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A03419	A Christian caueat for al estates. Or A sermon, preached by that religious seruant of God, Master George Hockin, Bachelor of Diuinitie, Fellow of Excester Colledge, and preacher to the towne of Totnes in Deuon	Hockin, George, b. 1569 or 70.; I. C., fl. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 13542; ESTC S116598	26,164	49

meanes to escape Gods wrath is to remember him God gaue Israel a Law to bee continued to their posteritie namely to remember God and keepe his Commandements that so they might not bee a faithlesse and stubborne Generation who set not aright their hearts and whose spirit cleaueth not stedfastly vnto God like their fore-fathers and the children of Ephraim who kept not Gods Couenant forgetting God and his wondrous works Psal 78.5 to 12. Here wee may see plainly that the remembrance of God is a meanes to escape his wrath When the Lord had giuen the Israelites abundance and plentie of all things lest they should fall into pride vnthankfulnesse and other sinnes he giueth them this caueat saying When thou hast eaten and art full and hast built goodly houses and dwell therein and when thy Heards and thy Flocke and all thou is multiplied beware and take thou heed thou forgettest not the Lord thy God and lest thy heart be lifted vp and thou forget the Lord thy God but remember the Lord thy God Deut. 8.10 to 18. The Apostle Iude writing against the wicked Seducers that liued in his time prescribeth this as a remedie to escape Gods wrath Remember the words of the Apostles of Iesus Christ Iude 17. Dauid shewing what a combat hee had with Diffidence and Distrust acknowledgeth this to be his remedie whereby he got the victorie the remembrance of God and so after confession of the combat he saith And I said this is mine infirmitie but I will remember the yeeres of the right hand of the most High I will remember the works of the Lord surely I will remember thy wonders of old I will meditate also of all thy works Psal 77.10 We must remember to serue and walke with God by dayes not by weekes and moneths onely Psal 90.12 As the chiefest meanes to escape Gods wrath is to remember the Lord so the speediest meanes to draw downe his iudgements is to forget the Lord. Now consider this yee that forget God that is him and his iudgements against sinne lest I teare you there is the greatnesse of their iudgement and there be no Rescuer that is no hope of deliuerance Psal 50.22 The wicked shall turne into hell and all the Heathens that forget God Psael 9.18 When the people forgate the Lord their God he sold them into the hand of Sisera Captaine of the Host of Hazor and into the hand of the Philistims and into the hand of the King of Moab and they fought against them 1. Sam. 12.9 Seeing thou hast forgotten the Law of thy God I will also forget thy children Hos 4.6 If men forget God hee will forget them forget to shew mercy but he will remember to execute iustice and wrath Thou hast forgotten the mightie God that begate and hast forgotten God that formed thee what then the Lord saw it and was angrie Deut. 32.18 19. If Gods words can worke vs to his will he will spare his blowes Hee hath as little delight in smiting as wee in suffering Hee reioyceth in his owne goodnesse grieueth at our wretchednesse God amplifieth this sinne of forgetfulnesse Can a Maid forget her ornaments or a Bride her attire yet my people haue forgotten mee dayes without number Iere. 2.32 as if he had said their Ornaments Iewels and Rings are but toyes and trifles Is there any Ornament like me Is there any Iewell amongst them all that can be compared with me Men remember their friends often and call them to minde An old man will remember his bagge yet hee will forget God shall such things take vp mens memories and shall God bee thrust out Reas 1 First Wee must remember God our Creator hee made vs happy but mutable but Satan by deceit did cast vs from that happy condition whereby besides the losse of that felicitie we were plunged into extreme miserie which consisteth in two things First in sinne Secondly the curse following vpon it Through sinne the Vnderstanding is filled with blindnesse the conscience wounded seared and defiled the Memorie forgetting good things or not remembring any thing aright the Will captiue of no strength to good but onely to euill the Affections altogether disordered the Cogitations about heauenly matters are errors falsehood and lies the Wishes and Desires of the Heart are earthly and fleshly The Curse