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A66469	A young man's fancy to the rising generation being a sermon preached upon the death, and at the desire of John Tappin of Boston, who deceased at Fairfield the 10th of October 1672, being in the nineteenth year of his age / by Samuel Wakeman ...	Wakeman, Samuel, 1635-1692.	1673 (1673)	Wing W279; ESTC R18408	44,372	48

obliged as you may see from the grounds before given to remember his Creator and young men will find if they examine them that those re●sons lye as hard upon them as the gray-headed Is God the God of the Jews only saith the Apostle is he not also of the Gentiles Yes of the Gentiles also Is God the Creator Preserver Proprietor of the old man onely is he not also of the young man yes of the young man also Every man is indispensibly presently bound it is the young mans now duty it is Gods now due 2. Because as it is young mens now duty Gods now due that they remember him so God calleth for it now it is Gods due from young men that they remember him now in the dayes of their youth and God gives not day for payment he requireth it out of hand of the Youngest Look through the Scriptures and you will finde I may not stay to instance in particular all the commands of God respecting turning from sin and vanity and the neglect of him and turning to remembring and acknowledging of him to lye upon you in the present tense as what is to be now instantly presently and without delay attended 3. As it is young mens now duty Gods now due that they remember him and God now calleth for his due so now is the fittest time of payment It is Gods now due and God requireth it now and such may best do it and discharge it now in the dayes of youth there is no such season as this now these dayes of youth are affording this reason you have expressed in the text and prosecuted in the following verses Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth while the evil dayes come not nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them c. I do but meerly touch these things here because as time will g●ve leave we shall have occasion to improve them further in the Application of the Doctrine which we now come to And the Uses we shall make of it are onely these two 1. For Conviction and Reprehension 2. For Exhortation Vse I. is for Conviction and Reprehension of mens forgetting God mens forgetfulness of God Is it every mans duty every young mans duty as you have heard now in the dayes of his youth to remember his Creator How is it God is so forgotten as he is Men forget him in their youth and remember him not in their Age of young and old it may be complained as of Israel Hos 8.14 Israel hath forgotten his Maker The charge Ezek. 23.35 Thou hast forgotten me and cast me behinde thy back may be sadly applied to persons of every estate and condition God for the most part is so gotten he is thrown by in the world by all sorts and ranks of men the Vanities of the world take up the mindes of the younger sort and the Cares of it drink up the spirits of the elder When shall we be merry say young men and how shall we be rich say old men but none saith Where is God my Maker as it is complained Job 30.10 If men may but have their Profi s and their Pleasures and the world go well with them God may go where he will for any ●hi●g that they regard him Whoso looks upon the present Generation amongst our selves and here and there and every-where and sees how little God is minded by men that are well and warm in the world will finde reason to revive that old complaint Hos 13.6 According to their pasture so were they filled they were filled and their heart was exalted therefore have they forgotten me In Sickness perhaps at the gates of Death under some sore Affliction it may be said of them as of those Psal 78.34 35. When he slew them then they sought him and they returned and enquired early after God and they remembred that God was their Rock and the high God their Redeemer But take men in their ruff and jollity and pride and plenty and self-sufficiency and most true is that of the Psalmist Psal 10 4. The wicked through the pride of his countenance will n●● seek after God God is not in all his thoughts A day of Sickness of distress of want may bring them to some remembrance of God but let them shake off their fears and sorrows recover their health repossess a full estate and how soon are they in their tune Jer. 2.31 We are lords we will come no more unto thee O sad world O sad world how do men having the world live without God in the world live on Earth as if there were no God in Heaven either in regard of any need they have of him or duty that they owe him O how much is God forgotten in the world how little is he remembred amongst men and that man should not remember but forget his Maker what strange impiety what provoking sin is it One would think that whatsoever men forget or were unmindful about it should be rather of any thing rather of everything then his Creator the God that made him the God that is as you have heard the Author and End of his Being that is his Upholder Preserver and gracious visitant every moment that is his Proprietor Owner Possessor Lord Governour that challengeth him in the most Absolute and unquestionable Right that is throughly acquainted with him and as throughly able to reach and punish him for all his neglects of duty towards himself yet alas what doth many a man less remember more forget then his Maker At that day saith the Prophet in the place before-mentioned Isa 17.7 shall a man look to his Maker and his eyes shall have respect to the holy One of Israel but at this day the contrary in sad experience is to be seen and said of most men They look not to their Maker and their eyes have no respect to the holy One of Israel Oh how little God-ward their Maker-ward do most men look how little respect have they for him they have enough and more then enough for the Creature but they have little or none for the Creator Al●s how do men gad up and down the world setting their eyes upon things that are not scrabling here as if the dust of the earth would not suffice for every man a handfull but thought-less of God and forgetting their resting-place Oh! to look with an awakened understanding upon rational Creatures men of Gods own making and made for and made able and meet for this end and purpose to remember know acknowledge own him their Creator and then consider how little they do it how mindless regardless forgetful of God they are How astonishing is it and yet alas how common O it is a strange sinful doleful world wherein it is so rare to finde a man seriously mindful of his Maker Alas Sirs men mindless of God are mindless too what it is to be mindless of him but to an enlightened to an awakened

