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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91558	A present for youth, and example for the aged, or, The remains of Damaris Pearse containing her speech after she kept her bed, and a copy of a written paper, of her own composing, which she left as her last legacy to her brothers and sisters, and was the last thing that ever she wrote : and also several pious expressions, occasionally uttered in her last sickness, worth minding : together with her funeral-sermon, preached by a reverend minister of the Gospel.	Pearse, Damaris, 1659-1679.	1683 (1683)	Wing P969C; ESTC R43889	49,302	145

must stay eight years longer O Sir says the youth I have gone thorow the burying-place and have seen little graves as well as long and I may be dead before I am so old therefore pray teach me the Law of God O Young People think of it begin now to be religious because your youthful time may be all your time Let me hint a few things more by way of argument 1. Consider your youthful time is Gods time the first fruits of your time is the Lords he required the first fruits as his due you rob God if you do not give up your selves to him betimes 2. Consider your youthful time is the best time now you are most active vigorous quick as you are now more capable to understand any trade of life so to take in the principles of Religion if you would give your minds to it Religion will be more facile and easy to you you are not possest with such evil notions and corrupt principles as you may be if you come to age you will then be more indisposed you will be habituated in sin and the devil will have a stronger claim and interest in you who will not be so easily put off O then mind Religion while you are young it will be a great deal more delightful and easy and comfortable if you begin betimes 3. Consider this timely beginning will prevent a great deal of guilt and trouble in your souls when a man in a journey sets forth early he goes on with comfort but if he neglects the morning and sets out late he must run and ride and that in the dark O they that set forth for Religion in the morning of their time prevent a great deal of trouble and sin 4. Consider by this means you will be very desirable grateful delightful acceptable to God and good men O! to see an holy humble gracious spirit in young people to hear them speak of the things of Christ and find them pliable to the ways of God O what a pleasant sight is this What delight do such to the Lord Such have a principal share of Christs love who seek him betimes Prov. 8.17 I love them that love me and they that seek me early shall find me 'T is spoken by way of Emphasis and addition those that seek me early shall be sure to find me the Lord takes special notice of the love of his people in their youthful time Jer. 2.2 I remember the kindness of thy youth O what a lovely fight it delights God and Saints to see young souls humble holy serious savoury heavenly full of knowledg full of zeal O what a beauty is a young Samuel a young Abijah a young Jeremiah a young Timothy What honourable mention is made of these in Scripture And it was the honour of Andronicus and Junia that they were in Christ betimes Rom. 16.7 Oh if you give up your selves to Religion betimes you will be exceeding acceptable to God and good men 5. Begin betimes to be religious for hereby you will attain to a greater growth in Christianity and settlement in the truth and wayes of Godliness you shall bring more glory to God be more serviceable to your generation and lay up a greater and more sure foundation for glory yea the more eminent and abundant you have been in grace the greater Crown of Glory will be set on your head in Heaven O now you young people bestir your selves labour after knowledg set apart time to read the Scripture and other good books and be earnest with God to give you an heart to know and an eye to see the excellency of Jesus Christ fly the lusts of youth endeavour what you can to be under a faithful Ministry and get into acquaintance and communion with good people and cast off all vain company O there is a great deal of advantage by being in good company they will instruct counsel comfort and encourage you in your course of godliness Consider what I have said and the Lord bless these good counsels unto you FINIS

Kingdom of God John 3.3 and Mat. 18.3 Except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven And become as little children that is we must be kind and loving one to another and tender hearted and we should be humble and lowly in heart have mean and low thoughts of our selves and forget injuries and pass by wrong done to us by others we should forgive our enemies as we hope for forgiveness from God Now we should examine our own hearts Psal 4.4 Commune with your own heart upon your bed 1 Cor. 11.28 Whether ever there hath been a real change wrought upon your souls or no If the bent of your souls be after sin and the pleasing of your flesh more than for the pleasing of God If your hearts be set upon carnal things to gratifie self and to fulfil the lust of your flesh and to love this world more than to love God then your case is very sad but if your great care be to please God and to eschew evil to avoid sin and to save your souls then you are the people of God Do you study so to walk as to approve your hearts to God is your great comfort in God is he your portion and treasure and if your greatest comfort be in the enjoyment of God then you are his peculiar people It is not the forsaking of some sins that doth make the change in the heart There are many that