Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	worst_a	young_a	youth_n	13	3	8.7719	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17936	Tentations their nature, danger, cure. By Richard Capel. Sometimes fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford. To which is added a briefe dispute, as touching restitution in the case of usury.; Tentations. Part 1-2	Capel, Richard, 1586-1656.; Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1633 (1633)	STC 4595; ESTC S119212	168,622	502

world the quite contrary way I meane now to grow towards a conclusion and the rest shall be taken up in some directions 1. To prevent these Lusts 2. To helpe against the two effects of these lusts viz. 1. Horrour of the tentation 2. The deadly blowes of senselessenesse which they give First for such as are young these are called the lusts of youth they are most strong in youth and come on worst there because that their affections are strong their judgements weake and youth do conceit that they may take some liberty this way and no man must aske them why they doe so They must be exhorted to flye the lusts of youth Timothy was young in age but old in conditions a very true penitentiary a drinker of water a very weak crazie body a great pains-taker a man fuller of grace than ordinary being an extraordinarie Officer in the Church and yet Paul cals upon him being young 〈◊〉 what onely to avoid No what to runne No but fly from the lusts of youth make all post-haste away from them If Timothy such a chast and chastened peece as he was had need of such a warning-peece then all youth have great need not to come neere the doore of her house as Salomon doth advise his young Saint Secondly such as are old must not crie holy-day and thinke that no danger lyes this way alas the day age will kill no sinne it is Christ and grace onely that can cure any 〈◊〉 there were a sinne 〈…〉 whereof in all 〈…〉 if this bee found that age doth kill it in some such then as are in yeares must not cast away their weapon but walke in feare and care this way yea though they bee good people I know the body is then frigid and there is not that stirring with that strength but if Satan come and blow the coales there will rise a great flame a mighty burning an old house will fire quickly and so will old people if they let Satan alone Iob was not young and married hee was too when he said he made a covenant with his eyes taking bonds of his senses that he would not bee catched with a maid and maides are more inductive this way than such as are married Iob not such a man in the whole world againe a chast man a married man one that had children and now some what in yeares and yet you see his ●are and circumspection this way No man must then thinke to walke at large because hee hath the remedy and is now growing towards his last declension Saint Hierome saith that his face was pale with fasting that his body was cold his flesh halfe dead already yet he complaines that in his witheted carcase the flames of lust did boile and that his minde was inflamed and even all in a scalding f●●e with fleshly desires and old hee was also and therefore we see in the best men that be age of it selfe is no priviledge none must dare to heare himselfe bold on his age Satan can helpe an old man and woman to a wanton eye to a young tooth sin is not so much in the act as in the affection it 〈◊〉 in the root and GOD will suffer such 〈◊〉 one to fall into burning passions that by his 〈◊〉 experience he may learne to know that sinne is properly and immediately in the soule and the soule growes not old that grace not age must be the death of sin now an old man to fall into the passions and lusts of youth is monstrous and proves almost uncurable To see an old man covetous is no such strange sight but to see him lascivious is a great eye-sore as to see an old man to be affected with the Gowte and Stone the diseases of age is not so much but to see an old body to bee taken with the diseases of youth is a strange sight and proves most dangerous as to have the small-pox the wormes and other diseases of children so in his soule to finde an old body wantonly given to be carried away with affections of uncleannesse which are properly and commonly the lusts of youth is dangerous I wish then old people to keepe off and not to thrust themselves upon the fire relying too much on their age yea say that a man hath passed over his youth with some freedome this way and it may be hath not felt himselfe much given after this veine yet he were best see that he hang not loose when he comes to yeares for wee have the confession of a most strict and godly man Gregory Nazianzen by name who having in his fresh and younger time carried a good hand over these lusts when old and even done he cries out that hee was haunted and pestered most miserably with them And David a better man than he yet it was in the afternoone of his age that hee fell into adultery And when Salomon was old saith the Text hee doted on an our-landish woman how comes ●his Like enough because men being young feare themselves when old they thinke the worst is past trust too much to the advantage of the body lye not in their armour have not their weapons ready and then Satan is too hard for them 2. When old then men are subject to much spirituall pride and that perhaps because they stood so free from this sinne as though they had beene somewhat in themselves and now to cure that spirituall sicknesse this base tentation is suffered to molest them 3. If they had beene thus set upon when hot and young and full of sap with such strong motions this way like enough they should and would have sunke and yeelded and GOD will have such know by their owne feeling what these lusts meane wherefore that they may not receive that hurt by the temptation and impulsion they have their hands full of them when old and cold who did scape them when greene and young However I wish both young and old by all meanes to beware of this Snake Thirdly whether they be or bee not given to this sinne yet care must be used to be as much as we can out of the way when the tentation doth come such as are much given to this sinne have cause to looke round about them because Satan hath such a potent friend in their bosome hee holds a side and a faction in the hearts of such This sinne is a sinne which is much drawne out by the temper of the bodie it holds more of the body than any as we see it shewes not it selfe till the body comes to such an age it may rather than any be called a bodily sinne if then wee finde that by the constitution and graine of the body as also by sinister education or otherwise the minde and heart runne much or more than ordinary this way such must be at it day and night to keepe the occasion away all they can to keep