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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	young_a	youth_n	youthful_a	47	3	10.8875	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43453	The importance of religion to young persons represented in a sermon preached at the funeral of Sir Thomas Vinor, Baronet, in St. Hellens Church, London, May the 3d, 1683 / by Hen. Hesketh ...	Hesketh, Henry, 1637?-1710.	1683 (1683)	Wing H1612; ESTC R12084	11,579	35

heart and evil in the flesh are meant here the two Great Heads of the Animal or Sensual Passions in Man which Philosophy call's the Irascible and the Concupiscible together with all the particular subdivisions of them and by removing and putting these away is to be understood the freeing ourselves from the power and command of them and all those Vices which they strongly propend and incline men unto Now this is the great Effect and end of Religion the Purifying and Refining the Nature of Man the correcting all those wild Exorbitances of Passion and Lust by which he is so estranged from God and disabled from living that Life of Vertue and Goodness which his Great Creator intended and made him for And that this is the true meaning of this advice doth appear plainly from Two considerations 1. By considering what the great purpose and design of Solomon is in this Book and what he Fixeth upon now in the close of it as the only sure Expedient and Method to that design Now that is to State and determine that so much Agitated controversie about Humane Felicity to determine wherein it consists and what the only true and Proper means of attaining it are After a full and curious Canvassing of this matter an exact Surveying of all those particulars and Heads of Injoyments which Vain Men are so apt to conceit Happiness to Consist in discarding them all and exposing their pretences to true Happiness in the former part of this Book he comes in the Close of it to Fix upon true Religion as the greatest Interest and concern of Man and that by which alone his true Felicity was to be secured And because Young Persons were apt to take other Measures of things and to look upon themselves unconcerned in discourses about Religion which they counted proper only for the Aged and the Grave therefore in this Place he purposely anticipates this humor and recommends Religion unto them letting them know that however they might take liberty to Indulge themselves in Sensualities and Vain Pleasures and think they had more Licence to do this than others yet that God at the Last Day would severely Reckon and account with them for the same And that therefore it greatly concerned them to take mighty care to restrain and bridle those Sensualities that they were so prone and incident unto to remember their Creator and take care to do that duty they owed to him now in the days of their Youth before the evil days come upon them This is the true though very short account of this Book and the purpose of Solomon in it it is to recommend Religion unto all Men and in this part of it to Young Men as their greatest interest and the only sure expedient to render them happy and therefore we ought to understand and interpret these words in analogy to this great purpose i. e. to the sense that is already given of them 2. And this will yet be more clear by considering the Context to which they stand related both that which precedes and that which follows them in the former he is laying before them a sense of the future Judgment to Restrain and Curb the Extravagant Sallies of their Youthful Inclinations Rejoyce O Young Man in thy Youth and let thy Heart cheer thee in the days of thy Youth and walk in the ways of thy Heart and in the sight of thine Eyes which is a plain Sarcasm and intends only to restrain these things by deriding of them as the next words shew plainly remarking the fearful and dangerous Issue of them at last but remember that for all these things God will bring thee unto Judgment unless therefore thou canst outface the Apprehensions and Terrors of the final Doom thou oughtest to take great care to restrain these Sensualities and Vicious Inclinations And in the following verse i. e. the first of Chap. 12. he plainly recommends the care of Religion to them Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy Youth c. Now this Text comes in between these two Verses and therefore must needs be interpreted to a sense that is consonant to them plainly recommending to them that which as I said before is the greatest instance of their Religion and ought to be so of their care too to bridle all those head-strong Passions and giddy Inclinations that betray them into Vice and a forgetfulness of their God to which he annexeth a strong motive and argument in the latter part of the verse For Childhood and Youth are Vanity 2. Which is the Second General I observed in the Text and proposed as the chief thing to speak to at this time in which I shall endeavour to do these three things 1. Explain the words and shew wherein the strength of the Argument lies 2. Improve it to that purpose of Religion to which Solomon here useth it 3. Make some Practical Deductions and Inferences by way of application 1. The strength of the Argument lies in the word Vanity Child-hood and Youth are Vanity therefore remove Sorrow from thy heart c. Now as of this word Vanity there are three especially Significations in Scripture so we shall find the argument of considerable strength in them all and by the complexion and combination of all together of very great efficacy indeed 1. For 1st Vanity is taken for a thing of no reality or substance for any thing of Fair and Specious appearance when yet there is nothing in Truth to answer what was promised and expected In this sense Idols are called Vanity and Worldly Enjoyments are called Vanity and relyance upon Men is called Vanity because none of these things answer their appearances or those expectations or relyances that are placed upon them for an Idol is nothing saith St. Paul either in its being or power answerable to what it appears and is by mistaken Men fancied to be And Worldly Enjoyments appear great at a distance indeed but are found to be really but little and nothing in comparison of what they seemed while the Man was in the pursuit of them And great Men whatever they may promise or we may promise our selves from them yet either their Faithfulness or their Power to help us is little and in some cases nothing at all in one Sense they are called by the Psalmist Vanity and in the other a Lye 2. Vanity is often used to express wickedness and sin especially for the Extravagant Affectation and Prosecution of Sensual Pleasures and Delights in which as I said before the chiefest instances of Vice consist Upon this account wicked Men in Scripture are commonly called Vain Persons Silly and plain Fools And Sin is called Vanity and a Lye because it no way answers its promising appearance it Courts Men under the Shape of Pleasure and Profit Interest and Delight but is in experience quite contrary it is sweet in the Mouth but in the Stomack is bitter as the Gall of Asps by all which Metaphors is plainly meant