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A42886	The instruction of youth in Christian piety taken out of the sacred Scriptures, and Holy Fathers; divided into five parts. With a very profitable instruction for meditation, or mental prayer. By Charles Gobinet, Doctor of Divinity, of the House and Society of Sorbon, principal of the College of Plessis-Sorbon. The last edition in French, now render'd into English.; Instruction de la jeunesse en la piété chrétienne. English.	Gobinet, Charles, 1614-1690.	1687 (1687)	Wing G904D; ESTC R217420	333,500	593

Motives to incline you to Vertue the necessary Means to acquire it the Obstacles which might divert you and ought to be avoided during your Youth there now remains to give you the Practice of Vertue and shew the particular Vertues to which you ought to apply your Studies more carefully in your Youth to render your self truly Vertuous and which ought to serve as a Groundwork to others which will be necessary for you in the Course of your Life CHAP. I. That young People ought to propose to themselves the Imitation of our Lord Jesus in his Youth BEing that all Christian Piety both in Great and Small consists in imitating our Lord Jesus Christ I would first of all propose here that Divine Pattern to give you a perfect Model of the Vertues you ought to acquire and by which you ought to form your Youth It was for this Reason according to the Observation of one of the Fathers of the Church why this Divine Master being come to Teach and Save all Men was pleas'd to pass thro' all the Ages of Man even to a perfect Age to sanctifie them all and by making himself like unto them more easily invite to his Imitation * Ideo in omnem venit aetatem infantibus infans factus sanctificans infantes in parvulis parvulus sanctificans hanc ipsam habentes aetatem simul exemplum illis pietatis effectus justitiae subjectionis In juvenibus juvenis exemplum juvenibus sactus sanctificans Domino S. Irenaeus l. 2. adversus hereses c. 39. For this Reason says he he made himself a Child to Children that he might sanctifie them He made himself a Little-one to Litle-ones giving Holiness to those of that Age to the end he might afford them in his Person an Example of Piety and Sanctity and Subjection He made himself a young Man to young Men giving them a Pattern and sanctifying them for the Service of our Lord. It is by this Divine Pattern of Youth dear Theotime that you must form yours and regulate your Actions It is from him that you must learn the Vertues you ought to practise in that Age * Inspice fac secundum exemplar quod tibi in monte monstratum est Exod. 25. Look and do according to the Example which is shew'd you Now we find Four things in the Gospel which the Son of God did during the Youth of his mortal Life The First is his hidden Life which he was pleas'd to lead all that time not manifesting himself to Men but only to his most blessed Mother and S. Joseph to teach young People to fly Vanity so natural to their Age and also hurtful and not to seek after the Esteem of the World by a vain ostentation of their Parts or Vertues but only to please God and content their Parents and Masters by a solid Progress in Vertue and Wisdom The Second is the Example of Piety and Religion he was pleas'd to give by going to the Temple at solemn Feasts according to the Command of the Law altho ' he was not oblig'd to it being there he hearkned to the Doctors and asked them Questions as if he would learn of them he who was Master of the Doctors and of the Law it self An admirable Example by which he would shew to young People the Affection they ought to have for Piety and that their first Care must be to serve God and labor for their Salvation addicting themselves to Acts of Religion to Prayer to assist at the Divine Sacrifice to the Sacraments to the Word of God and to seek Instruction from the Mouth of the Wise and from those whom God hath given them for their Conduct The Third thing is that so admirable Obedience he shew'd to his Parents which the Gospel declares in these Terms a Et descendit cum eis venit Nazareth erat subditus illis Luc. 2.42 He return'd with them unto Nazareth and was subject to them An Example which ought to confound all young People who have ordinarily so great a repugnance to Submission What a shame is this for you Theotime when you are wanting to the great Respect you owe to them from whom you receive