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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09529	The young man's remembrancer, and Youth's best choice: being an exhortation to conversion, in two anniversary discourses from Eccl. xii. I.	Mead, Matthew, 1630?-1699.	1700 (1700)	Wing M1563A; ESTC R180504	46,254	164

Christ's Kingdom If there be but one Lamb one Young One in all this Assembly added to the Flock of Christ this Day all the Angels in Heaven will rejoice Ay all the Angels in Heaven nay it will be the Day of the very Gladness of Christ's Heart For as the Bridegroom rejoices over his Bride so shall thy God rejoice over thee Isa 62.5 Fifthly Consider how uncertain the measure of thy Life is thou mayest think to live many Years and yet may'st die soon How many have you gone after to the Grave that came after you into the World Job says speaking of the Sinner The number of his Months are cut off in the midst Job 21.21 It is not only a Description of Death but of Early Death an immature Death is the cutting off our Months in the midst this is that David deprecates Take me not away in the midst of my Days As our Times are in God's Hand in regard of the event of them so they are in regard of the length of them either God may not give thee time to grow old or not a heart to repent when thou art old When so many offers of Grace are refused and so many motions of the Spirit resisted by thee I tell thee thy heart is in great danger of being for ever hardened How many Young Ones are now awake and that for ever in Endless Flames that would never open their Eyes to see their danger till they came thither That is an aweful Word Psalm 58.9 Before your Pots can feel the Thorns he shall take them away as with a Whirlwind both living and in his Wrath. Before your Pots can feel the Thorns That is before you have any real Sence of your danger To what shall I compare the Miseries of Young Ones that are taken away so often in the midst of all their Pleasure before ever they thought of Death It is a thing sad beyond comparison beyond all expression Have you then Young Ones no pity for your Souls Or do you resolve not to prepare for the Tryal till the Assizes come and the Judge sits on the Bench If we had a certain knowledge from Heaven that this was the last Sermon we should ever hear that this was the Last Call to Remember our Creator that God would ever allow us that we should be in another World before another Day comes about with how many Tears should we bewail our Folly of neglecting God And how should we rend the Heaven with Cries that God would own us and help us to own him and that he would reprieve us a little longer that we might make sure of an Interest in him before we go hence and be no more And why should we not do so now seeing we know not the day nor hour when the Son of Man will come The Lord awaken Young Ones for none else can awaken them and perswade them to seek after God betimes O that you would be perswaded to this He is the most Eligible Object in the World they that have chosen him will tell you so they have found him so you will never have cause to repent of your Choice you may have cause to repent of other Choices None ever made a carnal Choice but he repented first or last either here with a godly Sorrow whilst Matters were capable of retrieving or in Eternal Misery where there is Repentance without returning But who ever repented of chusing God Name one that ever did Job once cursed the Day of his Birth but who ever cursed the Day of his New Birth Who ever repented of his closing with Christ or of his being sanctified and made like God When Death comes then the Cry begins amongst Carnal Sinners How have I hated Instruction How have I forgotten God and my Eternal Interest How have I regarded Lying Vanities to the forsaking of my own Mercies O this Flattering World How hath it deceived and undone me This will be your cry when you come to a Sick Bed Now did you ever hear any one say I have chosen God but God hath deceived me I have ventured my Soul upon the Lord Christ for Pardon for Righteousness and Christ hath deceived me I have chosen the Way of Holiness and that hath deceived and misled me Did you ever hear such a Complaint No nor never shall Arise then Young Ones in the Name of the Lord I say to thee arise and shake your selves from the Dust and Vanities of Youth betake your selves out of hand to God in Christ make Religion your Business whatever you do for the Lord's sake this will make you a Blessing in your Generation Truly let me tell you the Days we live in calls aloud upon you Youth in this Matter we are in declining times sad times for Religion it loses ground