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B05796 Serious advice and directions to all, especially to young people, how they may hear and read the word of God, that it may be the savour [sic] of life and not of death unto them. 1689 (1689) Wing S2600A; ESTC R183731 8,120 18

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SERIOUS ADVICE AND DIRECTIONS To ALL Especially to YOUNG PEOPLE HOW THEY MAY HEAR and READ THE WORD of GOD That it may be the Savour of LIFE and not of DEATH to them 4 Mark 24. Take heed What ye Hear 8 Luke 18. Take heed How ye Hear EDINBURGH Re-printed in the Year 1689. THE INTRODUCTION AS the Holy Scriptures which the Apostle tells us are able to make us wise to Salvation if duly priz'd and improv'd are next the giving of Christ to die for us the greatest Gift that ever God bestowed upon a Nation or Terson and which advances them above all other Nations and People in the World Psalm 147.19 20. so there is nothing will bring sorer Judgments Spiritual Temporal and Eternal than the Neglect or Misimprovement of these Oracles of God it will not only level such Persons with Heathens but with the vilest of them another day as our Saviour has forewarned us Matth. 11.24 It shall be more tolerable in the Day of Judgment for Sodom and Gomorrah than for such who do not duly receive and entertain the Gospel for those ends it was given of God It is a wonderful thing to consider how scrupulous and fearful many People are of Receiving the Lord's Supper lest they should Eat and Drink their own Damnation and yet even these Persons will make nothing of careless and unprofitable Hearing and Reading the Word of God or neglecting and slighting the same which will as certainly ruine them at last as unworthy Receiving And therefore these Directions are earnestly recommended to all especially Young Persons that they may not be guilty of their own Eternal Ruine and make that Word which in its own nature is the Savour of Life unto Life to be unto them the Savour of Death unto Death SERIOUS Advice and Directions to All Especially to YOUNG PEOPLE In Psalm 119.9 the Question is asked Wherewithal shall a Young Man cleanse his Way the Answer is By ruling himself or taking heed thereto according to thy Word IT is plain from hence that Young Mens Ways or Courses are corrupt and filthy and the only Means of cleansing them is Gods Word by which they must rule and regulate their Ways that is their Thoughts Words and Actions and therefore because the Word of God is Spiritual and contradicts the head-strong Lusts of young Persons they do not love to read or meditate on it how few will seriously apply themselves to the reading of a Chapter or two in a day tho' they have time enough to read Stories Romances or other foolish Books and Papers which are agreeable to their Lusts So if they hear the Word Preached which is the ordinary Means that God has appointed for their Conversion it is more out of Custom than Love and when they come home from hearing they forget all they have received by falling into vain and foolish Talking and not allowing themselves any time for Meditation till at last they grow hardened in their Sins and the Word of God will have no impression upon them and youthful Lusts lead them captive to their destruction Therefore as Young Persons would not be guilty of their Souls eternal Ruine they must take care that they do not neglect hearing and reading the Word or hear and read to no purpose which is as bad or worse To this end I do earnestly advise such as can write to keep a Paper Book and write down the Heads of every Sermon with the Text and Proofs and so much of the rest of the Sermon as they can well write an Example whereof to direct them I have hereafter written down in this Paper also Paterns or Directions for Prayer before and after Sermon A PRAYER before SERMON MOst glorious God through the Riches of thy Grace thou hast given me another opportunity to wait upon thee at thy House and thou hast commanded me to take heed how I hear I most humbly beseech thee to make my heart fit to receive the good Seed of thy Word Lord I desire to lay my Soul open to this Sword of thy Spirit beseeching thee to make it to me quick and powerful sharper than any two-edged Sword to kill all my Sins and Lusts especially my right-eye and right-hand Sins which I pray thee discover to me and make me willing freely to deliver up to thee to be crucified and slain Be with thy Servant upon whose Ministry I am to attend give him a door of utterance that he may Preach thy Word faith fully and plainly not with inticing words of men's Wisdom but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of Power and let thy good Spirit carry it from his Mouth to my Heart that I may come to be convinced of the Sins of my Heart and Life and that these Convictions may end in true godly Sorrow that may work Repentance unto Salvation never to be repented of and all for the Merits of Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen The like Prayer may be used before reading of Chapters with a little variation The HEADS of a SERMON 1 P. 1.3.4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead c. ONe of the great Benefits that come to us by the Resurrection of Christ is the New Birth Who hath begotten us again Regeneration is the first Saving Work upon us it was the first Lesson Christ taught so Learned a man as Nicodemus First I shall explain what is meant by Regeneration Secondly c. Thirdly c. Application It signifies a Moral Change not of the Substance but of the Qualities of the Soul called in Scripture also Conversion Sanctification c. It is that great Change wrought upon us by the Spirit of God whereby God's Image lost by the fall is again renewed upon us and we are turned from a state of Sin to a state of Holiness Acts 26.18 See Ephes 4 21 I shall explain it more in six particulars 1 st Begetting again supposes a former Birth and that we must be twice born in our first Birth we were born in Sin and Children of Wrath the first Birth brought us into the World Sinners the second makes us Saints our first Birth makes us Men our Second Birth makes us Christians 2ly This new Birth is the Work of God alone none can regenerate us but God he that made us Creatures can only make us new Creatures Jam. 1.18 it is a work of as great power to make a Sinner a Saint as to make him a Man I know there are some civil Persons that as our Saviour saith are not far from the Kingdom of God but yet I say there 's no Man by the greatest improvements of Learning Nature or Reason can make himself a Saint no more than a Man can beget himself 3ly Regeneration is a work of free Grace and Mercy of his own will begat he us by the word of Truth as 2 Tim.