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Advice to young persons, relating both to faith & practice contain'd in some plain directions how to demean themselves : together with some few motives to the observation of what is here recommended.
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Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696.
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And remember that the wisest Man in the World is not able to foretel what one day may bring forth Ye know not what shall be on the morrow For what is your life It is even as a Vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away James 4. 14. Since then the day of your departure is so uncertain be ye always ready that so when the King of Terrors shall seize you he may not with astonishment surprize you but that Death being disarm'd of its sting may serve to compose you for the Sweetest sleep and so you may lay you down in Peace and take your rest O watch continually for ye know not at what hour your Lord will come Mat. 24. 42. Lastly For a full inducement to the Practice of these Precepts and for the Observation of whatever is good often remember that the more Religious you now are and the more that you influence others to be Religious here the more you shall be rewarded hereafter Know and be assur'd that if you carefully husband and industriously by Gods Blessing improve your talents you shall receive a proportionable Recompence of Reward from your Gracious Lord and Master Mat. 25. 21. And let the words of the prophet Daniel continually dwell with you Dan. 12. 3. They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the Firmament and they that turn many unto Righteousness as the Stars for ever and ever These things out of pure tenderness to your immortal Souls O ye young Persons I recommend to you And now God of his infinite Goodness give you Grace to observe them that so ye may reap the Rewards of your Religion and be happy for ever To God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost be all Honour and Glory both now and evermore Amen PRAYERS ALmighty and Everlasting God who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost forgive the Sins of all them that are penitent create and make in me a new and contrite Heart that I worthily lamenting my sins and acknowledging my wretchedness may obtain of thee the God of all mercy perfect Remission and forgiveness through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen ALmighty and Everlasting God give unto me the Increase of Faith Hope and Charity and that I may obtain that which thou dost promise make me to love that which thou dost command through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O God who hast prepar'd for them that love thee such good things as pass mans Vnderstanding pour into mine heart such love towards thee That I loving thee above all things may obtain thy Promises which exceed all that we can desire through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen ALmighty God who seest that we have no power of our selves to help our selves keep me both outwardly in my Body and inwardly in my Soul that I may be defended from all Adversities which may happen to the Body and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the Soul through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O God the Creator and Preserver of all mankind I humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known unto them thy saving health unto all nations more especially I pray for the good Estate of the Catholick Cburch that it may be so guided and Governed by thy good Spirit that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth and hold the Faith in Vnity of Spirit in the Bond of Peace and in Righteousness of life finally I commend to thy Fatherly goodness all those who are any way afflicted or distressed in Mind Body or Estate that it may please thee to comfort and relieve them according to their several necessities giving them Patience under their sufferings and a happy issue out of all their Afflictions And this I beg for Jesus Christ his sake Amen ALmighty God Father of all mercies I thine unworthy Servant do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving kindness to me and to all men I bless thee for my Creation Preservation and all the Blessings of this Life But above all for thine inestimable love in the Redemption of the World by our Lord Jesus Christ for the means of Grace and for the hope of Glory And I beseech thee give me that due sence of all thy mercies that mine heart may be unfeignedly thankful and that I may shew forth thy Praise not only with my lips but in my life by giving up my self to thy service and by walking before thee in Holiness and Righteousness all my days through Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all Honour and Glory world without end Amen LOrd of all power and might who art the Author and giver of all good things graft in my heart the Love of thy Name increase in me true Religion nourish me with all Goodness and of thy great mercy keep me in the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen GRant O Lord that as I am baptized into the Death of thy Blessed Son our Saviour Jesus Christ so by continual mortifying my corrupt Affections I may be buried with him and that through the Grave and Gate of Death I may pass to my joyful Resurrection for his merits who died and was buried and rose again for us thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord Amen PRevent me O Lord in all my doings with thy most Gracious Favour and further me with thy continual help that in all my Works begun continued and ended in thee I may glorify thy Holy Name and finally by thy mercy may obtain everlasting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord in whose Name and words I call upon thee further saying Our Father which art in c. The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Love of God and the Fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with me now and evermore Amen FINIS ERRATA IN page 10. l 24 for thou read you p 23. l 20. for advice r. advise p 34 l. 1. after offer r. the lame and sick is it not evil offer it p. 36. l. 19. for benificial r. beneficial
