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A03419	A Christian caueat for al estates. Or A sermon, preached by that religious seruant of God, Master George Hockin, Bachelor of Diuinitie, Fellow of Excester Colledge, and preacher to the towne of Totnes in Deuon	Hockin, George, b. 1569 or 70.; I. C., fl. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 13542; ESTC S116598	26,164	49

are old because they practised them when they were young If I should be demanded why there are so few good old men I answer because there were so many naughtie young men for youth spent in vanitie commonly ends old age in prophanenesse The Prophet calleth some sinnes Crimson sinnes sinnes of a double die Esay 1.18 If it be right Purple it is dyed both in the Wooll and in the Thread and then it is deepe So if Satan die vs in our Wooll in our youth before we be men before we be made cloth it is likely to sticke by vs. It is in a man as in other things in breaking of Horses luring of Hawkes trayning of Dogges which must be done while they are young so must man in his youth be trained vp in the feare of the Lord. The Diseases of the Spring are more curable then those of Autumne So the sinnes of youth are more curable then those of age but when a man is soaked in them hee is past cure If Satan can make our youth vnprofitable there cannot any good be looked for of the after ages without the great mercy of Almightie God Hence commeth those speeches of sinnes which a man hath continued in I would faine but I cannot leaue them whereby it comes to passe that where one doth recouer fortie rot away If the Deuill nip the Blossome what hope is there of Fruit. When a man hath long had a trustie Seruant he is loth to forgoe him he will rather increase his wages So the Deuill will be loth to forgoe him in his age who serued him in his youth The sinnes of youth sticke fast by a man hee can hardly leaue them youth being like a new Morter wherein if you stampe Garlicke it will a long time smell of it and though they repent and come home yet they carry the smell of the Garlicke Morter wheresoeuer they goe The vessell will rellish of the first liquour What iniurie doe men to themselues by liuing prophanely in youth when they bee old they dare not reprehend so sharply as others nor punish so seuerely as they should because the sinnes of their youth are so in their foreheads that all men see them God will haue the first fruites and the first borne are due to him The Autumne cannot see the fruit of those trees whose blossomes the Spring-time neuer saw If men begin not to loue vertue in youth it will bee a harsh thing for them for to wooe her in old age when the threed of life shall be tentred and drawne euen to the vtmost length Because the Deuill hath a speciall affection to this Reas 2 age knowing that if hee get youth hee hath oftentimes mans age too Sathan doth not easily forsake his hold nor surrender his possession though he be not an Angell of light 2. Cor. 11.14 yet he would be like one Though he seldome speake truth yet he is more beleeued then God the Authour of truth Though he damned many Soules yet hee is serued by youth and followed by them in troupes Hee hath such varieties of pleasures which he presenteth to them that they are bewitched by them hee is an vnreasonable insatiable vsurping tyrant yet youth will not hearken to Gods word who saith resist the deuill Iam. 4.7 It is lamentable that no age doth so much despise the Word as youth which must stand in neede of it It is now a rare thing to find among yong men a Ioseph or a Samuel where they should liue as Nazarites consecrated to the Lord Amos 2.11 they are rather like men who haue vowed and dedicated themselues vnto Sathan As the sonnes of Eli despised the rebuke of their father So yong men now for the most part are impatient of of the rebukes of the Word contemning the medicine The prodigall sonne had foure prouocations First his portion Secondly his fathers indulgence Thirdly ill companie Fourthly youth these the Deuill vseth as so many baites to take young men withall these hurt yong men much Till the portion was spent the prodigall thought not vpon returning home The prodigall man while he spendeth is magnified when hee is spent is pitied and that is all his recompence for his lauishing The indulgence of the father to conniue winke at the faults of their Children doth breede in their Children a forgetfulnesse of their Creator Ill companie hurt youth for such are they for the most part as they are with whom familiarly they liue and with whom for the most part they spend their time All waters in temperature in colour and in taste agree with the nature and the disposition of those grounds and of that earth through which they make their secret passages and their wayes In like manner men practise those things which by frequent custome they haue deriued to themselues from those with whom they haue conuersed Youth is so wanton and wild so rude and vnruly so lose and lewde that vnlesse God saue the Deuill will destroy vnlesse God draw them the Deuill will keepe them Reas 