed and denied O let it be your great concern then First To believe in God the Father who hath made you and all the World Secondly in God the Son who hath redeemed you and all mankind Thirdly in God the Holy Ghost who sanctifieth you and all the Elect People of God First then let it be your Concern to believe in God the Father who by the Son Heb. 1. 2. and by the Efficacy of the Holy Ghost Gen. 1. 2. Made the whole World Heaven and Earth and all created Beings which are contained therein And upon this Belief let it be your Business to give God the Father that Reverence that is due unto him as our Wonderful Creator This is that great Lord who made Heaven and Earth and the Sea and all that in them is Acts. 4. 24. This is our Father which is in Heaven Mat. 6. 9. In his Hand are all the Corners of the Earth and the strength of the Hills is his also the Sea is his and he made it and his hands prepar'd the dry Land And therefore O come let us Worship and fall down and kneel before him Psal 95. 3. And say with the Psalmist I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy works and that my soul knoweth right well Psal 139. 14. Secondly You are stedfastly to believe in God the Son For that he is truly God the Apostle expresly declares Rom. 9. 5. where speaking of Christ he saith that he is over all God Blessed for ever and so St. John we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ this is the true God and Eternal life 1 John 5. 20. But we are not only to believe this Son to be God but also that he redeem'd us and all mankind And that this Son of God paid the Price of Redemption for all Mankind who can doubt that believes the Scripture for there is one Mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus who gave himself a Ransom for all 1 Tim. 2. 5 6. And again he tasted Death for every man Heb. 2. 9. And here common Gratitude prompts and directs you to your Duty For since ye were bought with a Price even with the Price of the most precious Blood of the Son of God You are strongly oblig'd to glorify God in your Bodies and in your Spirits which are his 1 Cor. 6. 20. Thirdly You are faithfully to believe in God the Holy Ghost who sanctifies you and all the elect People of God that the Holy Ghost is God is plain from Acts the 5th verses the 3 d. and the 4th in the 3 d. verse St Peter propos'd this Question Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost and because Ananias thus lied to the Holy Ghost he tells him verse the 4th Thou hast not lied unto Men but unto God Nay before that when the Pharisees upon our Saviours casting out a Devil ascrib'd the operation to Belzebub the Prince of Devils our Saviour call'd this Sin that Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost which shall never be forgiven By which words the most Learned and Reverend Bishop Pearson observ'd amongst several other Arguments to that purpose that it appeareth that there is a Sin or Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost distinct from all other Sins and Blasphemies committed against God the Father or the Son of God that this Sin hath an Aggravation added unto it beyond other Sins and Blasphemies But if the Holy Spirit were no Person the Sin could not