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A57574	Early religion, or, The way for a young man to remember his Creator proposed in a sermon preach'd upon the death of Mr. Robert Linager, a young gentleman, who left this world, Octob. 26, 1682, with an account of some passages of his life and death / by T. Rogers.	Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728.; Veel, Edward, 1632?-1708.	1683 (1683)	Wing R1849; ESTC R27563	39,498	63

unhappy an Education I cannot but have charitable thoughts of him believing that if ever Death-bed Repentance be sincere it is in those that being Young are not so hardned in Sin nor have resisted so many motions of Gods Spirit nor rejected so many offers of Grace as Older Sinners have done However let not Young ones presame upon the account of this or any like Instance but Remember their Creator in the Days of their Youth and health considering their Lives are in Gods Hand who is a soveraign and may as well not give them Hearts to repent when Old as not give them Time to grow Old How many are Nipt in the Bud or Cut off in the Flower of their age when their Hearts are filled with Wordly lusts and their Minds lifted up with worldly Hopes And they Dream of nothing less than the End of their Days and an Eternal State Were there the Reason and Judgment of Elder Men in the Heads of the Younger it might be an easiertask to deal with them but Youth is a slippery Age full of Passion Rashness wilfulness and so apt to despise the Counsel of those that are more Grave and experienced and to think it proceeds not so much from the Love they have to Young Souls as the Envy they bear to their Youthful pleasures But what folly is this and how much to be lamented in them if we cannot reclaim them from it Can you Sirs Clip the Wings of Time that it may not fly from you or put off the approach of Eternity that it may not hasten upon you Can your Lusts and pleasures prevent your Death or prepare you for it think seriously of it and you will be of my Mind Why then are ye not up and doing as soon as you can Why do you not Work out your Salvation as Hard as you can all your Time and strength are little enough for such a Work Let every Example of Mortality in others and this in particular mind you of your own Live like those that know you must die and so as you will certainly wish you had lived when you come to die You are growing up to be the Successors of us that are Elder and to fill up our places in the World when we are gone out of it May you out-do us in all that is good and praise-worthy may your Zeal for God and Holiness shame the degeneracy and Coldness of present professors Religion loses ground in this age if you keep it not up in your selves it will be quite lost in the next And therefore I must again inculcate what is the scope of this discourse begin betimes and give God your strength and the Morning of your Day never think it too soon to turn to him nor too long to serve him you will not count an whole Eternity too much for your own Happiness do not count your whole Life too much for his service The Lord himself give you Counsell who is able by the Power of his Grace to make you willing to take it which is the unfeigned desire of him who is Your Souls Friend and Servant for Jesus Sake E. Veal A Funeral Sermon ECCLES 12.1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy Youth while the evil days come not nor the Years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them VVHEN we seriously consider the miserable and uncertain State of Men since the Fall of Adam how many wide Breaches the Transgression of our first Parents has made both for spiritual and eternal Dangers to enter in upon us and yet how secure and careless Men are of their Danger it ought to affect our Hearts with a great Tenderness and Pity but it ought much more to affect us if we consider that of all others Young Men are generally the most careless though they are besieged with more Enemies and liable to more Dangers yet for the most part they are employed in mean Affairs that have no Relation to their Happiness and are forgetful of their God and the deplorable Condition of their own Souls Secure they are though they have in their Bodies the Seeds of innumerable Distempers one whereof when it shall be conceived and brought forth will destroy its own Parent They remember not that the Clock that is now wound up and performs its regular and daily Motions and goes well must have all its Wheels broken or when the Maker pleases run down again Happy were the Persons that might put a stop to them in their mad Career or awaken them to serious Apprehensions of their real Interest before the hour of Darkness and the day of Death It hath pleased God in whose disposal are the Lives of Men by the taking away of one young Man lately from the World in his fresh and tender Age to give me this occasion at the desire of his Acquaintance to speak to others of the things that immediately concern their eternal State and how they should by his Example be taught in their early days to repent of Sin and to prepare for a better World I hope the same God will make this a merciful Season to us that are yet among the Living that we may by the memorial of the Deceased be in a continual preparation for that time when we shall hear his Call and leave the World And that we may be so let us attend to the grave Counsel of this Preacher the wisest of Men that after a long Experience of all that had but a shew of Pleasure or was accounted worthy to be loved by the Sons of Men reap'd nothing but Vexation and Bitterness and a sharp Remembrance and therefore concluded that it was most useful and expedient to guard the Mind against those Follies and betimes to remember God In the former Chapter having explained what were the Comforts and Happiness of Life Vers 7 that the Light was sweet and that it was a pleasant thing for the Eyes to behold the Sun i.e. to enjoy a prosperous unafflicted State and all that our Hearts can well desire Yet he tells us that though we live many Years Vers 8 and rejoyce in them all yet we ought to remember the Days of Darkness for they will be many After we have satisfied our Appetites with all that is delicious and grateful we must retire into the next World and dwell for a long time in the gloomy Chambers of the Grave Then he upbraids the Follies and Neglects of Young Men that are immers'd in sensual Delights not thinking of the Day of Judgment and that great Account that must be made hereafter at the Bar of God And the Preacher concludes his Sermon of the Unsatisfactoriness and Vanity of all sensual transitory Things with this serious Application Remember thy Creator now in the days of thy Youth c. In which Words we may observe 1. The Duty it self To remember God 2. The time when it is to be practised Now in the days of Youth 3. The reason of this

