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A97294	Some prison meditations and directions on several subjects viz. on [brace] the fall of man, the sufferings of Christ, repentance and faith, reproof and counsel, the holy Scriptures, prayer, love to mankind, sincerity, the vanity of the world, the benefit of affliction, heaven and hell / by Samuel Young, minister of the Gospel.	Trepidantium Malleus.	1684 (1684)	Wing Y88A; ESTC R43962	59,844	144

Christ will condemn the Wicked in the great day there is not the least Promise of Pity after thousands of Years or Ages Aegyptian Bondage though long yet ended so did the Babylonish Captivity but there will be no end of this misery God is not a man that he should repent 1 Sam. 15.29 there will be no change of his mind If God changeth Al. in Philos Platon saith a Platonist 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. he must be changed of himself or some other if of another he must be greater than God or wiser which none can be if of himself he must change either for the better or the worse both which would argue imperfection in God and therefore he shall be known for ever to be a God that changeth not God is now preparing his Instruments of Death though vain men consider it not but are as Sheep or Oxen or other Beasts of the field that are grazing or sporting when one stands by whetting his Instruments to slay them DIRECTIONS Prepare for the day of Judgment and when prepared pray for it The compleating of the happiness of the Saints as to their body will be in that day What think you of the particular Judgment in the time of Death When Saul was told he should dye for that is the meaning of the word be with me that is in the number of the dead for Jonathan was a good man 1 Sam. 28.19 20. Then Saul fell strait way all along on the earth and there was no strength in him In the sixth verse we find In the day of his trouble God answered him not neither by Dreams nor by Vrim nor by Prophets Neither will God speak comfortably to ungodly men when they die by Ministers nor Scripture nor Conscience If you ask what that Vrim was we read not of it as a thing made by Moses or the People some think it was a precious stone in the breast of the High-Priest that by the change of its colour shewed what success the People should have in War as by Thummim what Offerings were accepted I know Mr. Weems throws in one rub against this Because saith he when the Priest put on Vrim and Thummim he asked Counsel at the mouth of the Lord He pleads if there were such a wonderful miraculous change of the colour of Vrim there was no need of asking of God his Opinion therefore was when the Priest had it on he was inspired to answer to the question I will not gainsay the Opinion only I conceive the objection is of no force for that change of the colour might be made by or in Prayer and calling upon God Saul had no answer the Ungodly shall cry in a time of Death and not be heard and when the day of judgment cometh that great day the Consciences of the despisers of Christ may say to them what once Zebul said to Gaal Judg. 9.38 Where is now thy mouth wherewith thou saidst Who is Abimelech that we should serve him Where is now thy mouth wherewith thou saidst Who is Christ that I should serve him Then will he say to such Exod. 6.1 what once God said to Moses of Pharaoh Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh Now shall Angels and Saints see what God will do to the ungodly but such as are prepared for that day may Pray for it Aug. Medit Aspice Domine Jesu cries Angustine viduitatis orbitatis meaelacrymas quas tibi offero donec redeas Behold Lord Jesus the tears of my Widdowhood or fatherless condition which I pour out 'till thou returnest Pray for the Judgment day that sin may be no more that all the faithful may be gathered in Pray for the eternal Kingdom Mat. 11.12 The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force You see how poor hungry Beggars cry at your doors for an alms if you do not presently answer them if you frown on them they will not be gone Let us all smite our breasts Blessed God what an infinite disproportion is there between my desires and their objects how coldly do I Pray for a Heaven 2. Get a Settlement in your Hearts of the truth and certainty of all these things It is reasonable to believe that verily there is a Reward for the Righteous Psal 58.11 verily there is a God that judgeth the earth God rewardeth not his People now God punisheth not his Enemies now and therefore will do it hereafter The worst of Men have many times the best of the World and the best of men the worst God hath put breathings and longings of Soul in his own after the full enjoyment of himself in Glory and he puts not those desires there to torment them but to satisfie these desires Men venture much at Sea in hopes of great gain Let hopes even weak hopes in many put them on diligence in God's Service Wherefore 1 