it is then so as by fire as the Apostle speaks 1 Cor. 3.15 or as it is Jude ver 22.23 And of some have compassion making a difference and others save with fear pulling them out of the fire so God acts such a difference he makes in seasoning some with his grace in their young and tender years and more easily work●ng them to himself whilest others that run on are saved with fear and pulled as brands out of the fire many fears heart-misgiving despairing thoughts such are ordinarily attended with God commonly makes those that long put off a Magar-missabib if ever he shew them mercy such are more seldome humbled converted saved and when they are it is not without much ado 3 The sins of youth which such have deeply run into and long run on in though God do at last recover them by a sound and soaking Repentance and save them through much fear and terrour remain many times a Corrosive gnawing upon their Spirits all their dayes the sting of such and such a sweet sin that they have been deeply in sticks with them to a dying day it is made the hypocrites portion to have his bones full of the sins of his youth Job 20.11 but it is many times the lot of such whom God hath brought home to himself by a sound Repentan●● to be made to possess the iniquities of their youth as is evident from Jobs complaint Job 13.26 and Davids prayer Psal 25 7. Upon this account by remembring and turning to God now thou mayest haply prevent such sins which should God give thee hereafter Repentance may stick with thee to a dying day and bring down as Jacob speaks thy gray hairs with sorrow to the grave See then this advantage in a present early turning unto God it will prevent many sorrows a great deal of sad work O therefore take the Wise-mans counsel in the last Verse of the foregoing Chapter Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart and put away evil from thy flesh do not put it upon thy self but take the course the onely wise way to remedy and prevent it which he prescribes in the Text Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth 2. As hereby much sin and sorrow will be prevented so hereby thou shalt abundantly provide for thy own good comfort benefit in after-time if God take thee sooner hence it will be well thou art ready if not thou wilt abundantly reap in thy Age the benefit and advantage the good and comfort of thy early remembring and turning to God Youth or Spring as one saith is the Seed-time of grace and go●liness if in the Spring no Seed be sown or none but Cockle or Darnel or such Weeds what hope of Harvest or what a Harvest may be expected Forgetfulness of God in time of youth causeth old Age to perish to be good for nothing so some carry the sense of that Job 30.2 In whom old age was perished i.e. their old Age was good for nothing but an early Seeds-time is a good presage of and preparatory to a plentiful Harvest of grace joy and comfort in after-times Consider more particularly a few things here but to touch them 1. To remember and turn to God to be good take a right course betimes is the way to be se●●edly good to be setled and established in the way of God and godliness in Age the sooner thou art seasoned with right principles p●ous principles in youth the more deeply and indelibly will they be rivert●d into thee in Age Prov. 22.6 Train up a childe in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it The Proverb is A young ●●int● and an old Devil but the Spirit of God knows better and tells us A Saint in youth and an established Saint in Age that which is sucked●in in youth and a person is then seasoned with becomes well rooted and setled in him in Age. As it is a dreadfull thing to grow Aged in sin because such are hardly removed so is it a happy thing to grow Aged in Grace and Godlinesse because such are most firmly estab●●shed but the onely way to this is to begin betimes 2. To remember turn to God betimes to begin to be indeed good early is the ready way to be good indeed to be eminently good a forward Spring and Seeds-time is here the forerunner of a plentifull Harvest as he that begins betimes and long continues to drive a gainfull trade is long in taking in and treasuring up must needs be well stored and furnished so it is with the early Christian in his age he is rich in grace in spiritual experiences c. Those ordinarily are most fat and flourishing and bring forth most fruit in their age that begin betimes Oh think how rich in knowledge practicall saving knowledge how strong in faith how intimately acquainted with God how humble holy and heavenly minded how abounding in every grace and rich in all manner of good works mightest thou be wouldst thou be perswaded now in the dayes of thy youth to remember thy Creator O be indeed good godly now this is the way to be good indeed eminently good and godly 3. The last advantage that I shall name as to this that thou shalt have by an early turning unto God is this It will greaten thy reward in heaven none shall serve God for nought begin quickly and hold on carefully and cheerfully thou shalt lose nothing by it 1 Cor. 15.58 indeed the reward is not of work it is of grace but yet it is according to work 2 Cor. 9.6 begin ever so soon and follow it ever so diligently and continue ever so long thou shalt then receive a full reward for every moments service 3. And lastly Hereby thy own good and comfort shall be as most abundantly so most certainly provided for Do it now and then thou wilt be sure to do it but neglect it new and thou art not certain of a future time to attend it Were there nothing in all that hath been already said yet one would think there were enough in this one Consideration were it seriously thought upon to put an issue to all thought of delaying and putting off and put thee upon a now present remembring God without more ado or whiling it off any longer Childhood and Youth are vanity it is the Argument in the last words of the former Chapter by which the Exhortation in the Text to a timely remembr●ng God is as it were ushered in and were it laid to heart sure it would make thee lay by all delayes Thy flourishing Youth man O think of it is fickle flitting frail subject to Death as well as old Age Jam. 4.14 For what is your life it is even a vapour Man's life in general is so the young man's life is even a vapour as well as the old man's as we see in continual experience Death's Motto is Nulli Caedo I give place to I spare none We are like