your Life and Instruction having before your Eyes the Example of God b Deus erat sub ●itus quis quibus hominibus Disce terra subdit disce pulvis obtemperare erubesce superbe cinis Deus se humiliat tu te exaltas S. Bern. Hom. 1. Super missas who obeys his Creatures And what Reply will you give to the Son of God concerning your Disobedience when he shall reproach you that he was pleas'd to be subject and obedient for your Example The Fourth thing that the Gospel teaches us of the Youth of our Lord is c Jesus proficiebat sapientia aetate gratia apud Deum homines Ibid. That according to the measure he advanc'd in Age he visibly increas'd in Wisdom and Grace before God and Men which is not to be understood of an interior increase of these two Perfections in the Soul of the Son of God because from the moment of his Conception he was accomplish'd with them in a perfect fullness But this is to be understood as to the Effects he made appear in his Divine Actions from Day to Day As the Sun which altho' he be as much adorn'd with Light at his Rising as at Mid-day is said to become more light according to the degrees he rises because his Light appears with more brightness to our Eyes But the Gospel hath made this Observation to give to Christian young Persons the most important Advertisement of the great care they ought to have to employ their Years to increase in Wisdom and Vertue and to avoid that so universal a Fault of the greatest part who seem to advance in Age to no other end than to diminish in Innocence It is a Misfortune infinitely to be deplor'd to see that Children should be corrupted according to the measure that they grow in bigness and that their Age should serve them for nothing else but to learn Vice Lying Impurity Pride Disobedience Dissoluteness as St. Augustin takes notice of himself Jam mortua erat adolescentia mea mala nefanda ibam in juventutem quanto aetate major tanto vanitate turpior S. Aug. lib. 7. Conf. cap. 1. Children of Jesus Christ is it thus that you imitate your Master He made himself a Child like you to invite you more sweetly to his Imitation and to teach you to employ your first Years in the increase of Vertue and you miserably lose them in learning Vice. Cast your Eyes upon this Divine Pattern to reform by it the Abuses of your Youth which you have committed and learn to increase in all Christian Vertues which is to be the Disciple and Child of Jesus Christ Now that you may perfectly understand them I shall here represent them to you one after another CHAP. II. Of

is conquer'd Pag. 263. Artic. 8. Considerable Examples to teach us how we must encounter with Temptations Pag. 264. Chap. 10. Particular Obstacles to rich young Persons Pag. 269. Chap. 11. Particular Obstacles to Noble Persons Pag. 274. Chap. 12. Particular Obstacles of young Incumbents or such as have Benefices without Cure. Pag. 279. Chap. 13. Advice to Parents upon the same Subject Pag. 284. PART IV. OF the Vertues necessary for young Persons Pag. 289. Chap. 1. That young People ought to propose to themselves the Imitation of our Lord Jesus in his Youth Pag. 290. Chap. 2. Of the Fear of God. Pag. 294. Chap. 3. Of the Love of God. Pag. 296. Chap. 4. Of the Love of Parents Pag. 300. Chap. 5. Of other Persons whom young Men ought to honor Pag. 305. Chap. 6. Of Tractableness Pag. 307. Cap. 7. Of Obedience Pag. 308. Chap. 8. Of Chastity Pag. 309. Chap. 9. Of Shamefac'dness Pag. 312. Chap. 10. Of Modesty Pag. 315. Chap. 11. Of Modesty in Words Pag. 320. Chap. 12. Of other Vices of the Tongue and particularly of Swearing Pag. 322. Of Detraction Pag. 326. Of Injuries and Reproaches Pag. 327. Of Sowers of Discord Pag. 329. Of Lying Pag. 330. Chap. 13. Of Sobriety Pag. 333 Chap. 14. Of Meekness and Anger Pag. 337. Remedies against Anger Pag. 341. Chap. 15. Of Peace with our Neighbor against Quarrels and Enmities Pag. 344. Chap. 16. Of Pardon of Injuries against Revenge Pag. 348. Chap. 17. Of the Love of our Neighbor Pag. 353. Chap. 18. Of Fraternal Correction or of the Obligation of hindering the Ill of another when one can Pag. 357. Chap. 19. Of Friendships Pag. 365. Chap. 20. Of Sports and Recreations Pag. 369. Chap. 21. Of Liberality against Covetousness Pag. 372. Chap. 22. Of Humility Pag. 377. PART V. OF the Choice of a State of Life Pag. 384. Chap. 1. How important it is to make a good Choice of a State of Life Pag. 385. Chap. 2. Of the Faults that are