maketh vs subiect to Deathes and Famines in Body to sicknesse and other paines Wee should remember God because he promised the Messiah Gen. 3.15 because he hath bought vs with a price 1. Cor. 7.23 because hee hath preserued vs and in the end will glorifie vs. If a man be sanctified with the diuine Nature in which glorie is begun he is iustified if iustified then called according to purpose if called then predestinate if predestinate to meanes then foreknowne as one chosen to the end euen to glorie Of God we receiue euery good thing Iam. 1.17 therefore we should remember him Euery ache and paine is a memento to put vs in minde of God How great is our sinne if we forget him Wee should remember God because of his all-seeing Reas 2 Wisedome for hee seeth all things wee doe though neuer so secretly hee heareth euery word we speake though neuer so tacitely He that planted the eare shall he not heare or he that formed the eye shall hee not see Psal 94.9 Hee knoweth vaine man and seeth iniquitie Iob 11.11 Thou knowest my sitting and my rising thou vnderstandest my thoughts afarre off Thou compassest my pathes and my lying downe and art accustomed to all my waies For There is not a word in my tongue but loe thou knowest it wholly O Lord Psal 139.2 3 4. We should remember his Iustice he is righteous and must needs punish he is a mightie God and is able to punish There is nothing wanting in him which is fit to bee in one on whom wee are to place our trust He is able to helpe vs because he hath power what a power is that which keepes vs to saluation who haue so little strength and lesse wisedome whereby we might stand nay he is Omnipotent Gen. 17.1 He is willing because he loues vs so dearly Ioh. 3.16 Nay to the death Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal 116.15 He is skilfull because all the treasures of knowledge and wisedome are hid in him Coloss 2.3 He is mindfull because his eyes are alwaies open vpon vs he doth neither slumber nor sleepe Psal 121.4 He is carefull because he is Lord and King ouer all he is the King of Kings 1. Tim. 6.15 And he biddeth vs cast all our care vpon him 1. Pet. 5.7 Wee cannot search these things to the full for to see things vnuisible and search things vnsearchable are alike vnpossible Reas 3 We should remember God for he hath giuen vs many helpes of memory First hee hath giuen vs the Scriptures his Word an Epistle sent vs from Heauen that by reading and hearing it wee might remember him

are old because they practised them when they were young If I should be demanded why there are so few good old men I answer because there were so many naughtie young men for youth spent in vanitie commonly ends old age in prophanenesse The Prophet calleth some sinnes Crimson sinnes sinnes of a double die Esay 1.18 If it be right Purple it is dyed both in the Wooll and in the Thread and then it is deepe So if Satan die vs in our Wooll in our youth before we be men before we be made cloth it is likely to sticke by vs. It is in a man as in other things in breaking of Horses luring of Hawkes trayning of Dogges which must be done while they are young so must man in his youth be trained vp in the feare of the Lord. The Diseases of the Spring are more curable then those of Autumne So the sinnes of youth are more curable then those of age but when a man is soaked in them hee is past cure If Satan can make our youth vnprofitable there cannot any good be looked for of the after ages without the great mercy of Almightie God Hence commeth those speeches of sinnes which a man hath continued in I would faine but I cannot leaue them whereby it comes to passe that where one doth recouer fortie rot away If the Deuill nip the Blossome what hope is there of Fruit. When a man hath long had a trustie Seruant he is loth to forgoe him he will rather increase his wages So the Deuill will be loth to forgoe him in his age who serued him in his youth The sinnes of youth sticke fast by a man hee can hardly leaue them youth being like a new Morter wherein if you stampe Garlicke it will a long time smell of it and though they repent and come home yet they carry the smell of the Garlicke Morter wheresoeuer they goe The vessell will rellish of the first liquour What iniurie doe men to themselues by liuing prophanely in youth when they bee old they dare not reprehend so sharply as others nor punish so seuerely as they should because the sinnes of their youth are so in their foreheads that all men see them God will haue the first fruites and the first borne are due