Cor. 15.58 my Brethren be constant unmoveable alwayes abounding in the work of the Lord knowing your labour shall not be in vain 3. Let all the Saints admire and adore our Lord Jesus that saveth them from Hell and brings them to Heaven Mr. Ambrose in his Looking unto Jesus saith thus Suppose for an Offence thou wert to be rack'd leisurably that thy Bones and Sinews might be pained thirty or forty years that so much Flesh should be cut off-one day such a Bone broken another and by Art the Flesh should be restored and the Skin cured again and all th●se years thou be dying and never dead and all this while thou shouldest have no Cloaths F●od or Sleep convenient for thee and when thou thought'st there was no hope a great Prince should come and deliver thee from all this misery and not only so but give thee great Treasures and one of the most pleasant Habitations in his Kingdom how would'st thou love that Prince Our Sin had condemned us to far greater Misery and our Lord Jesus hath procured for us far greater Mercy It is well God hath prepared an Eternity to admire this Love in 4. Do God that Service here on Earth that you can never do him in Heaven I will name a few Particulars and leave the Amplification to your Meditation 1. Take thy fill of spiritual Mourning for shine own and other mens Sins now Thou canst not do this when thou comest to Heaven for there is no Sin there 2. Bear up patiently under all thy Trials now thou canst not do this in Heaven for there is no trouble there 3. Deal liberally with distressed Christians now thou canst not do this in Heaven for there is no distressed Christians there 4. Delight in Scripture and Ordinances for the healing of thy Soul now thou canst not do this in Heaven for there is no unhealed Soul there A Word to the Vnconverted Are these things so Then may I say to you what the Prophet said of Moab and Kirharesh Isa 16.11 Wherefore my Bowels shall sound as

contrivances against them 3. Take a Prospect of all the happy consequences of sanctified Afflictions 1. Rom. 5.4 5. They work Patience and Patience Experience c. They bring forth the peaceable fruits of righteousness 2. They make us look to God for comfort seeing none can be found in Creatures Micah 7.5 6 7. Trust ye not in a Friend put not confidence in a Guide keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosom For the Son dishonoureth the Father the Daughter riseth against her Mother the Daughter-in-law against her Mother-in-law a mans enemies are the men of his own house This was a sad case but how much good came of it Therefore I will look unto the Lord I will wait for the God of my Salvation Trust not in an Enemy or a Stranger one would think to be good counsel yea but trust not in a Friend But what if that Friend be an intimate one No put not confidence in a guide But my Wife is my second Self shut the door of thy lips from her that lyeth in thy bosom But if I am a Father I hope I shall have comfort in my Children whom I so much love and of whose Education I am so tender No the Son dishonoureth the Father but saith the Mother Daughters are more flexible and I may have Comfort in them No the Daughter riseth against the Mother well if my Children be bad I hope to please my self in Children in Law Sons Wives No The Daughter-in-law riseth against the Mother-in-law If the case be this then I will say some take comfort in Servants or any one in the house that loves me No there is no Comfort there For a mans Enemies are them of his own House What follows Therefore I will look unto the Lord Therefore wherefore because he could not comfortably look to any other Away to Prayer to Meditation to Reading When any say they can take Comfort in nothing in their Houses No have you no Bibles there 3. Afflictions make us call to mind our own faults do others wrong abuse us have not we done the like to some men in time past Solomon disswades from fretting if we hear our Servants Curse us from this consideraon Eccl. 7.21 22. Thou thy self knowest that in time past thou hast cursed others I have heard of a man that beat his Father and drew him by the hair of his head towards the street when he came to the Threshold Stay Son said the old man drag me no farther for so far I dragged my Father and here I left him I have had the Story from the Inhabitants of that Town it being a place where Providence hath often called me 4. Afflictions make us also to desire Heaven A man in a Journey if the way be bad if the weather be bad if his Horse be bad and if his Body be out of order he more desires to be at his Journeys end than otherwise he would do When the Saints come there they shall have their reward Josephus saith that when Caius Caligula caused Agrippa to be brought out of Prison that was committed there by Tiberius he gave him a Chain of Gold that weighed as much as his Chain of Iron and preferr'd him Now the heavier the Chain of Iron was the better for him the greater was