slide into the dark Pit from which there will be no Redemption We may be surprized with the loud Thunder and the roaring Cannon when we think there is no Danger and when we flatter our selves with the vain Hopes of Peace and Safety sudden Destruction may come upon us 1. Thes v. 3. as Travel upon a Woman with Child To what shall I compare the Miseries of that young Man that is taken away in the midst of all his Pleasures and before he hath well thought of Death 'T is as dreadful as if you should see a Person in the midst of all his Mirth and Laughter immediately fall down Dead so that he cannot by all the Tears of his Friends nor by all the Chafing and Applications that are made be fetch'd to Life again A Surprizal that carries with it as great Horror and Amazement as does the sudden falling of a cruel Enemy into the Tents of a luxurious wanton Army that spares neither Young nor Old that mingles their Blood with the Sacrifices they made to their lustful Appetites and gives them no time either to Arm or to cry for Quarter 'T is as Dreadful as if a Massacre should happen among a company of little Children playing in the Street that while they suspected nothing are cut in a thousand pieces and carried away to the other World in a Sea of their own Blood The sudden untimely Death of careless young Men is as dreadful as a general Inundation that while Men are asleep breaks over all Bounds and carries them their Houses and their Goods away together Have we then no Pity for our selves or do we resolve not to prepare for our Tryal till the Assize come and the Judge is seated on the Bench Is it a small or a tolerable thing to be snatch●d away in one Moment from Life and Hope to have our Souls violently torn from our Bodies and to be sent from under the Dews of Heaven and a chearful pleasant Habitation to be scorched with fla●●ing Wrath and to Live in a Land of Darkness where is all that can afflict or grieve the separated Spirit If we were assured by certain Intelligence from the unseen World that this were the last Sermon we were to hear this the last time that we should have a Call to Remember God and to Repent and that before we Enjoy another of the Days of the Son of Man we should hear our final Doom and be either in Heaven above or Hell beneath Oh with what Cries should we rend the Heavens with what Earnestness should we pour out our Souls in Prayer and as a Criminal that is condemned to dye and is not ready for so great a Change make use of all our Friends to begg of God that he would Reprieve us and spare us a little longer that we may acquaint our selves with him and make our Peace before we go hence and be no more Psal 39.13 With how many Tears should we then bewail our early Follies and not listen to the Charms of sensual worldly Pleasures or the Temptations of the Devil And why should we not do the same now seeing we know not but that may be our Case Mat. 24.42 We know neither the Hour or the Day when our Lord will come nor when Death that is by his Commission going its Circuit and has already past its Sentence upon many others will Arrive at our Place and call us also to the Barr. I might here have shew'd you how many and how great would be the Advantages of an early Remembrance of your Creator how by this you would be a great comfort to your Ministers and Par●●ts and a Blessing both to this Age and to the next As also that hereby you would meet with prosperous Success in your affairs and after many years Labour sweet Repose and the Possession of an inward unspeakable Peace in your way to Glory And besides that you might in a great measure prevent those Calamities that have at a distance long threatned a secure careless People but now are at our very Doors and likely to seize on your Native Country which cries to you that are young to have pity upon her I might here entreat you as you would not see a Famine of the Word nor your Teachers driven to more solitary Corners nor after it has long stood upon the Threshold see the final departure of the Glory that you would now remember your Creator but I shall leave these to your more serious Consideration And now I shall endeavour to move you to this great Duty by setting before you the Example of that young man whose death presented me with the sad occasion of this Sermon though he be dead yet his Death speaks this to us all that we should in health remember our Creator and not defer so great a Work till we are just upon the Borders of the Grave We may think we are yet many paces off but when we have breathed a little longer we shall be there we shall go and dwell with him and with many others that were gathered from such Assemblies as this to the greater Congregation of the dead we shall go from the noise of populous Towns and Cities into that silent forlorn Desert and from Spirits that move in Bodies to those that are unclothed in that vast World which we the Pilgrims on Earth never saw and when we have well performed the Duties of our present state we shall go from moving in this Lower Firmament to move in that which is above all that we see and which is the proper Region and Sphere of the Soul the Seat and Habitation of the bless'd of all those that while they were on Earth remembred their Creator and believed in Christ I shall not draw the Picture of the Young Gentleman of whom I am now to speak in any other Colours then those which were reckoned to make up his true Complexion when he was alive and which were taken from him by such as had opportunity by Converse and Acquaintance to observe the several parts of his Behaviour I. In his more early days he was sent to the University of Dublin in Ireland that there he might obtain the useful knowledge of the Liberal Arts which when duely studyed are a great Ornament and Glory to the mind and render a man more capable of Noble Thoughts and Actions and greatly conduce to the making his Life not only more comfortable to himself but more useful to others but as is the deplorable condition of too many young men in such publick places of Education where the Boar out of the Forest the Devil waits to spoil the tender Vines that are newly planted there he was by the perswasion of ill Associates led away to some things not worthy of Commendation And when God that designed Mercy for his Soul not only checked him in his course by some cross Providences of which he still retained the sense but put it into the heart of his