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knowledge_n	know_v	sin_n	transgression_n	1,337	5	11.0260	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85853	Funerals made cordials: in a sermon prepared and (in part) preached at the solemn interment of the corps of the Right Honorable Robert Rich, heire apparent to the Earldom of Warwick. (Who aged 23. died Febr. 16. at Whitehall, and was honorably buried March 5. 1657. at Felsted in Essex.) By John Gauden, D.D. of Bocking in Essex.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1658 (1658)	Wing G356; Thomason E946_1; ESTC R202275	99,437	136

seasonable Physick as well as food Who knows but his bodily infirmities might be an holy meanes to cure those of his soule of which as he could not but be conscious so he did with a very pathetick humble and I hope penitent unfeigned sense confess them to God and my self and possibly to others His knowledge as a Christian was too great to suffer ●im to be ignorant or sensless of his sins whereof he stood guilty before God He is very miserable that flatters himself to be without them or is reniorseless for them Who can know that is acknowledge sufficiently with penitent shame and sorrow the transgressions and errors of his youth as David saith Psal 25.7 Optimus ille qui minimis urgetur as St. Jerome by his own experience cries out He is happyest that is least overcome by them most humbled for them and strives most against them till he hath quite overcome them Although I must profess to all the world my ignorance of any way either foul riotous notorious scandalous or debauched in him as to swearing profaneness or luxury in his later yeares since he wrote man and was out of his pupillage not any thing heretofore did I observe or hear beyond what is usual but not therefore venial in most young persons as quick passions and such surprises of the beast and devil within us as are incident to high yea all spirits together with the usual methods of young Gentlemen by sports and idle travellings to unravel by their after-neglect and forgetting of all literature and serious studies whatever learning their former education had wrought for them and woven in them He did acknowledge that he had sins enough to exercise Gods infinite mercy and to need all good Christians charity and prayers while he lived Who is so happy as he can dispense with either of them I know after the rate not onely of our times which are bad and loose enough but of all times that a little modesty and civil restraint short of the highest vices seem a great vertue in young great and florid persons The impotent and impudent debanchery of many makes their folly outvye their fortunes Magnitudinem fortune peccandi licentia metiuntur deform their Honours blaspheme their Baptism corrupt the age in which they live disdain their God and damn their own with others soules insomuch that many young people are ripe in sin while their years are yet green and their experience of things but very raw Commonly men and women flatter themselves as if they were birds of a rare feather and jewels of oriental lustre if they be but civil polite formal inoffensive to man if they be but onely apishly petulant scenically affected and fulsomly vain and not monstrously vicious To expect any thing from them at those years that is learned serious studious judicious vertuous generous consciencious truly religious towards God seems to them as unreasonable and unseasonable as if one should look for ripe fruits in time of blossomes or for harvest in the spring as if life time strength beauty wit and spirits with all other talents which they have in their youth were none of Gods gifts nor any good use or account to be made of them more then children doe of their babies and rattles to use and abuse them to break and loose them Whereas indeed so soon as we begin to be capable to sin knowingly and reflexively we ought to begin to repent seriously The smitings of our hearts and checks of conscience which this Gentleman told me he ever had after any known fin should be minded and religiously considered as Gods gracious rebukes as Christs looking back on Peter which smote that rock so effectually that rivers of tears gushed out As we are loth to be long or a little miserable so we should be as loth to be long or little sinful The civil and formal righteousness of Scribes and Pharisees will not bring us to the kingdome of heaven it must be exceeded or we shall be damned both young and old There must be Christian graces proportionable to Christs doctrine precepts promises baptism sufferings and love to bring us to Christs glory They are undone that are afraid or ashamed in their youth to be too good As we cannot be too soon happy in our own sense nor can we be too soon holy in Gods sense Such as intend Gods glory and their own eternal welfare in earnest must not flatter themselves in youth as if a little good nature would goe a great way to save young men because the highest praise as Aristotle sayes of young ones is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be hopeful accessible tractable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not to be monitoribus asperi morose offensive disdainful to all good counsel and counsellors This is well spoken for heathen Philosophers and Poets but this is not the height which Christian Preachers must require and Christian people exact of themselves if they mean to go to heaven in case they die as they may in their youth Are not many cut off daily in their essays of repentance and delays of reforming being miserable before they would because they would not be good so soon as God would and they should have been As for those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 refractory reluctancies and recalcitrations against all good counsel monition and example to which high-crested and obstinate youth is too prone this noble Gentleman was so far removed as to my experience from them that a little before and soon after he had compleated what he imagined to be his chiefest worldly happiness when I visited him he did of himself desire me once and again that I would advise him what I conceived the best method of living to the improvement of his mind and time both for God and man what books were most proper for his reading and study both in piety and prudence The procedure of this good motion was prevented by his languishing sickness and that valetudinary 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 indisposition which presently grew upon him and after five moneths so prevailed that it banished all hopes of long lasting in this world The importunity of his cough was such as forbad almost all long discourses with him which perceiving I thought it a work not unworthy of my faithful respects to him to send him my advise in writing that he might at his best leisure either read it or have it read to him which I know he did with as much regard and attention as could be expected in the course of his languishing tedious state yet he had some frequently to read choise places of Scripture to him particularly when the 8th of the Romans was read to him by that person whom he most loved whose tears in reading best interpreted not the Text but her own heart and sympathies to him he would oft pray her to repeat some verses once and again to give him leave to pause upon them and sometimes he ended his meditation and