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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66469	A young man's fancy to the rising generation being a sermon preached upon the death, and at the desire of John Tappin of Boston, who deceased at Fairfield the 10th of October 1672, being in the nineteenth year of his age / by Samuel Wakeman ...	Wakeman, Samuel, 1635-1692.	1673 (1673)	Wing W279; ESTC R18408	44,372	48

silence thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy self O did not men forget that God is as to any serious thoughts of his Being so who and what God is and what duty and acknowledgement they owe him men would not durst no Whore and S●eal and Slander and Lie c. We have not to stand upon i● the Scripture frequently g●ving in this as the reason of the vileness unreasonableness of men their forgeting their not remembring God Psal 14 7. Ezek. 22.12 Hos 8.14 Psal 54.31 c. The feare of the Lord as the Wise-man speaks Prov. 6.10 is the beginning of wisedome the knowledge fear the remembrance and acknowledgement of God is the fountain and well-head of Piety and Religion the beginning and maintainer of all holiness and honesty of heart and life and it is forgetfulness of God that is the root of all prophaness dishonesty wickedness Men are prone to flatter themselves as was before intimated that they are not gross sinners and men are apt to promise themselves that they will not be such though they do not apply themselves to the indeed remembring God but believe it Sirs that man doth not know whither he shall be left or what wickedness he shall be given up to whatsoever he may hope or think or perswade himself that sets not himselfe to the indeed remembring and acknowledging God alas how many such have been sadly left that as little thought it by themselves as any of you can do who had they been foretold what they should be and do would have answered with Hazael Am I a d●g that I should do such great things flatter not thy self man If thou wilt not remember God indeed be throughly godly be ●●od in good earnest thou canst not tell how bad how vile and wicked thou shalt be 6. And lastly there is yet this more manifesting the exceeding greatness of this sin that it is against the light and law of nature it self Such as forget and disacknowledge God sin against their very Reason it self against their certain knowledge against the clearest light and strongest conviction of a naturall Conscience That there is a God that made us and we ought to remember him that there is of duty and acknowledgement due to him is a truth generally deeply and indelibly engraven upon the hearts of all whosoever he be therefore whosoever thou art that forgettest and disacknowledgest God thou art convicted by thy own Conscience thou art condemned by thine own heart thou art going against the shining light and strongest evidences of thy own reason and sure when God shall Judge thee according to the Law of the remembrance of him written in thy heart thy sin will be found to be so much the more sinfull hateful inexcusable by how much thou hast gone against the very light of Nature thy own certain knowledge and reason it self But so much of the greatness of this sin Secondly A few words of the danger of it Possibly some that are little or nothing aff●ct●d with the greatness of this sin in it self may be somewhat awakened with the con●●deration of the ●●●ger of it to them selves Consider then 1. The forgetting and disowning God will prov●ke him to forget disown you 2 Chron. 15.2 The Lord is with y u ●●chile ye he with him and if ye seek him he will be found of you but if ye fors●ke him he will forsake you Remember God and he will remember you own him and he will own you but disacknowledge him and he will disacknowledge you Relations are mutual and the due of Relates each to other is reciprocal if thou dost not remember and own him as thy Creator he will not remember and own thee as his Creature and what can be worse then this S●e what God threatneth Jer. 23.39 Behold I even I will utterly forget you and I will forsake you and it is spoken of as you may see by the Context as the forest doom the heaviest burthen that can be laid upon the back of a poor creature Forget God and it will come to that which the Prophet speaks of Isa 27.11 He that made them will have no mercy on them and he that formed them will shew them no favour It is an Argument much made use of in Scripture moving the Lord to remember us in mercy moving him to compassion towards us to tell him that we are his creatures that he is our Maker and we are the work of his hands Job 10.3.9 Psal 118 8. Isa 64.8 but not to own him as such invalidates this Argument such forfeit the favour and merciful regard of the God that made them and if this be the doleful condition of such as do not remember him that he that made them will not have mercy on them and he that formed them will shew them no favour it is high time for every one to look about him A day may come man dost not thou think so when thou wilt be glad to plead the Priviledge of a poor Creature with the God that made thee but will not God stop thy mouth with thy not remembring thy Creator Dost thou not know or dost thou think thou shalt never know what it is in a day of extremity to have no where else to fly but to the mercy of the God that made thee to the favour and pity of the God that formed thee and to have this way blockt to have God shake thee off and forget and disown thee as thou hast done him as to shewing thee any favour Thinkest thou the time will never be as little as thou carest for or standest in need of God now when thou shalt know thou standest in as much need of God as he doth of thee thou standest in as much need of his merciful remembrance his beneficence as he of thy dutiful remembrance and obedience 2. Consider the not remembring the forgetting God will provoke him to blow upon and blast you in all your Enterprizes rendring them fruitless and unsuccessful rendring them vain and empty and vexatious it is Gods favour and presence that is the happiness of every condition that sweetens all our enjoyments and succeeds all our undertakings and it is the absence of God his disfavour that makes all but a meet heap of vanity and vexation and such as forget God though the world smile upon them for the present shall at last finde this so to their sorrow Isa 17.10 11. Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation and hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy strength therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants and shalt set it with strange slips In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow The plain meaning of it is that howsoever those that forget God pursue the world may go smoothly on for a while yet vexatious