ordinarily committed in this Choice Pag. 388. Chap. 3. Of the Means to chuse well a State of Life And First That a good Life during Youth is a Means highly necessary to succeed in this Choice Pag. 392. Chap. 4. That to succeed well in the Choice of a State of Life it is most important to think of it before one be in the Time of Choosing Pag. 397. Chap. 5. Of the Means which must be employ'd when one deliberates on the Choice of a State of Life Pag. 399. Chap. 6. What is to be done when a Man is upon the point of chusing his State. Pag. 401. Chap. 7. Of the Qualities those ought to have of whom Counsel is to be taken for the Choice of a State of Life Pag. 406. Chap. 8. Whether Parents are to be hearkned to in this Choice Pag. 408. Chap. 9. Of the different States of Life and first of the Ecclesiastical State. Pag. 411. Artic. 1. Of the greatness of the Obligations and Dangers of an Ecclesiastical State. Pag. 412. Artic. 2. Of the Vocation to an Ecclesiastical State. Pag. 417. Artic. 3. Of the Preparation necessary for an Ecclesiastical State. Pag. 420. Artic. 4. The Conclusion of the precedent Chapter Pag. 424. Chap. 10. Of a Religious State. Pag. 429. Artic. 1. What a Religious State is What its Obligations its Advantages and Dangers are Pag. 430. Artic. 2. What is to be done to know whether one be call'd to Religion Pag. 433. Artic. 3. That a Man must take time to know whether he be call'd to Religion Pag. 437. Chap. 11. Of the divers States of a Secular Life Pag. 440. Artic. 1. Of the Condition of the Great and of those who Govern others Pag. 441. Artic. 2. Of the Offices of Justice and Magistracy Pag. 451. Artic. 3. Of a Court Life Pag. 456. Artic. 4. Of the Profession of Arms. Pag. 459. Artic. 5. Of other Conditions of a Secular Life Pag. 467. Chap. 12. Of the State of Marriage Pag. 470. Artic. 1. What we must know of a Marry'd Life Pag. 471. Artic. 2. The necessary Dispositions for a Marry'd State. Pag. 474. Artic. 3. The Conclusion of the foregoing Chapter Pag. 483. Chap. 13. Of a Single Life Pag. 486. Chap. 14. Most important Advices for young Persons who begin to enter into the World. Pag. 492. Advice 1. That the time of issuing out of Youth and entring into the World is the most dangerous of all the Life and many are shipwreckt therein Pag. 494. Adv. 2. That the chief care of young Men who enter into the World ought to be to conserve the Sentiments and Practices of Piety which they have observ'd in their Youth Pag. 497. Adv. 3. That young Men must fly carefully wicked Company and particularly that of young vicious Persons of their Profession Pag. 499. Adv. 4. That they must apply themselves quickly to some Labor which may employ their Time and make them avoid Idleness which is then most dangerous and more than at any other time Pag. 500. Adv. 5. That young People ought to have a care of avoiding three ordinary Causes of their Ruin at that time Play Wine and Impurity Pag. 502. Adv. 6. That they must avoid at that time Irresolution concerning the State they ought to chuse and after the Choice not easily nor without great reason change Pag. 503. Adv. 7. That young Men ought to foresee the Dangers and Obligations of their Profession and firmly purpose to avoid those Dangers and acquit themselves of their Obligations and live in their Profession like vertuous Men and according to God. Pag. 505. Adv. 8. That they must accustom themselves betimes not to be asham'd of Vertue nor of performing the Actions thereof Pag. 506. Adv. 9. That they must have a care to embrace a solid and real Vertue and not an apparent and deceitful Piety Pag. 507. Adv. 10. That young Persons ought to fix themselves more and more in the solid Sentiments of Faith and Religion Pag. 511. Adv. 11. That they must be strongly setled in the Christian Maxims opposite to those of the World. Pag. 514. Chap. 15. Christian Maxims Pag. 516. Maxim 1. That we are not created for this present Life but for Heaven ibid. Max. 2. That the most important Affair which we have in this Life is our Salvation ib. Max. 3. That Salvation is not obtain'd without Pains and Labor Pag. 517. Max. 4. That our chiefest care in this Life must be to please God and live in his Grace ib. Max. 5. That we cannot be in the Grace of God without having a constant Resolution never to offend him upon any score Pag. 518. Max. 6. That Sin is the greatest Evil which can befall a Man. ib. Max. 7. That the worst of all Misfortunes is to die in Mortal Sin. Pag. 519. Max. 8. That this Misfortune happens to many and to those who think not of it ib. Max. 9. That we must think frequently on Death Judgment and Eternity Pag. 520. Max. 10. That we must