his Chain of Gold The righteous man will bless God for ever for all his trouble when the wicked man shall for ever curse the time in which he enjoyed Prosperity 5. Afflictions put us on Prayer David was a man of great troubles and therefore much given to Prayer and God delivered and his Prayers were turned into Praises If any say I have prayed long and yet the trouble is not over Long How long Thy Life is not long How long did the Jews pray and wait for Deliverance from the Babylonish Captivity Even seventy years Continue in Prayer and you know not how soon God may appear Whilst I mention Afflictions let me call on all sorts of men to prepare for national Calamities they may be such as God speaks of Deut. 28.34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see Where then will be the Cups Cards Musick of vain men I speak to you from God as Moses to Pharaoh Exod. 10.3 How long refusest thou to humble thy self before me Jer. 6.4 We may cry as the Prophet Jeremy Wo unto us for the day goeth away the shadows of the evening are stretched out The day of peace the day of the enjoyment of Gospel Priviledges seems to draw to a close when that judgment may be executed Jer. 20.25 Wherefore I gave them Statutes that were not good and judgments whereby they could not live I humbly conceive he speaketh not of the ceremonial Law that he appointed but of Idolatrous Commands from men vers 23. I lifted up my hand also to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the Heathen c. I gave them statutes that were not good not as if God gave them by command but only by his Providence If any say if that be the worst of it we care not If Popery prevail we will never be Non-conformists Go Judas take thy thirty pieces of Silver and thy ease and treasures shall do thee as much good as that Money did him which he purchased by betraying his Lord. The Wicked that now receive their good things shall be tormented and the Righteous that receive their evil things shall be comforted Luke 16.25 But of this in the next Chapter CHAP. XI Of Heaven and Hell MEDITATIONS OUT of many Tribulations shall the Righteous enter into the Kingdom of God Acts 14.22 Lo this is the happy condition of every Man that hath minded the Duties we have before considered In Heaven they enjoy a compleating of gracious Principles there they have what here they groaned for prayed for a perfect and uninterrupted Love to God and Enjoyment of Him The Love the Soul hath now to Christ is so powerful that he may say with the Spouse I am sick of Love and yet that Love if compared to that in Heaven is but as a drop of Water to a Fountain Yet if now you ask the Christian which he loves most God or the World his Love is so strange that it is such a Question as if you should ask Which were better or which he most loved a piece of Gold or a clod of Earth There is also in Heaven Converse with the best Company Mat. 8.11 Many shall come from the East and from the West and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of God What would we now give for an hours sight of Paul David or other Saints in Heaven or Converse with them Remember if we have wicked unkind Relations with whom we now dwell in a little time we shall be with them above We are now pleased not only to see a King but his Lords

a Harp for Moab and my Inwards for Kirharesh When Men ran from God though God offer'd Grace and Mercy it is said Gen. 6.7 It repented the Lord that he had made Man and it grieved him to the heart Sin hath made him such a Monster that God loatheth him and the People of God are often in Anguish of Spirit because of him What aileth the Unconverted Man that though he knoweth he hath sinned and is exposed to eternal Judgments yet can eat and drink by day and sleep by night as if all were well Men condemned to die for Theft Murder how sad do they look but Sin is of a hardening nature Hence it is that their Hearts feel not the ke●nest Considerations in Religion Ungodly Men are as one sayes Whately's N●w-birth as little Devils and differ from the great Devil not in Parts of Corruption but Degrees as a Child differs from a Man But O man thou must die and if it be so thou dyest before thou art made a new creature thou art damned for ever Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming Isa 14.9 If there were a Sword a Pistol at thy breast how wouldst thou beg for life if thou hadst any hopes of being heard the Sword of Justice is drawn against thee and ready to be sheathed in thy bowels Cry cry aloud to the merciful God for Mercy How often in the night season is there a scrole before thine eyes of thy past iniquities and of judgments to come and thou turnest from one side to another Shall I shall I yet reform When shall it once be If any say I hope to be saved though I obey not the Gospel This is to say I hope God will prove false of his word or as if a man call'd to work and promised pay should say Though I sport or sleep but