Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	day_n	heart_n	youth_n	1,554	5	9.4723	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64977	The best gift, or God's call upon young men for their hearts Delivered in a sermon to young men. By Thomas Vincent, minister sometime of Maudlins Milkstreet, London.	Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678.	1672 (1672)	Wing V427; ESTC R222561	16,894	33

unto God 4. You that give away your Hearts from God are guilty of great folly you are hereby not only unjust towards God but you are injurious towards your selves God hath not need of your Hearts but you have need to give them to him your loss is great by with-holding your Hearts from God you lose the heart of God which you should have in exchange you lose the favour of God which is infinitely beyond the favour of men you lose the peace of conscience which is the Souls feast you lose the joyes of the Holy Ghost which are unspeakably sweet and glorious you love all that communion with God and communications of the richest spiritual supplies which you might have from God if you gave your Hearts unto him hereby you lose your souls which is the greatest loss you lose your salvation and the eternal crown and glory which you are capable of And what do you gain by giving away your Hearts from God you look indeed for great satisfaction and delight and a happiness which the things you chiefly desire and love should yield unto you but be sure you will come off with disappointment none of these things can give that which they have not something indeed you will gain by giving your Hearts to the creatures namely deep wounds of conscience heart-piercing sorrows smarting scourges sometimes of afflictions or if your life be more pleasant and conscience for a while asleep at your latter end you are like to be utterly consumed with terrours or if you be not awakened then be sure you will be awakened in the flames of Hell Fire and brimstone and a horrible tempest of Gods wrath and most dreadful indignation shall be the eternal portion which you will gain by your preferring the creature above God in your affections And what can be more foolish more injurious to your selves than this sin Vse 3. For exhortation of all men especially of you that are young men to give your Hearts unto God This is the first day of the new year and some of you do bring New-years gifts to one another be perswaded to present God with the New-years gift of your Hearts the Devil that old Serpent and the World that old Cheat have had your Hearts all the old Year and some deceitful Lusts have hitherto gained and possessed your Affections be perswaded to call off and pluck your hearts now at length out of the hands of these enemies which seek after your destruction and to offer them up unto God for a New-years gift this New-years day and as a new and living sacrifice which will be very acceptable unto God who is the God of your Salvation Some of you have nothing of your own which you can give unto men without wronging your Masters or your Parents but all of you have hearts of your own which you may give to God and which you cannot keep from him without wronging him and wronging your selves too Young men it may be you have given your Hearts to Delight and Pleasure the Goddess which most in the world do adore But sit down and consider whether sensual pleasure doth deserve your Hearts you have tasted a little of its sweetness and hope for a great deal more yea so much as shall give satisfaction and contentment but you will find emptiness and vanity in the enjoyment bitterness and misery to be the consequent of that pleasure which your Hearts do so much love and desire Solomon who had as great a confluence of creature-delights as any man living and upon trial had found all to be vanity and vexation of spirit in the issue doth from his own experience warn young men against indulging the flesh and giving their hearts unto any sensual-delights Indeed he seemeth in his first words to give allowance to young men to take their pleasures and to walk in this way of their hearts but his speech is ironical for withall he tacitly intimates unto them how dearly they should pay for their pleasures when God should bring them unto Judgment Eccles. 11.9 Rejoyce O young man in thy youth and let thine heart chear thee in the dayes of thy youth and walk in the wayes of thy heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know that for all these things God will bring thee unto judgment As if he should have said Young ones be as merry and frolick as you list take your fill of sensual Pleasures if you think good Smell at every flower suck at every breast taste and feed on every dainty dish drink and drink deep of every sweet cup Bathe your selves in the streams of all creature-delights run into every pleasant embracement melt away in soft pleasures indulge your sensual appetite to the height gratifie every lust to the full withhold from your selves nothing which is pleasing to your flesh do whatever seemeth good in your own eyes be chearful and rejoyce all your youthful dayes seek gather and enjoy with all freedom whatever is delightful to your hearts or pleasant to your eyes This do if you think good and that it is your interest BVT KNOW that for all these things God will bring you unto judgement Believe remember and seriously consider that there is a day of reckoning not far off a day of judgement coming when you will be called to an account and when all your delights and pleasures will vanish like the cloud and be fled for ever out of your sight then your most sweet delights will be turned into Gall and Wormwood then horrible pain and everlasting torment will take the room of your momentany pleasures and as you like the one so indulge your selves in the other Or it may be it is the honour and esteem of men which too many of you that are young are most enamoured with and have addicted your hearts unto Some of you though you have not the golden chain about your neck have gotten the chain of Pride and ambition about your Heart whereby it is captivated and led away from God unto any kind of Practices which may likely get you a name and lift you up in others esteem And is it not to be feared that some of you make use of Religion as a footstool to raise you a little higher or as a stirrup to advance you into the seat of some kind of repute and as a cloak to cover ambitions designs And is any kind of honour either amongst the ungodly or the religious worthy of your hearts Doth it deserve the highest room in your affections Is it fit that Pride should sit in the throne which doth belong to God Your affections are hungry will they be satisfied with wind If they be filled sometime will they can they herewith be satisfied Do you not lose honour by loving it and desiring it inordinately and that higher honour than the honour which you may desire but never attain unto I mean do you not lose the honour and esteem of God which is infinitely beyond all