soon after that with less difficulty he surmounts all the others which are to be undergone the whole Course of his Life Militia est vita hominis super terram Job 7. which according to Sacred Scripture is a perpetual Combat The Reason is Because Temptations diminish according to the proportion that they are overcome Divine Grace encreases Habenti dabitur abunddabit Mat. 25. by how much better use is made of it and a Heart accustom'd to conquer yields not easily since it daily acquires new Forces by its Victories Sampson being Exercised by Fighting with a Lion became unconquerable by his Enemies And David having in his Youth surmounted Lions and Bears he afterwards tho' but yet young overthrew the Giant Goliah the Terror of the Host of Israel and was never overcome after in all the Battels he was Engag'd in O dear Theotime if you knew the Repose and Tranquillity they enjoy who have behav'd themselves gallantly in the Combats of their Youth the desire of partaking of that Sweetness would powerfully encourage you to resist them with all your vigour Learn it from the Holy Ghost by the Mouth of the Wise-man Son Investiga illam manifestabitur tibi continens factus ne derelinquas eam in novissimis enim invenies requiem in ea convertetur tibi in oblectationem erunt tibi compedes ejus in protectionem fortitudinis bases virtutis Eccl. 6. says he seek Wisdom and you shall find her and when you have found her never part with her you will find in her the Repose of your whole Life And after some Trouble she may have given you she will be chang'd into Contentment and Joy Her Chains by which she will bind you to the Service of God will serve as a powerful Protection and a solid Ground-work to raise Vertue on I adjoyn the Third Reason which is That God augments his Graces and multiplies his Benedictions upon those who have happily conquer'd in their Youths to conserve them in the good Path they were entred into by his Grace I cannot manifest this Truth unto you better than by producing the Assurance which God himself gives you in the Sacred Scripture Our Lord says the Wiseman Dominus dat sapientiam ex ore ejus scientia prudentia custodit rectorum salutem protegit gradientes simpliciter servans semitas justitiae vias sanctorum custodiens Ibid. gives Wisdom and from his Mouth issues Prudence and Science And he not only giveth her but takes care to conserve her for it is he who guards the Salvation of the Just and protects those who walk in Vertue He adds afterwards * Si intraverit sapientia cor tuum scientia animae tuae placuerit consilium custodiet te prudentia servabit te ut eruaris à via mala ab homine qui perversa loquitur c. ut eruaris à muliere extranea quae mollit sermones suos c. ut ambules in via bona calles justorum custodias Son if Wisdom enter into your Heart and Science please you he speaks of the Science of Vertue Counsel and Prudence will preserve you delivering you from the Road of Vice from the Company of the Wicked and from the Enticements of immodest Women maintaining you in the Path of Vertue and in the Way of the Just There are a great number of like Passages in Sacred Scripture which assure us of that singular Protection and Assistance of God towards those who follow Vertue in their Youth and it is easie to confirm them by Examples of the same Scripture CHAP. IX Proofs concerning the same Subject by notable Examples taken out of Sacred Scripture of those who having been Vertuous in their Youth have continu'd so all their Life and chiefly of those who have resisted in great Occasions THE First Example I shall produce First Example of Joseph Gen. 37. is that of Joseph who was the Model of Vertue in his Youth He being but Six Years of Age hated Vice in such a manner that the wicked Example of his Brothers could never corrupt his Innocence and on the contrary not being able to endure their bad Deportment he gave notice thereof to his Father Jacob. The greatness of his Vertue for which he was singularly favour'd by God and tenderly lov'd by his Father procur'd him the Enmity of his Brothers even to such a height that they sought nothing less than totally to destroy him Having been one Day wandring in the Fields