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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55343	A directory for youth Through all the difficulties attending that state of life. Or a discouse of youthful lusts. In which the nature and dinds of them are described, and remedies against them laid down. First preached to young people, and now published at their request. By Samuel Pomfret, minister of the gospel.	Pomfret, Samuel, d. 1722.	1693 (1693)	Wing P2798; ESTC R224107	117,456	254

c. The truth is your youthful Lusts in Prayer do render you most abominable and odious in the sight of God for they do as it were challenge and bid defiance to God whence else are those thunders of his provoked Majesty in 1. Mala. 14. 7. Jer. 9 15 16. 33. Ezek. 31 32 33. Chap. 14. from the 1 st verse to the 9. To go and Pray with the Idol of my Lust in my heart is a mocking God and God won't be mocked nay let me tell you God's anger is increased by such Prayers and then I appeal to you what Good can be looked for from such Prayers alas rather Confusion than Conversion O young People pray remember it your Lusts will not only blunt and take off the edge of Prayer that it shall never do any execution but they turn thy very Prayers into sin and how likely that is to turn thy heart God wards judge ye Thus I have shewed you how your youthful Lusts hinder Conversion as they oppose the means of it Were there a demand made why Consideration and Prayer and othe● Godly means should be so irksome and bu● densom Is God so undelightful an obje●● to approach unto that you cannot endu●● his presence or are so soon weary in hol● Exercises like a man under a heavy loa● Oh no to draw nigh to God in Prayer is th● joy of holy Souls but they are those Lu●● within that make it to our corrupt Nature so unpleasant and tedious And thus have shewed you how they oppose th● means of Conversion on our part and ther●fore it is a duty of such special concern me● for young men to flee youthful Lusts becau●● of the malignity of their influence expresse first in that they hinder Conversion No● I come to the second Head to shew yo● the malignity of their influence as they hu●ry Youth into grievous Temptations 2. A second particular of the maligni●● of youthful Lusts inflence lieth in this vi● In that they hurry Youth into grievo●● Temptations There are two sorts of Temptations th●● we read of in Scripture the Apostle Jam●● treats of both in the 1. chap. ver 2. and ●● 14. The former sort are no other than Affl●ctions which are for the probation an● tryal of the Christian's Faith and Patience and with respect to these the Apostle saith My Brethren count it all Joy when you f●● into divers Temptations ver 2. And Mos●● saith that God tempted Abraham 22. Gen. 1. That is God proved and tryed his Servant Abraham's Faith But now the other sort of Temptations are no other than solicitations and seducements to Sin and with respect to these the Apostle saith in the 13. and 14. verses Let no man say when he is tempted I am tempted of God for God cannot be tempted with Evil neither tempteth he any man But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own Lust and enticed then when Lust hath conceived it bringeth forth Sin and Sin when it is finished bringeth forth Death And hence our blessed Lord teacheth us to watch and pray that we enter not into Temptation that is to sin for in this sense is the word used in Scripture as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or to try is the proper word for the other temptation so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the proper word for temptation to sin And of this sort of temptation it is that youthful Lusts are both the Fons and Fomes the breeder and feeder the food and fuel the mother and nurse they do both by force and fraud violently hale and hurry and cunningly entice and draw young ones to sin The Devil may flatter you but he cannot force you it 's your Lust that opens the Door or temptation could never enter It hath been an old practice of Sinners when they fall into sin to accuse and lay all the blame either upon the Devil or the instrument that provoked them Oh sa● they the Devil owed them a spight and no● he hath paid it not considering that th● true procreating cause of Sin is a mans ow● Lust It must be own'd that this World full of Snares and Temptations to with draw Youth from God's house to the Al● houses and there provoke them to Intemp●rance and to Gaming houses and the● provoke them to consume their Estates an● precious time and to filthy houses an● there provoke them to destroy themselv●● for the sake of brutish pleasures In this sen●● it is true homo homini daemon One is a Devil to another i. e. tempters to Sin But a these are but external movers the princip●● Agent is thy own Lust within As one saith Temptation is a Siege Satan is the Enem● without the Walls labouring to force a● entrance our Lusts are the Traytors with in that hold correspondency with t●● Enemy without and open the Gate of th● Soul to receive him They are our ow● Lusts that go over to Satan in the day ●● battel and fight against our Souls 1 Pet. 2. O young men your Lusts are like the me●● of Keilah to David in the day of temptation 1 Sam. 23. 11. Poor David was hate● and hunted up and down by Saul who sough● his Life at length he cometh to Keilah presently it was told Saul that David w●● come to Keilah David enquireth of the Lor● Whether the men of Keilah would deliver him up into the hands of his Enemy Saul And the Lord said They will deliver thee up Whereupon David presently fled and so escaped Thus if you follow not this counsel to flee your youthful lusts they will certainly deliver you up in the hour of temptation that you will not be able to deliver your own Soul they will betray you as Dalilah did Sampson and let in the uncircumcised Philistines upon you When Judas his heart was set upon the lust of Covetousness how miserably was he overcome with many desperate Temptations he will betray the precious Life and Blood of the Son of God for thirty pieces of Silver and afterward you know what became of him so true is that in the 1 Tim. 6. 9 10. They that will be rich saith the Apostle whose Hearts run after their Covetousness fall into Temptation and a Snare into many foolish and hurtful Lusts So when Balaam's Heart was set upon this Lust he will rise early run and ride till he is weary that he might Curse Israel at length he becomes through his Lust more desperate and senseless of God's fury than the dumb Ass he dissembles his Conscience coins cunning Evasions O the malignity of lusts influence Suppose it be the Lust of Uncleanness what pernicious temptation doth this cast many young men upon frequenting Satan's Seminaries those Chappels of Hell Stews and Plays wher● oftentimes are Challenges Stabs Comba●● Blood and Murder thus have many ventured as deep as Hell to gratifie their filthy Lusts Hence they are said to draw Iniqui●● as with Cart-ropes Isa 5. 8. and that the wearied themselves