ADVICE TO Young Persons Relating both to Faith Practice Contain'd in some Plain Directions how to Demean themselves Together with some few Motives to the Observation of what is here recommended Wherewithal shall a Young Man cleanse his way by taking heed thereto according to thy Word Psal 119. 9. London Printed for Brabazon Aylmer at the Three Pidgeons against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil Price 2d To his much Honour'd Patron The Author THo' it is our great Calamity to live in a most corrupt Age Yet by the Influence of the All-wise and All powerful God who can derive good out of Evil you are so Prudent as to make an Advantage of it and to raise the value of your Vertue and to add to the Lustre and Worth of your Reputation and Family by being untainted in the midst of most dangerous Temptations SIR I might tell the World that the following Lines were drawn as a faint Copy from the fair Original which you give and that the ensuing Precepts are taken from your Pattern But lest I should call up the Blood into your Cheeks by offering Violence to your singular Modesty or throw my self under the Suspicion of Flattery I will convert my just Praises of you into earnest Prayers for you that that good God who hath hitherto preserv'd you would still preserve you that you may go on by an Vnspotted Life still to glorify him and by your most agreeable Temper to win over others to Piety and Vertue and to answer the Care and Kindness of that Learned and Worthy Person by whom your tender Mind was inform'd and your early Manners cultivated from whom in your Minority I receiv'd the largest share of what I have and so stand perpetually oblig'd to return the most grateful Acknowledgment And lastly That you may grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ until you come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ This is the earnest Prayer of Sir Your most Obliged Most devoted and Most Humble Servant ADVICE TO Young Persons FOrasmuch as 't is generally acknowledg'd that to perswade Young Persons to be Dutiful and Good would prove an Effectual Means to recover Souls out of the hands of Satan to reform the World and to retrieve Religion and Vertue therefore this small Treatise is sent abroad on purpose to exhort and if it be possible for it to perswade those who in their younger days are more especially beset with Temptations and more easily invited into a compliance with them that they should by God's Grace preserve their standing Or if fal'n that they should speedily rescue themselves out of their Slavery and henceforward fear the Lord always and keep his Commandments And may that same Good God who puts into our hearts good Desires by his continual help make us to bring them to good Effect through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen First then Let me perswade young Persons to lay such a steady and Unshaken Foundation of Faith that the Gates of Hell may never prevail against it For them who design to answer the main End of Christianity this Advice is always seasonable But never was this Advice more seasonable than it is in our present Age An Age wherein almost every particular Person is ready to broach some particular Opinion Insomuch that the old Land-marks of Faith are removed and the main Principles of the Gospel of Grace and Salvation by Christ doubted of disputed and denied O let it be your great concern then First To believe in God the Father who hath made you and all the World Secondly in God the Son who hath redeemed you and all mankind Thirdly in God the Holy Ghost who sanctifieth you and all the Elect People of God First then let it be your Concern to believe in God the Father who by the Son Heb. 1. 2. and by the Efficacy of the Holy Ghost Gen. 1. 2. Made the whole World Heaven and Earth and all created Beings which are contained therein And upon this Belief let it be your Business to give God the Father that Reverence that is due unto him as our Wonderful Creator This is that great Lord who made Heaven and Earth and the Sea and all that in them is Acts. 4. 24. This is our Father which is in Heaven Mat. 6. 9. In his Hand are all the Corners of the Earth and the strength of the Hills is his also the Sea is his and he made it and his hands prepar'd the dry Land And therefore O come let us Worship and fall down and kneel before him Psal 95. 3. And say with the Psalmist I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy works and that my soul knoweth right well Psal 139. 14. Secondly You are stedfastly to believe in God the Son For that he is truly God the Apostle expresly declares Rom. 9. 5. where speaking of Christ he saith that he is over all God Blessed for ever and so St. John we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ this is the true God and Eternal life 1 John 5. 20. But we are not only to believe this Son to be God but also that he redeem'd us and all mankind And that this Son of God paid the Price of Redemption for all Mankind who can doubt that believes the Scripture for there is one Mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus who gave himself a Ransom for all 1 Tim. 2. 5 6. And again he tasted Death for every man Heb. 2. 9. And here common Gratitude prompts and directs you to your Duty For since ye were bought with a Price even with the Price of the most precious Blood of the Son of God You are strongly oblig'd to glorify God in your Bodies and in your Spirits which are his 1 Cor. 6. 20. Thirdly You are faithfully to believe in God the Holy Ghost who sanctifies you and all the elect People of God that the Holy Ghost is God is plain from Acts the 5th verses the 3 d. and the 4th in the 3 d. verse St Peter propos'd this Question Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost and because Ananias thus lied to the Holy Ghost he tells him verse the 4th Thou hast not lied unto Men but unto God Nay before that when the Pharisees upon our Saviours casting out a Devil ascrib'd the operation to Belzebub the Prince of Devils our Saviour call'd this Sin that Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost which shall never be forgiven By which words the most Learned and Reverend Bishop Pearson observ'd amongst several other Arguments to that purpose that it appeareth that there is a Sin or Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost distinct from all other Sins and Blasphemies committed against God the Father or the Son of God that this Sin hath an Aggravation added unto it beyond other Sins and Blasphemies But if the Holy Spirit were no Person the Sin could not