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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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to Worship him to give him thanks to put my whole trust in him to call upon him to hono'r his Holy Name and his Word and to serve him truly all the days of my Life And my Duty towards my Neighbour is to love him as my self and to do to all men as I would they should do unto me To love honour and succour my Father and Mother To Honour and obey the King and all that are put in Authority under him To submit my self to all my Governours Teachers Spiritual Pastors and Masters To order my self lowly and reverently to all my betters To hurt no Body by Word or Deed. To be true and just in all my Dealings To bear no Malice nor Hatred in my heart To keep my Hands from picking and Stealing and my Tongue from Evil-Speaking Lying and Slandering To keep my Body in Temperance Soberness and Chastity Not to covet no● desire other mens Goods But to Learn and Labour truly to get min● own living and to do my Duty in that State of Life unto which it shall please God to call me And now I pass on directly to the last thing which I propos'd and that is to lay before you a few General considerations on purpose further to promote the Practice of that Advice which I have already given First Consider how easy t is for you in comparison of some others to be Religious and good Whilst you are untainted whilst the Powers and Faculties of your Souls are Vigorous and Lively whilst you have not accustomed your selves to any evil way whilst you are strangers to the fashionable sins of the Age whilst you have not run with others to the same excess of Riot whilst the Hellish Language of Oaths and Curses is terrible to you and all manner of profaneness appears to you in a Monstrous and ghastly Shape it must needs be easie to restrain you from what you dread and abhor Nay if you have sometimes fallen and receiv'd some few bruises yet how far more easily may you recover your selves than those who for many years have lain wallowing in their filthiness Moreover to your great encouragement consider that now your Souls are active and your limbs strong to run with patience the Holy Race that is set before you and you may well fight with the greatest Assurance the good fight of Faith Now ye are strong and may easily overcome the wicked one 1 John 2. 14. Secondly To move you the more consider how acceptable your early Piety will be to that God which ye Worship Your remembring your Creator in the days of your youth and your first fruits will be a Sacrifice wherewith God will be well pleased Whereas the Oblation only of dry bones and decayed sinews especially such bones as have been drain'd by sin such sinews as have been enfeebl'd by Iniquity will be only an abomination unto the Lord. If ye offer the blind for Sacrifice is it not evil and if ye offer it now unto thy Governour will he be pleased with thee or accept thy Person saith the Lord of Hosts Malac. 1. 8. Now if a Temporal Prince will reject such a present with a most fiery Indignation With what confidence then can we lay such a Sacrifice upon the Altar of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords But this is not your Case at present ye Young men and God Grant that hereafter when old it may never be your Fate Now you need not to doubt but that if you offer up the strength and Beauty of Holiness it will be accepted If now with the wise Virgins you get oyl and trim your Lamps you will ere long be received into the Bride-Grooms Chamber Thirdly Please to consider how much your remaining life depends upon your present Religious Efforts and how gradually you 'l go on when you are once well begun How easily will you damp and dispirit all the enemies to your salvation and under what Discomfiture and despair will you send them away when you baffle and rout them in the first Assaults that they make upon you Nay how much may your early and firm Resolutions tend to the reclaiming of this degenerate Age or at least to the reforming of the next Generation If the skill and conduct of one man made way for his Son to conquer all the parts of the world which he became acquainted with how far then may your united Forces extend to the pulling down of the strong holds of Satan and the subduing of the powers of darkness to the vanquishing of Sin and to the raising and establishing of the Throne of Vertue O consider how far you may spread these Spiritual Victories and Triumphs and may make your Companions and those that come after you more than Conquerors Fourthly please to consider that you notwithstanding all your health and strength may soon be called away to another stage either of endless weal or woe Go and take the Dimensions of the Graves in your Church Yards and you l find many of a shorter size than your selves And I am sure that you had not nay that you have not a more certain Lease of your lives than they had O therefore make no long tarrying to turn unto the Lord your God and put it not of from day to day lest your Fate lest your God come suddainly and snatch you away and there be none to deliver you Consider that Time and Opportunity will soon be no more And therefore instantly make it your business to spend your days to good purpose in reading the Word of God in pious and profitable meditations in reflecting upon and renewing your Baptismal Covenant and in frequent receiving the Holy Communion And above all labour to be true and just and good at your very hearts and Souls and industrious and Useful and benificial in your Generation And strive earnestly to fit and qualify your selves for an Eternity of the purest Pleasures that so you may relish the joys of Heaven whenever you shall be receiv'd into those everlasting mansions and may delightfully feast upon that fulness of joy which is in the presence of God and with continual desire drink of those Rivers of Pleasure which flow at his right hand for evermore And may be meet to be partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in light Col. 1. 12. And in the prospect of these enriching possessions of these never fading Pleasures break off all delays throw aside all hindrances and excuses and say not I will begin to be good when I begin to stoop towards the Grave and when old age tells me that I must soon leave this World then will I prepare for the next and when I feel this earthly Tabernacle to tremble and ready to dissolve and to be taken in pieces then will I seek out for another Fabric an house not made with hands eternal in the Heavens But instead of these uncertain frivolous and foolish Delays to day if you will hear Gods voice harden not your hearts