do forsake some sins such as may disgrace them before men but they love all sin in their hearts why they are as wicked as any neither is the forsaking of sin in time of affliction onely the changing of the heart but the hating of all sin the least sin the most secret sin the striving against it and the forsaking of it is a sign that there is a change wrought in the Soul We should consider the great love of the Great Almighty God towards us poor miserable sinners that when we were in a lost condition and could no way help our selves then he sent his beloved Son into the world to deliver us from our sins and to give unto us eternal life John 3.16 and we should consider the great love of the Lord Jesus Christ towards us He came down from Heaven from the Glory of his Father and took upon him the nature of man he satisfied Gods Justice in his suffering for our sins he suffered a most shameful painful and cursed death even the death of the cross for sinners all that should believe in his name O now that people would but lay hold on the Lord Jesus Christ for life and for salvation He is the onely way the truth and the life Joh. 14.6 They that have an interest in the Lord Jesus Christ shall have eternal life And then as for all such if they are sure of nothing here in this world yet they are richer than if they had all this world to their command without him What shall it profit any man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul Mat. 16.26 O it is the great desire of my Soul that people would but turn from their sins and give up themselves unto the Lord Jesus Christ and receive him by faith into their Souls there was never one Soul that came unto him and stedfastly believed on him that ever he cast away but they have all eternal life it doth grieve his heart when sinners will not come unto him that they may have life John 5.40 We may see how he was greived because of the people of Jerusalem that they had out-lived the day of their visitation Luk. 19.41 42. And when he was come near he beheld the City and wept over it saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things that belong unto thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes We should take care that our hearts be not hardned through the deceitfulness of Sin Heb. 3.13 We should pray to God that he would keep us from a seared conscience and from a hardened heart and that he would make us truly sensible of our sins that we may be humbled and that our hearts may be broken for sin that we may have a godly sorrow upon our hearts such as worketh repentance unto salvation never to be repented of 2 Cor. 7.10 It doth greatly concern us to know whether we are of the number of those that shall be saved We know not how soon we shall dye and depart out of this world and if we dye without an interest in the Lord Jesus Christ it will be miserable with us to all eternity we have all of us precious and immortal souls within our bodies which must be either saved or damned must go either to Heaven and be glorified with God to all eternity or go to Hell and be tormented with Devils to all eternity There is none can express the delight and comfort that the Saints in Heaven do enjoy they shall have everlasting rest and peace Isa 57.2 and continual joy in the Lord Mat. 25.21 They shall have a kingdom Luk. 12.32 and a Crown of life which the Lord hath promised to them that love him Jam. 1.12 None here can tell their blessed state as it is written Eye hath not seen nor ear heard neitherr have entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 2.9 They shall be glorified with God and Christ to all eternity And then on the other way there is none of us that doth know nor can conceive what it is to be damned O what a dreadful thing damnation is it is to be banished for ever from the presence of the glorious God and to be tormented with Devils to all eternity 2 Thes 1.9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power It is eternal banishment and separation from God Christ Angels Saints Heaven This is the punishment of loss and the worst of Hell Mat. 25.41 Then shall he say unto them on the left hand depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels O terrible terrible to be doom'd and sentenc'd to lie under the wrath and hatred of the insinitely great and dreadful God for ever and ever so long as God shall live whose being is to eternity so long as there is a Devil to torment or to be tormented shall their plagues last O that people would consider now while they are here in this world and prepare for death To one of these two places their souls must for ever be O that the thoughts of Heaven and the Torments of Hell would cause people to consider and prepare that they might come safe to this Heaven and escape this Hell Oh it doth greatly grieve me when I do seriously think of it of the great number of those which shall be damned and