work not all day long I doubt not of my wages and should argue from the goodness of the nature of that man that imployed him If others say I will repent hereafter So thou shalt but I fear that hereafter will be in Hell for ever when there is no hope of mercy The Scripture calleth obstinate Sinners Sons of Belial 1 Sam. 2.12 2 Sam. 20.1 the Sept. read in one place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pestilent men infectious men in the other place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Men yokeless against all Law And this is the case of men that were once glorious Creatures when in subjection to their Maker It is a comfortable consideration to them that are holy 1 Cor. 6.9 Rev. 21.27 That no unclean thing shall enter into the Kingdom of God Your graceless Faces shall occasion no sorrow to them there When they see you in the great day yet they nor their God will have any pity upon you Fathers whose hearts were once ready to break for their ungodly Children or Husbands for their ungodly Wives or Brothers for their ungodly Brethren they will not wish in that day O that I could save them from the Wrath of God! They will be contented and not only so but will rejoyce that Justice is executed upon them that God hath honour upon them in their eternal Damnation who had none by them by any Reformation or good works Turn you Ezek. 33.11 turn you why will you die Mind the duties I have perswaded to before Let none complain for want of time when they know that many of as much business as they can find time to mind God and their duty in Jer. 13.17 But if you will not hear my Soul shall mourn in secret for your pride You that cry in Youth It is too soon to be serious or in Middle-age It is time enough will in old age say It is too late I turn from you to them that I know will hear me and with whom my pains are never lost To the Righteous Praise the Lord all ye his Saints whom God hath sanctified whom God will save You may sing that Song Exod. 15.21 The Horse and his Rider hath he thrown into the Sea So your vile affections and Satan hath God conquer'd for you Grow in grace as the Children of God and as the Brethren of the holy Prophets and Apostles Epictetus gives a direction to Philosophers to consider when about to do an action 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What would Socrates or Zeno do So how would David Paul pray read or do the works of Religion if they were by you and were to do the same If your Brethren in Heaven could speak to you how would they perswade you to be zealous in good works as Children of the same Father and Heirs of the same Kingdom with themselves A strange sight would it be to see a King with a Crown on his Head taking in a Dunghill Sad is it to see the Christian that hath Grace and shall have glory to be immoderately concerned about the things of this life I perswade you to that which tends to make your lives happy on all accounts and which I have often spoken of Piety Industry Vsefulness and Chearfulness Piety be serious in Religion and seek for comfortable Perswasions of the Love of God Industry be laborious in your Callings Vsefulness do good to the Souls and Bodies of many Chearfulness flee all needless sorrow adorn the Gospel of Christ and let your Conversations invite others to receive it Faults in you are bad indeed The better the Garment is the worse is the rent the better the Cup the worse is the crack the better the man the worse the disorder For your encouragement to walk with God hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches Rev. 2.7 To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the Tree of Life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God Rev. 7.16 17. They are before the Throne of God and serve him day and night in his Temple And he that sitteth on the Throne shall dwell among them They shall neither hunger nor thirst any more Neither shall the Sun light on them nor any heat for the Lamb that is in the midst of the Throne shall feed them and shall lead them unto the Fountain of living waters and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes Rev. 22.1 There is that pure River of the water of Life clear as Chrystal proceeding out of the throne of God Rev. 22.6 and of the Lamb. These sayings are faithful and true And the Lord God of the holy Prophets hath shewn to his Servants the things which must shortly be done Blessed are they that do his Commandements Rev. 22.14 that they may have right to the Tree of life and may enter in through the Gates into the City I end all with this humble Address unto the Lord That he would come with all his Train of Graces and put an end to all our Heats and Contentions about the smaller things in Religion and make us zealous of all good Works and then bring us to himself in Glory Even so come Rev. 22.20 Lord Jesus That all the Saints may enjoy those Delights of which it shall never be said Here is THE END