3 Young men should remember their Creator in youth considering their naturall corruption they are corrupt Children Esa 1.4 They know nothing but how to corrupt themselues their wayes their liues their actions their neighbours by euill councel and euill examples themselues by euill exercises This naturall corruption is most deformed a monster both vgly and fearefull If naturall corruption will haue yong men eate till they surfeite and drinke till they bee drunke you shall finde multitudes of them that will doe it though they consume goods body estate and damme the Soule If naturall corruption will haue yong men bee wantons there will bee some that will fit and addresse themselues for it by lurking here and there in corners frequenting dishonest places vsing idle and immodest Exercises corrupt and rotten communication stuffed with vaine vnfruitfull Iestes and prophane passages It is a thing most lamentable and neuer enough to bee bewailed to see many young persons whose dayly practise and trade of life is to corrupt their flesh in lying deceiuing seeking vnlawfull and vngodly gaines slaundring and backbiting their neighbours spending their time wantonly and wickedly for which one day they must giue account to GOD. The first vse serueth for our instruction seeing Vse 1 yong men are hardest to bee reformed they should learne to bee Godly in their youth It is good for a man to beare the yoke in his youth Lament 3.17 It is good for a man to remember his Creator in his youth Some will say shall youth spend no time in pleasure What not halfe a mans youth Not a day now and then not an houre Surely GOD will not allow a minute of time to bee spent in vaine Yong men will say wee will become good and liue Grauely hereafter and behaue our selues soberly we will amend when we are old This is to make a couenant with the Deuill thou wilt be Gods but not yet As Foelix said to Paul Goe thy way

A CHRISTIAN CAVEAT FOR AL ESTATES OR A Sermon preached by that Religious seruant of GOD Master GEORGE HOCKIN Bachelor of Diuinitie Fellow of Excester Colledge and Preacher to the Towne of Totnes in Deuon PSAL. 105.5 Remember yee his maruellous workes that he hath done his wonders and the iudgements of his mouth LONDON Printed by William Stansby 1622. TO The vertuous and truely religious Mistris P. I. encrease of all spirituall grace and true comfort here with assurance of eternall glorie and happinesse hereafter THese holy and heauenly Meditations were by the Author of them at first conceiued vpon the occasion of the decease of a religious Gentleman with whom hee was much conuersant Good Wine needeth no Garland it will praise it selfe so I perswade my selfe will this ensuing Sermon which a learned holy and faithfull Seruant of God formerly Viua voce in publique sounded in your eares and in the eares of many others which it furnisht with the best and rarest things which Canaan Greece and Rome doth yeeld There is scarce in the Booke of God a Mine that is more rich and abundant in exhorting men to remember their Creator then the Text handled in this Sermon This Treatise will affoord good helpe to those that will deigne diligently to peruse the same For herein the learned shall meete with some things not common perhaps not to encrease yet to renew his secret knowledge and whet his iudgement and also the godly Christian shall not want wherewith to feed his deuoutest Meditations and enkindle his best affections toward God But lest I doe seeme like some deceitfull Broker Laudat venales qui vult extrudere merces Horat. to set worth on worthlesse Wares by goodly words I will leaue the proofe hereof to the judicious and not fastidious Readers I lighting vpon this Sermon of that both learned and godly Diuine Master George Hockin of whose gracious abilitie in preaching Gods Word and of whose conscionable care in performing his Ministeriall office many can witnesse as a poore Orphan Babe of a deceased Friend for the memorie of its Author haue aduentured to shew my selfe so farre on this Theater as to set it forth to publique view and to make it common for the benefit of others I presume good men will both accept my good meaning and conne me thanks who haue set vp for them such a faire and cleere light to light them on-ward in the way that will leade them to eternall blisse The Lord grant that it may haue that successe in such as are religiously affected which he that gaue first life vnto it in studying and brought it forth by preaching intended and I in consenting and causing to haue it Printed desire so shall young and old the feeble weake and doubting Christian be taken by the hand and we all shall be of the number of them which follow Faith to the conseruation of our soules which the Lord for Iesus Christ his sake grant Amen Yours in his best desires I. C. A CHRISTIAN CAVEAT FOR ALL ESTATES ECCLESIASTES 12.1 And remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth before the euill dayes come and the yeeres approch of which thou wilt say I haue no pleasure in them SOLOMON was Sonne vnto the worthiest King that euer swayed Scepter