Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	body_n	death_n	separation_n	3,748	5	10.7337	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95992	Counsel for youth; delivered in two sermons upon Psalm 119. vers 9. Preached by H.V. Rector of Alhallows-Honie-lane.	U. H.	1650 (1650)	Wing V6; Thomason E590_9; ESTC R206331	29,168	39

saying Consuetudo est altera natura Custom is another nature and of nature it 's no less true that the Poët saies Naturam expellas furcâ licèt usque recurret Drive awaie nature with a pitch-fork yet it will return It must then bee necessarily granted that it 's an hard thing for young men to reform their waies 3. Remember the four provocations to sin which S t Ambrose observ's in the Prodigal which are oft in other young men 1. His portion which enable's him to the committing of sin which if hee hath in his possession now hee is enabled to lewd living if hee hath it but in hope even this doth embolden him to wicked courses 2. His fathers indulgence by means whereof that is withheld from him by which hee should bee curbed and kept in aw namely severitie of discipline 3. His companie lewd young men like himself from whom hee shall not hear anie thing but evil counsel and encouragement to and in evil and disheartnings from the waie of obedience nor see anie thing but evil example which hath a strong power to corrupt 4. His youth in which there is heedlesness and inexperience In all which respects it cannot but bee a difficult matter for young men to reform their waies 4. If wee compare child-hood and youth together wee shall finde that childe-hood is far more easily kept in order and restrained from sin for 1. The age it self is weak and less acquainted with vice 2. It is fearful and stand's in aw 3. Commonly it is spent under som Aristarchus som severe and rigid School-master But now when young men have the reines cast upon their own necks wee are far more prone to grow wors then better And therefore David considering the difficultie of the business cast's about which waie it may bee effected Vse The thought of this is profitable both for them that have young ones committed to their care and for young ones themselvs 1. For them that have the care of youth committed to them Parents Masters School-masters Guardians Let the thought of this move them in pitie and compassion towards the young persons with whom they are put in trust to bee so much the more helpful to them Consider I beseech you 1. How necessarie it is for young ones to reform their waie Death is an impartiall officer not sparing any for their youth How many young men see wee daily taken out of this world and it 's woful to them and of sad consequence if death shall make a divorce between soul and bodie before a divorce bee made between them and their sins Rom. 6.21 Jam. 1.15 The issue of sin repentance not coming between is death And sin beeing perfected bring 's forth death not onely the first death the perfection of which is the separation of the soul from the bodie but also the second death the perfection of which is the casting of the sinner both in soul and bodie from God the fountain of happiness and his exclusion from everlasting happiness then which there is no greater loss nay none equal to it and the casting of him into hell and the torments of it which are endless easless and remediless Mar. 9. Matth. 25. where the worm never die's and the fire never goe's out even utter darkness where is weeping and wailing gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands and all for ever 2. How difficult a task this Reformation of waies is for young men how many hinderances there are in the wale of it and how many allurements they have to go on in their sinful courses And in both these respects bee yee readie to give them an helping hand do what lie's in you to reclaim them from their sins and so to prevent their everlasting undoing yee would readily think it your dutie to prevent any temporarie mischief towards them in their bodies or estates Know that the soul is far more excellent then either estate or bodie and therefore as yee would shew any love unto them bee specially careful to prevent the ruine of their souls by helping them in this great and difficult business the cleansing of their waies 2. For young men themselvs let not this difficultie of cleansing your waies dis-hearten you from attempting this business let it rather caus you more diligently to set about it It 's a true saying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the things are commonly more excellent in which there is greater difficultie the difficultie therefore of this work and the opposition that Satan make's against it argue's the excellencie and usefulness of it I remember a passage of our learned Whitaker that it was an evident argument of speciall worth and goodness in Luther that the Jesuits were such bitter enemies to him as it 's an argument of good fruit on the tree when yee see boies throwing sticks at it so doth it argue the Reformation of young mens waies to bee specially excellent and useful that Satan doth so much oppose it and cast so many rubs in the waie By how much therefore Satan seek's more to hinder you in the cleansing of your waies by so much more beeing young applie yee your selvs to the doing of it To do easie things is no great matter of prais but to effect things in which wee finde difficultie and meet with opposition this is prais-worthie yea hoc aliquid est voluisse it 's somthing that wee would do it Yee therefore that are young men bee yee persuaded the more difficultie there is in it so much the more sedulously to endeavour the cleansing of your waies Labor to see what is amiss in them and use your best endeavours for the amendment of them And for your encouragement in this kinde consider what follow 's Though it bee difficult yet Propos 6. It 's possible for young men to reform and amend their waies It 's plain in the text It 's possible I saie but not by your own abilities nor by the strength of your own free-will for it 's a business above us it 's true that the Apostle saie's 2 Cor. 3.5 Wee have no sufficiencie as of our selvs so much as to think a good thought all our sufficiencie is of God And for this particular business in hand wee hear what repenting Ephraim said Turn mee and I shall bee turned Jer. 31. Cant. 1.4 and the Church Draw us and wee will run after thee But yet it is possible by the help of God's grace which use's not to bee wanting to them that set themselvs conscionably to the businesses which God hath enjoined unto them And the feasibleness of it appear's in this that it hath been effected in others as David Timothie c. what others have don wee may do by the help of the same grace of God by which they have effected it Vse 1. Let us not presume of our own strength in a business of this nature nor set up the Reformation of our waies as if of our selvs wee were