therefore they minded onely Worldly Matters and things from below And so it is with all others besides they have Worldly Earthly Unsavoury dispositions in them and therefore they desire no other things than such as may be suitable to them Oh that people would bethink themselves and lay to heart their notorious folly in letting out their affections upon such poor mean things of the world a little airy honour an empty pleasure beggarly treasures things of nought Amos 6.12 A Fashion 1 Cor. 7.31 A Fancy Act. 25.23 Vanities Eccles 1.2 Uncertain perishing things all the enjoyments and comforts of the world they are but as liquor in a brittle glass soon crackt and soon lost A Great Man a Bishop once boasted of three things that he could not lose his Riches Learning the Kings Favour but a while after in seeking a blessing on his meat he could not speak sence was forced to beg relief and before he died professed he was sure the King did care more for the worst of his dogs than for him Oh take off your affections from all worldly things study God his insmite perfections that he is an all-sufficient good a suitable permanent everlasting good and that you can never be truly happy till you have an interest in him Oh let out your affections after him Vse 2. Of Exhortation Consider your selves look into your selves where are your desires which way and to what coast do these winds of your souls drive you Is it towards God or towards the world You crave and thirst and long and desire something there is which you would have and cannot be satisfied till you have it now what is it Is it the husks of this world or is it bread Do you pant after the dust of the earth according to the Prophets Phrase Amos 2.7 Or with the Church The desire of our souls is to thy name and to the remembrance of thee Isa 26.8 You are hungry and thirsty unquiet and unsatisfied what is the matter Do you like the dry earth gape and cleave for showers to bring forth Corn and wine Is the voice of your hearts Who will shew us any good or is it Lord lift up the light of thy countenance upon us Physitians judg of the state of their Patients bodies by their appetites they who long for trash speak their stomach foul they who hunger afer wholsom food are esteemed to be in health so ye may judge of the estate of your souls by your desires if you chiefly desire the trash of the world your spiritual state is not right But if you can say with David Psal 73.25 Whom have I in heaven but thee and here is none upon earth that I desire besides thee Blessed are you of the Lord you are in a safe condition but here have a care that your desires be qualified as I spake of before that they be constant desires not occasional desires as it is with some when at a Sermon or in time of danger and fear of death O then such cry out O for an interest in God for a reconciled God but after a while these desires are off again which argues them not to be a thirst which still holdeth on and increaseth changeable desires are false desires and look to it that your desires be ardent desires vehement not low flat weak indifferent as it is with many they pray as if they prayed not seek as if they seek not not pressing not wrestling striving with God Spiritual thirsts are not lazy wishes nor indifferent formal lukewarm requests there is alwayes an edg upon that spiritual appetite which we call thirsting Oh I beseech you consider your selves and know that this is your great interest to have ardent fervent desires after God and that you cannot be contented without an interest in his favour The third thing to be spoken to is Wherein the people of God chiefly long after God and pant to appear before him To this I shall say They do according to the exhibitions and conveyances that God makes of himself to his people Now know that God doth convey himself to his people 1. Here on earth in the way of his Ordinances 2. in Heaven by the immediate communication of himself And in both these respects they vehemently desire after God To speak to these two a little 1. Gods people desire God in ordinances thus it was with David here in this Psalm this was his great desire and longing he was debarrred of the ordinances and now he longs and thirsts after God with a great deal of vehemency and intention Now his soul thirsteth for God It appears that he desired after God in ordinances by that which is said in the 4th verse When I remember how I had gone with the multitude I went with them to the house of God with the voice of joy and praise with a multitude that kept holy day He minds the happiness of his former condition I had gone with the multitude I went to the house of God and we may see what impression this made upon his spirit when he compar'd his former condition with his present his very soul was grieved saith he When I remember these things I pour out my soul in me and this made him to break out in these words Oh when shall I appear before God and Psal 63.1 2. When he was in the Wilderness of Judah My soul thirsteth for thee my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is to see thy power and thy glory so as I have seen thee in thy sanctuary He desires to be restored to the publick ordinances and to his former injoyments of them he would have communion with God in his Ordinances he would have that communion which he had formerly so Psal 84.1 2 How amiable are thy tabernacles O Lord of Hosts My soul longeth yea even fainteth for the courts of the Lord my heart and my flesh crïeth out for the living God Yea he envieth the bird the sparrow and the swallow who might come near the Altars when he was thrust from them and crieth out Blessed are they that dwell in the house of God ver 3 4. and Psal 27.4 One thing have I desired of the Lord that I will seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in his Temple His desire to enjoy God in ordinances had the chief place in his heart above all earthly desires and delights whatsoever one thing have I desired this only thing that I may dwell in the house of the Lord so again Psal 119.20 My soul breaketh for the longing it hath unto thy judgments at all times my soul breaketh What ardent strong desires were in the heart of David after the ordinance No question but David had communion with God in prvate in his closet in his own heart he was not neglective of private duties but frequent