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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26462	Advice to the English youth relating to the present juncture of affairs.		1688 (1688)	Wing A655; ESTC R25837	8,053	4

Providence than to our Choice I also further Observe That the very same Reason which makes Turks hate Christians makes Christians hate Turks and makes the several Parties of Christians hate one onother and that is our thoughts of their being wicked and in the wrong And say they Why do you Accuse us Would not you have us Hate and Persecute Wickedness and Falshood and eagerly Pursue Goodness Virtue and Truth Yes say I by any means But be sure you be not mistaken have a care of calling Virtue Vice and Vice Virtue for not to be truly and rightly Informed is of the most dangerous Consequence in the World for it will most certainly Plunge both you and others into Inevitable Ruine What it has done it will do again it has Ruined others and will Ruine you This is not only the Unhappy and Miserable Case of this Nation but of all Christendom And no wonder indeed men are so hardly and with so great difficulty perswaded to cease their Mutual Severity and to become Mild Gentle and Peaceable when all the while they think and are certainly perswaded that they are Prosecuting Wickedness and Vice pursuing Virtue doing their Duty performing the Actions of Religion and offering a Sacrifice pleasing to their Maker Well it is so and you are the Off-spring of such a Generation the Sons of such Parents Servants to such Masters You are Heirs to their Mistakes as well as their Lands and have Learned their Principles as well as Trades and will be possessed of their Consequent Misery and as certainly Ruine your selves if you begin not to be Wise as they have done You are in a manner ready Armed like Cadmus's Men as soon as you are Born and in a Posture ready to destroy one another O Unhappy Case of English-men But 't is not the Nature of the English the Nature of Religion or Divisions but 't is our Indiscretion our Ill-Managery 't is the Unhappiness of our Educations And I Appeal both to you and your Instructors whether ever either of you felt any Regret or Remorse in your Consciences in Worshipping God in the way you were Bred to but rather much Complacency and Delight Every one is pleased in his own way and displeased with another and that purely on the Score of Education and we are Fierce or Calm Angry or Pleased with one another not because we are in the right or have Reason on our side but because we are Prepossessed and differently Educated And all our habits of Love or Hatred our great and high Veneration or pitiful and contemptible Thoughts and Apprehensions for this or that Particular Way or Method this or that Sort or Party of Men is all Infused and Taught us And had you been let alone you had had no Hatred for this or Love for that way and therefore I Ascribe almost all the Misery wich you may have by your being Religious to the Unhappiness of your Respective Educations But your Parents must not be blamed for teaching you their Respective ways and they had not shewed themselves good Parents and had betrayed a great deal of neglect had they not Instructed you in the way which they thought would bring you to Salvation But they have done it and you are ready to enter upon the Stage Invested in the very same Circumstances Instructed in the same Principles and ready to act the very same part which they have done and you will of necessity as I said before have the same Misery which is Entailed upon you unless you assist in getting the Entail to be cut off Now his Gracious Majesty like a Loving Father has entered a Caveat already and is about to cut off the Grand Entail of Misery which has so long Afflicted his People and will Order things so that your Respective Educations shall bring no hurt or damage to you that you shall be of the Religion your Fathers or Principals have taught you and have not the least Disturbance in that or any other which you shall think most fit to bring you to Heaven for Disturbance herein has been the principal cause of our Misery Your Fathers have been long in the Wilderness but you are the Children of Promise that must enter the Land of Canaan you are in View of the Happy place already your Fathers some of them indeed are in love with Garlick and Onyons and despise the Heavenly Manna they look back towards Egypt and have been so long in Slavery that they are almost in love with their Chains This is of bad Consequence for you and it concerns you to make an Humble Filial Address unto them that they make no further delays but that they would chearfully and readily in compliance to His Majesties Desire consent to have the Entail of Misery cut off and that your being Heirs to their Lands and Estates will signifie little if they make you also Heirs to their Misery which will destroy them or hinder your peaceable Enjoyment of them May be at last they may be Wise and Consider If they will not Then you may expect what your Progenitors have had nothing but Misery Trouble and Confusion You may expect Goals and Imprisonments Fines and Banishment to be driven from your Friends and Relations from your Trades and Employments from your Wives and Children and Native Countrey and must be put to a miserable Choice To seek your Livelihoods in a Forreign Countrey or be ruined in your Own And lastly You will most certainly be involved in all the Calamities Plots Treasons Rebellions c. which men crossed and hindred in there ways to obtain Eternal Happiness or shun Eternal Misery can hatch or invent and as you cannot avoid being Actors therein so you will most certainly be Partakers of the Punishment due thereto But if they will consent and you wrestle so as to prevail then you will have the Blessing your Land will be as a Field which the Lord hath Blessed you will have the Dew of Heaven and the Fatness of the Earth you will make your Island the Mistress of the Isles of the whole Earth a Land Flowing with Milk and Honey Riches and Honour will encompass you Peace and Plenty will surround you you will be Assistant to your Friends a Terrour to your Enemies and the Envy and Admiration of all about you Too long too long has the Noble and Brave Spirits of the English Youth been Oppressed and kept Under Too long have they been shackled by Religious Mistakes and Superstitious Vanities Methinks I see the Glorious Sun Arising o'er their Heads which will Dispel all the Mists of Error the Clouds of Oppression and Persecution and will Clear all the Thick and dark Foggs and let them see their way to Honour that will raise their Blood stir up their Courage and let them be as much English as they please Aegypt and Moab and Ammon are afraid already and if they be afraid now when you but rouse your selves and only in your Dawn what will they do when they see you in your Meridian Was there but a Great Charter setled this would Entitle you to all the above Happinesses and you might be as Valiant as Industrious as Honest as Good as Religious as you please You might sit under your own Vine and own Fig-Tree Eat your Bread Enjoy your own or your Ancestors Labour without Fear or Disturbance But now you can do nothing you are rather Passive then Active and can only do what you are bid or Taught your are held fast in a Ginn and encompassed with Snares and stand entituled to nothing but Misery eternal Brawls and Wranglings But who are your Enemies Who are the Authors of so much Unhappiness Surely not your Friends your Relations your Parents they are Obliged in Duty and Conscience to do you all the good they can Aye but 't is they O Unhappy Education which Involves not only themselves but their Posterity in Misery They are Obliged to do you good indeed But alas Mistaken men They hinder you when they think they forward you and really believe they are doing you good when they are plunging you into all the unhappiness imaginable But when men call Evil Good there is no room left for Counsel and Advice and therefore I know not what to say further But shall Pray out the rest and say O Lord Almighty God King of Heaven and Earth Thou that hast turned the Heart of the King turn also and move the Hearts of his People Turn the Hearts of the Fathers to the Children and the Childrens to their Fathers Wean them from their Prejudices and Partialities give them a right Understanding in all things let Mutual Severities and Animosities cease and Mutual Charity and Condescention more and more abound Truly Instruct them all in the things that belong to their Peace both here and hereafter And this I humbly beg for Jesus Christ his sake FINIS WITH ALLOWANCE LONDON Printed by George Larkin at the Two Swans without Bishopsgate 1688.