vpon Earth he was the Sonne of a King a King himselfe and the Father of a King and Predecessor in the royall Line vnto the Sonne of GOD and for Nobilitie matchlesse He was King of Ierusalem which was the Citie of GOD the Lady of the World the holy Citie the perfection of Beautie and the ioy of the whole Earth In speculatiue knowledge he excelled the wisedome of all the Children of the East and all the wisedome of Egypt He was able to discourse from the Cedar tree that is in Lebanon euen vnto the Hyssope that springeth out of the wall He was the most fit and absolute man that euer liued both for abilitie and vnderstanding abundance of riches and sufficiency of all Creatures This King exhorteth young men to remember GOD in their youth The flower of youth will vanish away therefore Remember thy Creator in youth it is the best way and the onely way to turne away anger and euill alwaies to remember the power goodnes and iustice of GOD the Creator The dependance these words haue on the former is in this sort Solomon hauing exhorted Youth in their youth and prime-time to remember their Maker He said before take away griefe out of thy heart that is all those things which prouoke the anger of GOD cause euill to depart from thy flesh that is all punishment which comes from GODS anger And remember thy Creator This Text contayneth two things First An exhortation to godlinesse in youth And remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth Secondly A reason taken from the manifold infirmities of old age Whiles the euill dayes come not nor the yeeres approch wherein thou shalt say I haue no pleasure in them The summe and sense is this Solomon a man experienced willed young men to remember GOD that made them and that in their youth not that they should forget him in their old age but they should begin betime to know GOD and so continue whiles they continue on earth there is good cause so to doe for he made them brought them into the world and bought them too and they should remember him here that hee might remember them hereafter before old age weake age and dote-age come before weaknes sicknes sorrowfulnes and other infirmities happen which accompanie old age Or Solomon puts the dissolute young man in minde of iudgement there hee shewes him how to escape it by auoiding the anger of GOD namely to remember Iehouah Thus you haue seene Solomons meaning now to speake of some such profitable instructions as these words shall afford And remember Text. The true and serious remembrance of GOD is an especiall remedie against sinne and the forgetting of GOD a cause of sinne GOD himselfe commandeth it in the Scripture saying Remember Iehouah thy God for it is he which giueth the power to get substance Deut. 8.18 Dauid from GOD willed the people not to forget GODS Works but to keepe his Commandements Psalm 78.7 Here wee may see plainly that the remembrance of GOD keepeth vs from sinning as the wicked doe GOD commandeth Ioshuah to remember him continually that hee might liue well and prosper saying The booke of the Law shall not depart out of thy mouth but thou shalt meditate therein day and night that so thou maiest obserue to doe all things therein and then thou shalt make thy wayes prosperous and haue good successe Iosh 1.8 Remember that those are commonly the best opportunities of mercy and pardon which are most early offered and these are hardly recouered when through wilfull contempt or slight negligence carnall and foolish ease they haue beene long contemned Let all remember their Creator in their youth Doct. That the onely

a countenance neuer waite on him Many that eate his meate that neuer acknowledge the Giuer Many protected by him see it not Many afflicted yet seeke him not diligently Hos 5.15 Hee strikes them but they sorrow not hee consumes them but they refuse his correction Iere. 5.3 He giues to such as are vnthankfull clotheth such as are proud helpeth such as are vnworthy and prouideth for such as are wicked He that giueth all good things hath little or nought giuen him againe Where hee should bee loued hee is hated and of whom hee should bee honoured he is dishonoured Gods loue towards vs hath beene from all eternitie Some as wine doth receiue the greater praise by the age of it old wine is the best and ancient loue is the most approued How much doe wee esteeme of such a friend as hath borne vs good wil for some twentie or fortie yeeres together The more reckoning wee should make of Gods loue which hath beene eternall Before Christ wee were enemies to God there was nothing to be seene in vs but sinne and miserie nor any thing to draw Gods affection toward vs but his owne free and good pleasure now that loue wee haue deserued wee the lesse esteeme but such loue as is freely conferred on vs we doe make more store of Vse 2 The second Vse not onely the Creation bindeth Man to remember God but all other his benefits wherewith Man is compassed about Many are the works of mercy which God hath bestowed on Man besides the Creation all of them binding Man to remember God First Mans Redemption by Christ Of all