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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	commendation_n	young_a	youth_n	30	3	8.0714	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65750	Redemption of time, the duty and wisdom of Christians in evil days, or, A practical discourse shewing what special opportunities ought to be redeem'd ... by J.W.	Wade, John, b. 1643.	1683 (1683)	Wing W178; ESTC R34695	377,547	592

Disposition and a stronger habitual Inclination to be and to do good A young Saint and an old Devil is a cursed and an absurd Proverb There is the greatest fear that a young Devil will prove an old Beelzebub Who can ever expect that a Tree that is [e] Aestatis tempus est fructificandi tempus Quae aestate steriles est hyeme foecunda non erit Muscul barren in the Summer should bare and bring forth Fruit in the Winter It is said of the Trees of Righteousness that they shall bring forth Fruit * Psal 92.14 in old Age not then begin to do it but shall continue still to do it † Lam. 3.27 It is good for a Man that he bear the Yoke in his Youth It is true of the Yoke of Christ They that bear it in their Youth there is hope they will count it an easie Yoke and not offer to throw it off afterwards [f] Fingit equum teu●râ dociteni cervice magister Ire viam quam monstrat eques Venaticus ex quo Tempore cerviuam pelem latravit in aula Militat in sylvis catulus Nunc adhibe puro Pectore verba puer nunc te melioribus offer ‖ Prov. 22.6 Train up a Child in the Way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it [g] Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem Testa diu Horat. ep lib. 1. ep 2. What the Vessel is first season'd withal it will have a taste of a long Time after Remember God in your Youth and you will hardly forget him ever after 5. Consider once more 't is plain and evident some young ones have redeem'd the Time of their Youth do you follow and imitate their Example Holy David was able to say * Psal 71.5 Thou art my Hope O Lord God thou art my Trust from my Youth † 1 Kings 18.12 Good Obadiah feared the Lord from his Youth It is said of Abijah the Child of Jeroboam that in him there was found some good Thing some Seeds of true Piety toward the Lord God of Israel that is in regard of the Worship of God and it is the Commendation of this young Man that he was not only truly Godly but pious and religious in a wicked and flagitious ‖ 1 Kings 14.13 Jeroboam's House You know (*) 1 Sam. 2 18. Samuel in his Childhood ministred before the Lord. And (†) 2 Tim. 3.15 1 Tim. 1.18 Timothy [h] Hoc non vulgare erat adjumentum quò là pueritia assuefactus erat Scripture lectioni nam hac longa exercitatio muitò instruct●orem reddere hominem potest adversùs omnes circumventiones Itaque prudenter olim cautum fuit ut qui dest n●bantur verbi Ministerio à pueris erudirentur in solidiore pictatis doctrin● ad Oque sacras literas penitus imbiberet ne ad ipsum munus accederent novi adhuc tyrones Atque hoc in singulari Dei beneficio ponendum est si quis it à fuerit à teneris Scripture cognitione imbutus Cal. in in 2 ep ad Tim c. 3.15 from a Child had known the holy Scriputres He began betime in Religion in holy Learning and Knowledg and gave such Proofs of forwardness therein whence it might be and was prophesied concerning him that he would become an eminent Instrument in the Church of God in communicating to others the Light of saving Knowledg wherein himself so early had made so good a Beginning so great a Progress We read of the elect Lady's Children ‖ 2 ep Joh. 4. walking in Truth that is in Sincerity and Integrity of Faith and Manners or ordering their Actions as the Truth prescribes and living according to the Rule of the Gospel Our Saviour Christ was early about his Father's Business we find him at it * Luke 2.42 49. at twelve Years old † 2 Chron. 34.1 2 3. 'T is said of that good King Josiah that in the eighth Year of his Reign which was the [i] Adolescens jam regiae administr●tionis factus compos nam tutela durabat and finem anni 13. simulaique ad regni gubern●tionem libertoren pervenit Syno●s Crit. in 2 Par 34.3 sixteenth Year of his Age while he was yet young he began to seek after God Certainly his Heart was seasoned with the Fear of God in his Childhood when first he began to reign But now in his Youth as soon as he could get the Reins of Government in his Hand he began to seek after God that is to endeavour the Setling of the true Religion and publicly to manifest his Faith in God and Zeal for his Glory And in the twelfth Year when he had attained to more Authority he began to act most vigorously against Idolatry And in the eighteenth Year he had quite purged the Land and the House of the Lord. v. 8. And it 's well known concerning our English Josiah King Edward the sixth that he was most exemplarily holy in the Daies of his Youth How did he honour the Bible and Word of God! [k] Fuller's Church-History 7th Book p. 424. When one of his Play-fellows proffer'd him a bossed-plate ● Bible to stand upon and heighten him to take down somewhat he desired which then stood above his Reach perceiving it a Bible with holy Indignation he refused it and sharply reproved the Owner thereof as counting it unfit to trample that under his Feet which he was to treasure up in his Head and Heart And upon the Day that he was crowned King of England when three Swords were o●●ered him to signify that he was King of three Kingdoms England France and Irland [l] Wolsins Lection Memorab he is reported to have sad There is one Sword wanting yet and being asked what that was he said it was the Bible that Book is the Sword of the Spirit sa d he far to be preferred before all these He was constant fervent and successful in his private Devotions [m] Fuller loc cit p. 415. How did his faithful Prayer wonderfully recover Sr. John Cheek his School-master who by his Physicians was quite given over for a dead Man How did he promote and carry on the Re●ormation of Religion from Idolatry and Superscition in this Land and Nation And when the Emperour Charles the fifth sent an Emba●●adour with a menacing Message of War in case his Cousin the Lady Mary should not be admitted the free exercise or the Mass and the Counc I thinking it fit to gratify the Emperour engaged arch-Bishop Cranmer and Bishop Ridley to press the King with Pol●tick Reasons for the toleration thereof the King refused upon Scripture-Grounds to condescend there into and when he found them still urgent and very importunate with him at last he ●ilenced them with his Tears and stopt their arguing with his Weeping and forc'd them to weep in company with him It is [o] Hi Life p. 218 220. reported of the early