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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53925	A New-Years gift for youth being the substance of a sermon, preached at the funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Bell, (aged sixteen years, odd months) at St. M. Overies, in Southwark, Decemb. 1. 1686. upon those words (chosen by her) of Solomons / by Samuel Peck ...	Peck, Samuel.	1687 (1687)	Wing P1036; ESTC R40070	7,661	12

A New-Years Gift FOR YOUTH Being the Substance of a SERMON Preached at the Funeral of M RS. Elizabeth Bell Aged Sixteen Years odd Months AT St. M. Overies in Southwark Decemb. 1. 1686. Upon those Words chosen by her of Solomons Eccles 12.1 Remember thy Creator in the days of thy Youth while the Evil days come not By Samuel Peck Minister of Popler Printed by Alex. Milbourn for J. Blare at the Sign of the Looking-glass on London-Bridge Imprimatur Ian. 4. 1686. Guil. Needham R. R. in Christo P. ac D. D. Willielmo Arehiep Cant. a Sacr. Dom. The Substance of a Sermon Preached at the Interment of MRs. Elizabeth Bell c. Eccles 12.1 Remember thy Creator in the Days of thy Youth while the Evil Days come not SAint Paul who knew by experience the great disadvantage of losing the Prime of our Age in the ways of Sin commands Titus to use his utmost endeavours to perswade Men to an early Piety betimes to mind the best things and lead a Life becoming the Gospel of Christ saying Young men exhort to be sober minded Tit. 2.6 using such a word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as implys a continual Consultation with a Man's self for the due government or well-ordering of his whole Course that Wisdom Vertue Religion and Piety may shine forth in all his words ways and actions or prevail upon him as the Apostle expresseth it To deny all Vngodliness and Worldly Lust and to live soberly righteously and godlily in this World. Ver. 12. An Exhortation or Caution not unlike this of the Wise Man's Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy Youth while the Evil days come not And indeed Youth have need great need to be often thus admonished for the sooner Satan takes possession of any Soul and the longer he keeps it the harder 't is to dispossess and cast him out which makes him so diligent and desirous to corrupt Youth and to steal away the hearts of young Persons from their Maker hoping that if he be first served by them he shall at last serve himself upon them Therefore if any Motive if any Wile Stratagem or Argument will prevail he will see that shall not be wanting He will watch and wait all opportunities and occasions make large and fair promises of Profit Honour and Pleasure and allures them to smaller Sins first thereby making way for Temptations to greater sticks not to alledge and pervert the very Word of God to draw them to and encourage them in a licentious Course or sinful Liberty saying GOD himself makes an allowance for your Years Rejoice O Young-man in thy Youth and let thine Heart cheer thee in the dayes of thy Youth walk in the sight of thine Eyes and in the ways of thine own Heart As if God gave young Persons a Liberty to Sin But in the mean time conceals from them the following Memento of the Wise-man But know that for all these things God will bring thee to Judgment Eccles 11.9 And therefore Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy Youth From which words two things offer themselves to our consideration Viz. 1. There is in Young Persons a proness to forget their Creator and their Duty towards Him. 2. That GOD requires and looks for Service from young Persons Of each of these I shall speak somewhat briefly Prop. I. THere is in Young Persons a natural proness to forget their Creator and their Duty towards Him. This appears by the Advice frequently given in Scripture to and concerning Youth sometimes by Solomon who speaking to Parents and Governours adviseth that they Train up Children in the way they should go the way of Piety and Religion and when they are Old they will not depart from it For Young Ones like new Vessels Quo semel est imbuta recens sevabit Odorem testa diu long retain the relish of those Principles or Instructions that are first poured into them Sometimes again the Wise-man directing his Discourse to young Ones themselves saith My Son be wise hear Instruction and incline thine ear to Vnderstanding my Son if Sinners entice thee consent thou not Prov. 1.10 Seek Wisdom and lift up thy voice for Vnderstanding Chap. 2. and 3. Seek her as Silver dig for her as for hid Treasure she is more precious than Rubies all things thou canst desire are not to be compared to her length of days are in her Right Hand and in her Left Hand Riches and Honour And in the Text he counsels thee to Remember thy Creator in the days of thy Youth That is Be mindful of thy Duty towards him Shun and avoid with all thy care the Sins the Vices and Vanities of this Age and devote thy self to God by an Early Repentance and an Holy Life In like manner David calls upon Young-men and Maidens to praise the Lord or to live his praises Psal 148.12 And St. Paul exhorts young persons to be sober-minded Tit. 2.6 Which implys Evangelical affections or an holy frame and temper of mind Now I say such frequent Exercitations and Calls as these to young persons in the Word of God does imply a proness in them to forget God and their Duty to Him in their Youth to be regardless and unmindful of Religion and the serious practice of it Yea and daily experience gives us but too sad a proof of the Truth of this Look abroad into the World consider the generality of our Youth in this Age what they are what manner of Lives they lead how vain lewd and debauched the most are in their Conversation how rare it is to find one amongst many that is solid sober and religious that makes real Conscience of avoiding all known Sin and of performing Holy Duties or of exercising himself to Godliness as becomes his Christian Profession Nay do not many of them walk and act and talk more like Atheists or Infidels than Christians as if they believed no future State no Judgment no Punishment or Reward to come And what is the ground of all this irreligion and prophaness but an utter forgetfulness of the God that made them and will shortly judge them A forgetfulness of their own Mortality and approaching Dissolution which when ever it comes will make them as happy as Angels or as miserable as Devils for ever I know Young men you have sometimes some Convictions wrought in you by the Word of God and thereupon promise fair talk of returning to God and of forsaking your youthful Lusts and Vanities yet set not about this great and needful Work in good earnest but this your goodness is as the Morning-Cloud and early Dew which quickly passeth away Sirs as in the Presence of God ask your Consciences if this be not Truth Do you not alwaies find something in your hearts ready to stifle all your purposes and promises of Repentance and Amendment of Life so that you are delaying from this day to another and still delaying hoping for a time at last till God