they conspir'd together to murther him but having a horror to dip their Hands in his Blood they resolv'd to let him down into an old Cistern with intent to permit him there to die This poor Child not being able to overcome the Cruelty of his Brothers by his Prayers and Tears was constrain'd to suffer it putting all his Confidence in God who never deserts those who love him In this he was not deceiv'd for his inhumane Brothers mov'd with the horror of so barbarous a Crime chang'd their first Resolution and drawing their Brother out of the Cistern resolv'd to sell him to Merchants who then passed by these carry'd him into Egypt where he was sold to a Lord of that Country Joseph being with his Lord continu'd in his first Vertue living in a perfect Innocence by which he brought with him the Blessing of God upon the House of his Master who soon understood his Merit and took a great Affection to him Behold how Joseph spent the first part of his Youth that is until the Age of Twenty or Two and twenty years and see what follows after that and how he passes the rest of his Life wherein I take notice of Three remarkable Occasions where his Vertue was powerfully try'd The First was about that Age where he receiv'd the most violent Attack that Chastity was ever able to undergo Gen. 39. being solicited by hy his Masters Wise to consent to a detestable Adultery but the Fear of God wherein he had been bred up gave him such a horror of that Crime that all the Prosecution and Violence of that unchast Woman could never stagger his Chastity who since has serv'd as an Example to all Ages From this Temptation he fell into another greater For this wicked Woman not being able to compass her impious Design accuseth him for having attempted her Chastity imposing falsly upon him the Crime which she her self was guilty of The Master provok'd with this Report caus'd him to be bound and cast into Prison where he continu'd until he was of the Age of Thirty years This was a rude Temptation and a Shock that might easily have overturn'd a Vertue of no long standing to be accus'd and counted guilty of a Crime which he abominated and to suffer Punishment for it as if he had committed it But Joseph continues immoveable in his first Vertue and as he had learn'd Patience in his Youth by the Persecution of his Brothers

of his pious Mother who had follow'd him by Sea and Land from her own Country to Carthage from Carthage to Rome from Rome to Milan to withdraw him from his Disorders and gain him to God to whom next to God he is indebted for his Salvation After the powerful Exhortations of his best Friends after many Conferences with the great S. Ambrose and with other Persons eminent for Vertue and Learning after all the powerful interior Motions of Divine Grace for his entire Conversion he must have the Miracle of a Voice from Heaven which cries aloud to him Tolle lege Tolle lege Take and Read Take and Read Admonishing him to open the New Testament which he had by him He takes it and having open'd it found these Words of the Apostle by which the Holy Ghost wrought in his Soul her entire Conversion and perfect Reconciliation Rom. 13. Ver. 13. Non in comessationibus ebrietatibus non in cubilibus impudicitiis non in contentione aemulatione sed induimini Dominum Jesum Christum carnis curam ne feceritis in desideriis Not in Banquetings and Drunkenness not in Beds and Wantonness not in Strife and Emulation but put on our Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the Flesh in Concupiscences O God is it possible that the change of a Soul should be so difficult and that Vices contracted in Youth should cost so much Pains and so many Remedies to cure them This is not yet all O Theotime S. Augustin being absolutely Converted was not at all freed from the precedent Difficulties For altho' he never return'd back after his Conversion in consequence whereof he perform'd an exact Penance and liv'd a very Saintly and altogether Angelical Life Nevertheless he was sensible a long time after of * Adhuc vivunt in memoria mea talium rerum imagines quan ibi consuetudo mea fixit Lib. 10. cap. 30. the Remainders of his former Life and of frequent and very violent Temptations which being caus'd by the old Habits of his Youth gave him much Trouble and Exercise to conserve himself in Holiness according to the Account he hath given in the Tenth Book of his Confessions and in the others following