the works of mercy this chiefly ought to be remembred for it is the chiefest worke the freedome of Sinners both from the guilt and power of sinne By whom wee haue Redemption through his Bloud euen the forgiuenesse of sinnes Ephes 1.7 To haue sinne forgiuen is to bee redeemed or set free from all euill That which Paul calleth in the former words Redemption is afterward called Remission of sinne What is forgiuenesse of sinne but an act of Grace acquitting vs from all the guilt and the whole punishment of all our sinne and as men speake of Redemption so they may speake of Remission Secondly the worke of Preseruation is another great benefit of God which is a keeping men free and safe from dangers and from hurt by enemies Preserue me O Lord for I trust in thee Psal 16.1 What shall I doe vnto thee O thou Keeper of men Iob 7.20 Hee preserueth both Man and Beast Psal 36.6 Thou preseruedst them all Nehe. 9.6 Thirdly the worke of Sustentation bindeth Man to remember God for God vp-holdeth his Children that they take not a fall by sinne and calamitie or that they take no hurt by such fals The Lord sustayned me Psal 3.5 Hee maketh mee to rest in greene pastures and leadeth me by the still waters Hee restoreth my soule and leadeth mee in the pathes of Righteousnes for his Names sake Ps 23.2 3. Many other benefits are men compassed withall to binde them to remember God In the dayes of thy youth It is good for children to learne to know God euen in youth Text. whiles they are young for so much Solomon teacheth here saying In the dayes of thy youth Doct. That because youth is most prone to forget God it is needfull they should be exhorted to remember God Youth is most prone to forget God for they are in the flower of their age in the roofe of pride and in the heate of lust hauing by nature corrupt hearts and carnall desires liuing in pleasures passing their time in mirth all which makes them forget God Though young men doe not alwaies breake out into notorious wickednesse yet they are subiect to youthfull wantonnesse and vnstaiednesse of affection which if it breake not out yet it makes them forgetfull of God and lesse carefull of good things This loosenesse is the way to lewdnesse this weaknesse is the high way to wickednes this Gods children being regenerate see which before they saw not Hence is it that Dauid prayeth Lord remember not the sinnes of my youth Psal 25.7 Of all mans life Youth cōmonly is most vaine The imaginations of mans heart is euill from his youth Ier. 8.21 We are all transgressors from the wombe Esa 48.8 In sinne hath my Mother conceiued me Psal 51.5 Euen from the Belly haue they erred Ps 58.3 For the sinnes of youth God often punisheth men in their age so making them to inherit the iniquities of their youth Iob 13.26 The Prophet saith We and our Father haue sinned from our youth Ier. 3.25 Shal we thinke they in their youth committed grosse sins as Adulterie Drunkennesse Murther and such like which were so holy men as Iob and Ieremie surely no but they confessed the sinnes of their youth their wantonnesse and forgetfulnesse of God their too much loue of pleasure their youthfulnesse Solomon saith Foolishnesse is bound in the heart of a child Pro. 22.15 therefore child-hood and youth are vanitie not in themselues but because they are often spent in vanitie Suruey those which are more then ordinarie young men which haue the best wits and are thought to bee of the best disposition and their youth will hardly be found without vanitie nay not onely those young men that are best in ciuill gifts but in spirituall graces as Timothy find child-hood and youth to be vanitie Eccl. 11.10 Timothy did tame his body and bring it into subiection so that Paul was faine to bid him to drinke wine 1. Tim. 5.23 yet he had this memento giuen him flie the lusts of youth 2. Tim. 2.22 Young men see not vanitie when they are yong but they may perceiue it when they are old for now their consciences are like water in a bason if the water be troubled the face cannot be seene but when it is setled it may so all is troubled in youth but when maturitie of yeeres come then it will stand still and they may see their faces Dauid being old praied against sinnes of youth Because it is so hard for a young man to remember God and to be holy Dauid breaketh off his meditation abruptly into this wherewithall shall a young man cleanse his waies Psal 119.9 And Dauid vsing the word cleansing compareth the young man to a glasse which though it be very cleane yet will gather filth in the Sunne beames As a ricke of Hay put vp wet set it selfe on fire so haue the hearts of young men enough in them to inflame them Young men should remember their Creator in Reas 1 their youth lest accustoming to forget God in youth they doe not remember him in old age Customes is another nature and can hardly be altered Can the Black-More change his skinne or the Leopard his spots then may yee also doe good that are accustomed to doe euill Ier. 13.23 This young men get by continuing in sinne they cannot leaue it many cannot leaue swearing lying stealing when they