to him The Autumne cannot see the fruit of those trees whose blossomes the Spring-time neuer saw If men begin not to loue vertue in youth it will bee a harsh thing for them for to wooe her in old age when the threed of life shall be tentred and drawne euen to the vtmost length Because the Deuill hath a speciall affection to this Reas 2 age knowing that if hee get youth hee hath oftentimes mans age too Sathan doth not easily forsake his hold nor surrender his possession though he be not an Angell of light 2. Cor. 11.14 yet he would be like one Though he seldome speake truth yet he is more beleeued then God the Authour of truth Though he damned many Soules yet hee is serued by youth and followed by them in troupes Hee hath such varieties of pleasures which he presenteth to them that they are bewitched by them hee is an vnreasonable insatiable vsurping tyrant yet youth will not hearken to Gods word who saith resist the deuill Iam. 4.7 It is lamentable that no age doth so much despise the Word as youth which must stand in neede of it It is now a rare thing to find among yong men a Ioseph or a Samuel where they should liue as Nazarites consecrated to the Lord Amos 2.11 they are rather like men who haue vowed and dedicated themselues vnto Sathan As the sonnes of Eli despised the rebuke of their father So yong men now for the most part are impatient of of the rebukes of the Word contemning the medicine The prodigall sonne had foure prouocations First his portion Secondly his fathers indulgence Thirdly ill companie Fourthly youth these the Deuill vseth as so many baites to take young men withall these hurt yong men much Till the portion was spent the prodigall thought not vpon returning home The prodigall man while he spendeth is magnified when hee is spent is pitied and that is all his recompence for his lauishing The indulgence of the father to conniue winke at the faults of their Children doth breede in their Children a forgetfulnesse of their Creator Ill companie hurt youth for such are they for the most part as they are with whom familiarly they liue and with whom for the most part they spend their time All waters in temperature in colour and in taste agree with the nature and the disposition of those grounds and of that earth through which they make their secret passages and their wayes In like manner men practise those things which by frequent custome they haue deriued to themselues from those with whom they haue conuersed Youth is so wanton and wild so rude and vnruly so lose and lewde that vnlesse God saue the Deuill will destroy vnlesse God draw them the Deuill will keepe them Reas 3 Young men should remember their Creator in youth considering their naturall corruption they are corrupt Children Esa 1.4 They know nothing but how to corrupt themselues their wayes their liues their actions their neighbours by euill councel and euill examples themselues by euill exercises This naturall corruption is most deformed a monster both vgly and fearefull If naturall corruption will haue yong men eate till they surfeite and drinke till they bee drunke you shall finde multitudes of them that will doe it though they consume goods body estate and damme the Soule If naturall corruption will haue yong men bee wantons there will bee some that will fit and addresse themselues for it by lurking here and there in corners frequenting dishonest places vsing idle and immodest Exercises corrupt and rotten communication stuffed with vaine vnfruitfull Iestes and prophane passages It is a thing most lamentable and neuer enough to bee bewailed to see many young persons whose dayly practise and trade of life is to corrupt their flesh in lying deceiuing seeking vnlawfull and vngodly gaines slaundring and backbiting their neighbours spending their time wantonly and wickedly for which one day they must giue account to GOD. The first vse serueth for our instruction seeing Vse 1 yong men are hardest to bee reformed they should learne to bee Godly in their youth It is good for a man to beare the yoke in his youth Lament 3.17 It is good for a man to remember his Creator in his youth Some will say shall youth spend no time in pleasure What not halfe a mans youth Not a day now and then not an houre Surely GOD will not allow a minute of time to bee spent in vaine Yong men will say wee will become good and liue Grauely hereafter and behaue our selues soberly we will amend when we are old This is to make a couenant with the Deuill thou wilt be Gods but not yet As Foelix said to Paul Goe thy way