where he describes the different Temptations with which he was much tormented O Theotime read over and over again this Example consider attentively therein all the Particularities and see to what Extremity a vicious Habit of Youth not resisted in time is able to carry one Fly the Danger where this Saint was like to perish and where many make daily deplorable Shipwreck of their Souls There is yet the Example of Manasses in the following Chapter and that of S. Jerom. Pag. 3. Cap. 9. Art. 8. CHAP. XII Examples of those who have never Amended the Vices of their Youth AS in a Shipwreck where a Ship is broken by a Tempest there are always many who perish and very few who save themselves by Swimming or otherwise Thus in the Shipwreck of Vertue which many fall into in their Youth the number of those who are entirely destroy'd therein is very great and of those who escape very small You will understand the smalness of this Number when you shall know Theotime that in all the Holy History a thing almost incredible there is found but one only Example in the Person of Manasses King of Juda the Account whereof I shall give you hereafter and that for this one it produces a vast number of others who were miserably Shipwreckt in the Storm and are dead in the Vices of their Youth some having liv'd a long time after others being snatcht away by Death in the prime of their Age. I shall here recount you some Examples First of all the Kings of Israel who to the number of Nineteen Reign'd over the Ten Tribes of Israel after the Division that was made of that Kingdom from that of the Tribe of Juda after the Death of Solomon there was not one but was extremely wicked from his Youth nor any that was Converted before his Death And altho' the Scripture doth not make express mention at all of the Life of their Youth nevertheless it gives us sufficiently to understand that they were wicked in that Age saying of each of them absolutely that they were vicious and not reporting of them one Action of Vertue except of one viz. Jehu of whom it recounts some good Works which he perform'd at his beginning altho' afterwards he was perverted like the rest Amongst the Kings of Juda who Reign'd to the number of Nineteen after Solomon there were Six who were good that is Asa Josaphat Osias Joathan Ezechias Josias and all the others were wicked Those who were good began from their Youth and continu'd such all their Life the greatest part of those who were vicious began their Wickedness in their younger Years and were never chang'd Thus it is said of King Ochosias That he began to Reign about Twenty two Years of Age and was wicked an Imitatator of the Idolatry of impious Achab King of Israel who was taught by his Mother Athalia Sister of that wicked King And he Reign'd but a Year at the end whereof he dy'd in his Wickedness It is said of Achaz 4 Reg. 6. That he was Twenty Years of Age when he began to Reign and that he apply'd not himself to Good 2 Para. 28. and to the Service of God but to follow the Examples of the Idolatrous Kings of Israel and that he far surpass'd them in Naughtiness wherein he dy'd after he had persever'd in Wickedness the space of Sixteen Years Amon Reign'd at the Age of Twenty two 4 Reg. 21. and became an Imitator of the Vices of his Father Manasses but not of his Repentance and dy'd in his Sins at the end of Two Years 4 Reg. 23. Murther'd by his Domesticks Joachim began at the Age of Twenty five 2 Para. 36. and Reign'd Eleven Years during which Time he was wicked like his Father's and dy'd in his Iniquities without being lamented by any one Non plangent eum vae frater vae soror non concrepabunt ei vae Domine vae inclyte Sepultura asini sepelietur putrefactus projectus extra portas Jerusalem Jerem. 22. and also depriv'd of the Honour of a Sepulcher according to the Menace of the Prophet Jeremy His Son Jechonias having Succeeded at the Age of Eighteen 4 Reg. 24. Reign'd but Three Months at the end whereof he deserv'd for his Sins to be brought under the Subjection of Nabuchadonosor and sent into Babylon where he dy'd a long time after Sedecias 4 Reg. 24. 25. the last of the Kings of Juda being come to the Crown at the Age of Twenty one was also wicked like his Predecessors and having persever'd in his Iniquities the space of Eleven years he drew upon himself and his People the utmost Effect of the Revenge which God had threaten'd the Jewish Nation with for a