disappointment will be the issue a ruinous heap irrepairable frustration causing grief and desperate sorrow shall be the harvest which the flourishing seeds-time of all their cunning careful painful pleasing promising projects shall afford them You may see how the awhile flourishing but after-withering estate of such as forget God is described Job 8.11 c. and frequently elswhere in Scripture I beseech you think of it for a time you may thrive without God in the world the more you forget him the more you may prosper and the more you prosper the more you may forget him as too many times men do they feel the world a coming and cool apace Godward the world grows upon them and God grows more and more our of remembrance with them think I say whatsoever your present flourishing estate may promise you the harvest will be a heap in the day of grief and desperate sorrow 3. Consider the forgetting God will provoke him to bring upon you Spiritual Judgements to give you up to blindness of minde hardness of heart to infatuate and befot you leave you to a seared Conscience and a senslesness in sinning You have Psal 81. God calling upon Israel while he graciously remembers them of himself to be owning and acknowledging of him but they will not and what comes of it ver 11. So I gave them up to their own hearts lusts and they walked in their own counsels You may reade and tremble to reade what is said of them Rom. 1. that when they knew God did not glorifie him at God that did not like to retain God in their knowledge that for this cause God gave them up to vile affection to a reprobate minde to be filled with all unrighteousness to all excess of and besottedness in sinning A hard heart a reprobate minde a seared Conscience a being past feeling a committing sin with greediness are the sad effects of not remembring of forgetting and disacknowledging God And Oh that those of the younger sort would think of this that blindness of minde that hardness of heart that spiritual stupor and benummedness of Conscience that greediness in sinning that excess of riot which many run unto and which grows upon them with their years are the sad and vindictive effects of their not remembring and turning to the Lord in their younger time 4. And lastly Consider God will finde a time to remember such as forget him he will finde a time to be remembred and sadly remembred too by such as most slight him God will have his glory his acknowledgement he will fetch it out of those that forget and disacknowledge him upon earth in Hell Psal 61 17. The wicked shall be turned into Hell and all the nations that forget God then and there God will be righted he will come ever with thee for all thy neglect contempt forgetfulness of him and casting him behinde thy back Prov. 16.4 The Lord hath made all things for himself yea even the wicked for the day of evil q. d. God will not lose his labour in making them neither he will have his honour out of them too in their perdition and destruction as God saith of Zidon Ezek. 28.22 that he will be known glorified sanctified in her in the executing of Judgements so if now thou wilt not voluntarily remember acknowledge glorifie him a day is coming when God will make thee remember acknowledge him serve to his glory though little to thy benefit or comfort whether thou wilt or no. Lay these things together then and think that as in nothing you so much remember your selves your own concerments as in remembering God so in nothing you so much forget your selves your own good as in forgetting disacknowledging him I have been longer upon this Use then I intended and must necessarily be more contracted in what remains Vse II. is for Exhortation and earnest perswasion unto all and every one to remember his Creator and do it now Remember now thy Creator c. doubtless it is a duty incumbent upon all and of every age to be now attended by them the notion of a Creator challenges this at every mans hand and that presently and out of hand be they young or be they old have they more or have they less neglected it it abides the now duty of every one it is the sin of such that have forgotten God in their youth but it is their duty to remember him in their age hast thou forgotten God so long or so long it lyes upon thee now to remember him Somewhat would have been spoken more generally unto all but time scanting upon us we shall especially urge the Exhortation upon such as are the persons to whom the Text is directing it And I beseech you my Brethren of the Rising Generation Suffer the word of Exhortation which speaketh to you and to every one of you in particular Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth It is not said Remember now your Creator or let all men remember now their Creator but Remember now thy Creator that none may put it off to the general God puts it home to each one in particular To thee young man it is spoken and to thee young woman to thee John and to thee Thomas to thee Mary and to thee Sarah the Exhortation as much as particularly concerns thee as if thy Name were written in the Text and Oh that I might be a poor Instrument in the hand of God to bring home this word to thy heart Oh that I might be thy effectual Remembrancer upon the account Oh that I might perswade prevalently perswade thee now in the dayes of thy youth to remember thy Creator Oh that now man now in the dayes of thy youth while it is yet morning with thee thou wouldest take time at advantage and improve this present precious peerless season which will be but for a little while in the serious applying thy self hereunto and minding the God and thy duty towards the God that made thee now while the evil dayes come not Remember and turn unto him now set up and acknowledge and love and fear and serve him now Do not think there is no such haste if any man may put it off for a while I may there can be no great danger or damage in deferring it a little There is such haste no man may put it off no not a while neither mayest thou the danger the damage of deferring but a little a week a day may be thy eternal undoing O do not think it is duty indeed to remember God 't is matter of importance 't is what must be done I will do it I will do it more I will be more serious in it hereafter but look upon it as thy now duty as matter of importance and necessity to be done and to be done to purpose to be seriously dealt in now truly hic labor here is the difficulty to perswade men that it is duty to remember God to convince men