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Counsel for youth; delivered in two sermons upon Psalm 119. vers 9. Preached by H.V. Rector of Alhallows-Honie-lane.
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the particulars against persecution and slanders hear our Saviour comforting us Matth. 5.10 Blessed are they that suffer persecution for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven ver 11. Blessed are yee when men shall revile and persecute you and speak all manner of evil against you falsly for my Names sake ver 12. Rejoice and bee exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven for so they persecuted the Prophets which were before you Against the loss of all for the testimonie of a good Conscience Matth. 19.29 hear what hee saie's by waie of comfort Every one that shall forsake houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my names sake shall receiv an hundred fold and shall inherit everlasting life Against imprisonment hear that Rev. 2.10 Fear none of the things which yee shall suffer for the divel shall cast som of you into prison that yee may bee tried and yee shall have tribulation ten daies Bee thou faithfull unto death and I will give thee the crown of life Against the frowns and threatnings of men hear that comfort Matth. 10.28 Fear not them that kill the bodie and are not able to kill the soul are not two sparrows sold for a farthing ver 29. and one of them shall not fall to the ground without your father ver 30. But the very hairs of your head are numbered ver 31. fear not therefore yee are of more value then many sparrows Against the thanklesness of the world for the service which yee do 1 Cor. 15.58 hear the Apostle Knowing that your labor shall not bee in vain in the Lord. In a word against all afflictions to the suffering of which ye may bee exposed hear that ground of comfort 2 Cor. 4.17 Our light afflictions which are but for a moment Rom. 8.17 shall work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glorie ver 18. and that If so bee that wee suffer with him that is with Christ wee shall bee also glorified together for I reckon that all the afflictions of this present life are not worthie to bee compared with the glories that shall bee revealed in us Thus is the Word of God able to animate us against all those things that may dishearten us from the cleansing of our waie yea thus is it every waie usefull to help us in this business Vse 1. Let us bee thankful to God for that hee hath given us his Word so singularly useful in all kinds for the dispatch of so great a business and so necessarie as is the reforming of our waies A jewel it is of special price David in respect of that part of it which was then written which was the Pentateuch the five books of Moses could yet rais up himself and others to the praising of God Hee hath saie's hee shewed his Word unto Jacob Psal 147.19.20 his statutes and his judgments unto Israel Hee hath not dealt so with any nation and as for his judgments they have not known them and thence hee infer's Hallelu-jah Praise yee the Lord how much more have wee caus to bless the Name of our God who hath given us the sacred Canon perfect not onely the books of Moses as the Text but the writings of the Prophets as a Comment thereon nor onely the books of the Old Testament which were the New Testament veiled but also the books of the New Testament which are the Old Testament reveiled wee may much more saie Non taliter fecit Deus omni populo God hath not dealt so with other people how many great nations are there in the world to whom the Word of God hath not com they for want of it sit in darkness and in the region of the shadow of death but the light hath shined on us they are as Egypt under that plague of darkness Exod. 10.22.23 that might bee felt wee as the Israëlites in Goshen having light in their dwellings St Paul moving the question Rom. 3.1 What is the preferment of the Jews what is the benefit of circumcision presently return's answer Verily great every waie specially becaus the Oracles of God were committed unto them v. 2. how great then is our preferment What caus have wee then to bee thankful unto God 2. Let us all and do yee young men make use of the Word of God for this blessed purpose for the cleansing of your waies To this purpose wee see it 's profitable and for this end God hath afforded it to us to this purpose then let us make use of it that wee frustrate not God's exspectation and therefore 1. That wee may see what hath been amiss in our lives let us frequently compare our selvs with the Word of God and look our selvs in this Glass bring wee our words actions and thoughts to a privie search hereby It 's the counsel of the Prophet Lam. 3.40 Let us search and trie our waies and turn again to the Lord Repentance is necessarie as that without which it's impossible to bee saved Luke 13.3 for so our Saviour saie's Except yee repent yee shall all likewise perish would yee not perish repent but the searching of our waies is enjoined as subservient to the turning to the Lord implying that as Salvation is not atteinable without repentance so repentance is impossible without search of our waies Psal 119.59 and the same is implied in that speech of the Psalmist I considered my waies and turned my feet unto thy testimonies Oh then neglect not this business of the search of your waies Call to minde the thoughts of your heart the words of your mouth the works of your hands consider them whether they bee good or bad and to this end trie them by the touch-stone of the Word weigh them in this ballance of the Sanctuarie if yee finde them agreeable with this Word or not contrarie to it yee may conclude them to bee lawful and good but if they bee contrarie to it they are sinful and damnable this Word of God is a true and sure Glass that will represent things to us as indeed they are and will not deceiv us If wee stand to the verdict of our own imagination wee may bee deceived There is a waie saie's Solomon that is right in a man's eies Prov. 14.12 but the end thereof are the waies of death If wee stand to the verdict of men wee may bee deceived there are in the world flattering sycophants that for a meals meat having mens persons in admiration will call evil good darkness light bitter sweet praising those things which will prove bitter in the end and there are rigid censurers who will call good evil and light darkness and sweet bitter But if wee stand to the judgment of the Word of God wee cannot bee deceived by the consonancie of our words thoughts and actions with this Word