Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	bishop_n	church_n	ephesus_n	1,251	5	11.4920	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29240	Times treasury, or, Academy for gentry laying downe excellent grounds, both divine and humane, in relation to sexes of both kindes : for their accomplishment in arguments of discourse, habit, fashion and happy progresse in their spirituall conversation : revised, corrected and inlarged with A ladies love-lecture : and a supplement entituled The turtles triumph : summing up all in an exquisite Character of honour / by R. Brathwait, Esq.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1652 (1652)	Wing B4276; ESTC R28531	608,024	537

Devotion lineally obliged R I BRATHWAIT THE ENGLISH GENTLEMAN Youth Argument The dangers that attend on Youth The vanitie of Youth display'd in foure distinct Subjects Three violent passions incident to Youth Physicke prescribed and receits applied to cure these Maladies in Youth Youth HOwsoever some more curiously than needfully may seeme to reason that there be diverse Climactericall or dangerous yeeres in mans time sure I am that in mans age there is a dangerous time in respect of those Sinne-spreading Sores which soile and blemish the glorious image of the Soule And this time is Youth an affecter of all licentious liberty a Comicke introducer of all vanitie and the onely 〈◊〉 apparent to carnall securitie This it was which moved that princely Prophet to pray Lord forgive me the sinnes of my youth Sinnes indeed because the youthfull sinner is ever committing but never repenting usually provoking God but rarely invoking God This is he who Snuffeth the wind with the wild Asse in the desart being like the Horse or Mule which hath no understanding by giving Sense preeminence above Reason and walking in the fatnesse of his heart as one wholly forgetfull of God He may say with the Psalmist though in another sense Vt jumentum factus sum apud te upon exposition of which sentence it is laudable saith Euthymius that in the sight of God we take our selves as Beasts to shew our humility but not to resemble beasts in ignorance or brutish sensuality Many are the dangerous shelfes which menace ruine and shipwrack to the inconsiderate and improvident Soule during her sojourning here in this Tabernacle of clay but no time more perilous than the heat of Youth or more apt to give fuell to the fire of all inordinate desires being as ready to consent as the Devill is to tempt and most willing to enter parley with her spirituall enemy upon the least assault It is reported by Eusebius that S. Iohn meeting a strong young-man of good stature amiable feature sweet countenance and great spirit straightway looking upon the Bishop of that place he said thus unto him Christ being witnesse and before the Church I commend unto thee and thy care this young man to be especially regarded and educated in all spirituall discipline Whom when the Bishop had received into his tuition and promised that he would performe whatsoever he ought Saint Iohn againe and againe gives his charge and contesteth his fidelity and afterwards he returnes to Ephesus The Bishop takes the young man home brings him up as his owne sonne keepes him within the limits of his duty intreats him gently and at last baptizeth him and confirmes him Afterwards upon remitting something of his care and giving freer reines to his liberty the young man takes occasion to shake off the yoke of tuition and fals into bad company who corrupt him diverting his course from the path of vertue by these meanes First they invite him to banquets then they carry him abroad in the Night afterward to maintaine their profuser expence they draw him to theevery and so by degrees to greater wickednesse being now made Captaine in this theevish company At last Saint Iohn returnes and saith Goe to Bishop give me my depositum which I and Christ committed unto thee in the Church which thou gouernest This Bishop was astonied thinking that he had deceitfully demanded some money which he never received and yet durst scarce distrust the Apostle But as soone as Saint Iohn said I demand the young man and soule of my brother the old man hanging downe his head sighing and weeping said Ille mortuus est he is dead How and with what kind of death said Iohn Deo mortuus est he is dead unto God answered the Bishop Nam nequam perditus uno verbo Latro evasit for he is wicked and lost and in a word a Theefe Much matter might be collected from this Story to inlarge the ground of our Proposition to wit what imminent dangers are ever attending on Youth and how easie it is by the painted flag of vanity and sensuall pleasure to draw him to ruine For doubtlesse many excellent rules of instruction had this grave Bishop delivered and imparted to his young Pupill many devout taskes and holy exercises had he commended to his practice many prayers full of fervent zeale had he offered for his conversion many sighes had he sent many teares had he shed to reclaime him from his former conversation Yet see how soone this youthfull Libertine forgets those instructions which he had taught him those holy taskes which were injoyned him those zealous prayers which were offered for him those unfained sighes and teares which were shed for him He leaves this aged Father to become a Robber he fl●es from the Temple to the mountaine he puts off the robe of truth and disguiseth himselfe with the vizard of theft And no small theefe but a Leader Rachel was a theefe for shee stole idols from her father Iosuah was a theefe seeing he stole grapes from Canaan David was a theefe seeing he stole the bottle of water from Saul Ionathan was a theefe since he stole hony from the hive Iosaba was a theefe since he stole the infant Ioash But here was a theefe of another nature one whose vocation was injury profession theevery and practice cruelty one whose ingratitude towards his reverend Foster-father merited sharpest censure for Bysias the Grecian Osiges the Lacedemonian Bracaras the Theban and Scipio the Roman esteemed it lesse punishment to bee exiled than to remaine at home with those that were ungratefull for their service So as it is not only griefe but also a perillous thing to have to doe with ungratefull men And wherein might ingratitude bee more fully exemplified than in this Young-man whose disobedience to his Tutor sleighting his advice that had fostered him deserved severest chastisement But to observe the cause of his fall wee shall finde how soone those good impressions which he had formerly received were quite razed and defaced in him by reason of depraved company whence we may gather that Youth being indeed the Philosophers rasa tabula is apt to receive any good impressure but spotted with the pitch of vice it hardly ever regaines her former puritie Whence we are taught not to touch pitch lest we ●e defil●d● for as that divine Father saith Occasiones faciunt Latrones Truth is the sweetest Apples are the soonest corrupted and the best natures quickliest depraved How necessary therefore the care and respect Youth ought to have in the choyce and election of his Company may appeare by this one example which sheweth that Society is of such power as by it Saints are turned into Serpents Doves into Devils for with the wise we shall learne wisedome and with the foole we shall learne foolishnesse Dangerous therefore it is to leave illimited Youth to it selfe yea to suffer Youth so much as to converse with it selfe