apace in this Age and if God do not stir up the Young Generation to keep up Religion I tell you it will be quite lost in the next O therefore that you would resolve to devote your selves heartily and betimes to the Lord Never think it too soon to seek him nor too long to serve him You will not count a whole Eternity too long for your own Happiness do not therefore count your whole Life too much for God's Service I had thought to have laid down some Directions for your guidance and help in this great Duty of chusing God I will but name Five or Six First Labour for a deep Sence of your Natural State this furthers the Work No Man comes to Christ till he is weary and heavy laden and that no one is or can be till a Sence of Sin and of his Natural State makes him so Secondly Another should have been this Whenever the Spirit of the Lord strives with you carry it becomingly to him especially in Two Things Labour to know his Striving Seasons And Labour to cherish all his Motions Then Thirdly I would have said Do not consult Flesh and Blood on the one hand nor give ear to the Suggestions of Satan on the other for he will always draw you from God Fourthly Do not put off this Work of chusing God from time to time but resolve to set upon it now without any more de ay And Fifthly Besure shun the Conversation of such as Deride and Scoff at serious Godliness and such as deny all Revealed Religion it will be the Undoing of your Souls else And then I would have said Lastly Beg the renewing Grace of God to carry on all Fear and Shame may conceal a Sinner Morality may varnish him but it is only renewing Grace can change him and bring him to chuse God for his God And then I would have spoken to the Second Branch of the Exhortation that is to such of you as have chosen God in your Early Days I am perswaded I speak to many such this Day many Young Ones who have chosen God in their chusing Time Why First Bless God O bless him magnifie his Grace who hath counselled and inclined your Hearts to this When David had chosen God for his Portion he presently cries out I will bless the Lord who hath given me Counsel Psal 16.7 O Sirs What a blessed Thing is it to be an early Convert to be an early Christian It is not only Matter of Comfort to you but I tell you it is a Comfort to your poor Ministers How do they Rejoice when they can beget one Soul to Christ What says Paul to the Philippians to whom God had blessed his Ministry in their Conversion Ye are our Crown and our Joy Phil. 4.1 And again to them 1 Thes 2.20 Ye are our Glory and our Joy we bless God that blesseth us to bring in any one of you to Christ O that every Young One in this Place were of this Number You are our Comfort that God has some to keep up Religion when we are Dead and Gone You are a Comfort likewise to your Godly Parents that can in you see the Return of many Prayers and that they can now Die with Comfort because they leave you their Children to Walk in the Steps of your Fathers and to Honor God when they are gone to Heaven O it is a blessed Sight to see Young Ones Walk with God! Therefore bless God for inclining your Hearts to this whilst you have a Day to Live Secondly Let it be your Care to renew your Choice of God every Day renew your choice of God daily and also the Dedication of your selves unto God Our first Dedication is not enough though it may be Sincere therefore it must be Improved by repeated Acts We should be often renewing our Choice of the Lord and should think it not enough to be the Lord's but we should labour to be more the Lord's for let me tell you though God cannot be more ours yet we may be more his and one Excellent Way to be so is by chusing God and dedicating our selves to God Lastly Live as they that have chosen God for their God your claim is high let your carriage be answerable In short if you have indeed chosen God and have given up your selves to him make it appear let it be known prove it by all Acts proper to such a Priviledge How is that By daily putting off the Old Man and putting on the New by Dying more to Sin and Living more to Righteousness giving up your selves to the Conduct and Leadings of the Spirit to be guided by him in all his Motions making the Word of God the whole Rule of your Lives labouring in all things to Walk worthy of God who hath called you to his Kingdom and Glory and in so doing you will have a sure evidence that you have obeyed this Call of God in the Text Remember now thy Creator in the Days of thy Choice FINIS ERRATA PAge 8. line 18. for some read something p. 9. l. 16. r. slighty p. 21. l. 23. f. ruine r. mind p. 32. l. 20. r. when Christ touched p. 34. l. 16. r. not known p. 62. l. 21. r. so say I.