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lord_n	write_v	young_a	youth_n	54	3	7.9977	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60132	An exhortation to youth to prepare for judgment A sermon occasion'd by the late repentance and funeral of a young man. Deceased September 29. 1681.	Shower, John, 1657-1715.	1681 (1681)	Wing S3664; ESTC R214018	26,182	49

encourage them yea to make them rejoyce Do they sometimes Mourn with a godly sorrow yet may they still rejoyce since to consider the end and effect of that sorrow will give it a mixture of Joy And even their penetential tears do but clear their eyes to look up to Heaven with delight and comfort and enable them the better to read a pardon And here it were easy to shew how their Faith and hope and love how their humility meekness and patience their contentedness with God's allotment their resignation to his Will their satisfaction in his Choyce their well pleasedness with his Order their preparedness for every Condition their diligence in their callings their moderation in the use of lawful things and their innocency and harmlesness in their carriage and behaviour towards others do all contribute to a chearful and a joyful life Therefore well might the Psalmist tell us that the Righteous shall be glad in the Lord Psal 64.10 and all the upright in Heart shall Glory And well might our Lord advise his Disciples not to be lifted up with the gift of Miracles but rejoyce rather that their names were written in Heaven Luke 10.20 And well might the Apostle command Christians to rejoyce not by an Ironie as Solomon here speaks to the Young Man but in the most real and proper sense Rejoyce in the Lord always yea and again I say rejoyce Thus much for the first General 2. Let us consider in that the Wise-man directs his discourse to the Young Man in perticular we have thence a plain intimation that of all others young persons are most apt to neglect the fear of God and be unmindful of their Maker through the temptation of sensual pleasures and youthful lusts Tho' God demand his right as soon as we are capable of understanding it and to serve the Lord from our youth is but just and reasonable considering that so great a part of our life is already cut off by our Infancy and Childhood tho' the longer we delay the greater difficulty shall we meet with when ever we set about it tho' our whole life at longest as soon as we are capable and as long as we did live should be devoted to God and 't is all little enough if we consider its relation to our Eternal State tho' the sooner we begin the more welcome we shall be and the more acceptable our Obedience yea tho' an Early piety be the only hopeful method to prevent the hazard of a sudden death and the terrible reflections of old age and the intolerable pangs a death bed remorse yet such is the power of Original Sin in young persons such and so many are the snares of youth and those so agreeable to their vicious inclinations such the force of prejudice Such the artifices of the Devil and so prevalent the perswasions of evil Company they are usually so proud ignorant and unexperienced so rash hasty and unadvised and so easily infected with Sadducism and the principles of Infidelity so loth to assent to any such premises whose con●l●sion will infer the nessessity of changing their present course that they of all others do most need a serious admonition to remember their latter end and final Judgment least through the temptations of Sensual mirth and pleasure they put the evil day far from them For alas how seldome do we consider in Youth what we are and why we were made or what is our business in the World and what will be the end of our present course Whereas one thought of God and our last Judgment methinks should be enough to drown all other thoughts as the noise of a Canon doth that of a Whisper Sense is so prevalent and Reason so weak we are so much inclined to the one and so unwilling to be led by the other that roys and trifles sports and recreations and the vanities of fools and Children possess our hearts and employ our time not looking behind us to what we have either done or been nor before us whither we are going and what in all likelyhood will be the period of our present mirth and the sad Catastrophe of our Youthful lusts Young persons will hardly be convinced but that Now is their season to be brisk and Jovial having time as they count to command and the World before them that it is time enough to think of Death when they are arrested by sickness or wither'd by old Age let them be concerned about another World who are leaving this their bloed now is warm and their Spirits nimble their senses are quick and their passions strong they will walk in the way of their own hearts and in the sight of their eyes and ordinarily split upon that Rock of Evil company where so many thousand Vessells at their first launching out have dasht in pieces Besides their Age is most inviting to the Devil to bend his chiefest forces against them rather than against Children or Aged persons the former not being capable of making a choice and the latter being fix'd and resolv'd in their way his principal endeavours therefore are levell'd against Youth to draw off their hearts from God and Holy things and to divert their thoughts from the consideration of Death and Judgment which would otherwise restrain and check them in pursuit of their lusts And this brings me to the Third General to consider 3. That for all these things God will bring us to Judgment And therein what Arguments the thoughts of a future Judgment may rationally suggest to damp the carnal mirth of young persons and persuade them to remember their Creatour in the days of their youth And to inforce this Argument I might here mind you of the mischief you will do to others by an ill example and of the aggravation of your sin by employing the best of your time in the service of the Devil which must needs make judgment more terrible in that your final doom the consequences of it will be more severe I might tell you the sooner you repent the more hopeful is your case in reference to a pardon I might largely describe the happy influence of an early Piety with respect to the future part of our lives to direct our choice and govern our actions and prevent a great deal of Sin and shame sorrow and repentance I might mention the comfortable reflections in Old Age upon a well-spent life our capacity of greater Service to God now and our assurance of a weightier crown of Glory hereafter with all the other considerable benefits that have respect either to a safe and happy life a comfortable Old Age and a peacable Death or a joyful Resurrection and a blessed Eternity all which will come under the Argument in the Text and what I shall say of it may be compriz'd under the following particulars 1. Let young persons consider that notwithstanding their present mirth and jollity yet the Judgement of God is infallibly certain It is an