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A66355 The vanity of childhood & youth wherein the depraved nature of young people is represented and means for their reformation proposed : being some sermons preached in Hand-Alley at the request of several young men, to which is added a catechism for youth / by Daniel Williams. Williams, Daniel, 1643?-1716. 1691 (1691) Wing W2657; ESTC R31018 71,103 147

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all the World Holy Angels are not always strangers to thy Carriage and Discourses and mayst not thou blush at their Remarks Devils do oft impress thy Fancy and put those things into thee which thou thinkest and talkest of these Enemies of thine do gladly behold thee unmanning thy self wounding thy Soul and corrupting others with thy foolish Speeches and Actions Thy silly Companions observe thee and receive the Contagion to which their own Inclinations make them apt And is it nothing with thee that thou conversest with People ready to be diverted from seriousness and forward to be vain by thy Example Alas thou becomest accessory to all the evil they shall propagate and wilt be condemned in their thoughts if God give them Repentance or cursed by them in Hell if they dye impenitent Thy ungrave Deportment sometimes is seen by such as are wise and good those despise thee and pity thy Madness when thou pleasest thy self as being airy and witty 4. Be not an unconcerned Stranger to the State of the World where enough daily occurrs to make thee serious Canst thou be light and altogether vain in a World so full of Sin and Misery how many dismal Objects dost thou see and hear of what Cruelty in one Man to another how oft is the Church oppressed what Judgments and Calamities are thy Neighbours under what dangers is the Land of thy Nativity exposed to Most of the Earth lies in Ignorance Idolatry and subject to the Devil's Empire 1 Ioh. 5. 19. how many Souls are bemoaning their own sins and ready to despond under Doubts and Fears where is there a Family but groaneth under some disaster and canst thou play the Buffoon as if Childish toys diverted thee from all sense of these things 5. Awe thy Soul with the importance of sacred things so as not to dare to entertain a light thought concerning them much less to speak jestingly of them Every Scripture truth is a beam of Divine Light it 's revealed by the eternal Spirit to Mankind for to direct their Faith and Practice 2 Tim. 3. 16. and dare a poor Worm that shall be judged thereby affront Heaven by ridiculing its Discoveries Young Man they cannot be matter of Jest which the holy and wise God is intent on and the Hearts of all devout Persons are deeply exercised with Are such things to be sported with by Man which the very Devils tremble at Canst thou chuse but be seriously affected with the Matters of Religion if thou believe these are the things the Incarnation Sufferings Death and Testimony of the Son of God referr to These are the things which great Miracles have attested These are the things which the various Operations of the Holy Ghost on Souls design and the Ministry of Angels subserve These are the things which the Devil is so industrious to oppose These are the things a Gospel-Ministry is established for and about which all pious Ministers are so intent and importunate These are the things which most affect and govern all such who are freed from the Dominion of their Lusts and can dye with hopes These are the things which if totally disregarded expose Mankind to all bruitish Villanies in this World and endless Tortures in another 6. Abstain the Society of light Persons and observe the danger of excessive Mirth There 's that levity in thy temper which inferrs danger by vain Persons and thou art inconsiderate if the latter doth not force thee to say of Laughter it is mad and of Mirth what doth it Eccl. 2. 2. Yea sorrow is better than laughter for by the sorrow of the Countenance the Heart is made better Eccl. 7. 3. 7. Acquaint thy self with those purer and higher Joys which a serious Temper lead to There be delights of a higher Nature than what thou pursuest they would soon render these unsuituble to thy taste as well as contemptible to thy judgment No holy young Man would exchange the feast of his heavenly Father for thy Swinish husks Luke 15. 16 23. there 's no present emptiness nor following bitterness in Spiritual Delights The sence of Gods Love Peace of Conscience the lively hopes of Glory the satisfaction of well-doing the serenity of a composed Soul the ease of a rectified Nature as far as the Faculties are delivered from Sin and healed by Grace do constitute a delight so real and refined as if thou once taste will make thee reflect on thy past Joys with shame and disdain See Psal. 4. 6. Cant. 2. 3 4. 7. Young People are prone to lye This Sin appeareth in Childhood and then such a habit is contracted as they hardly are delivered from It 's now true of many They go astray as soon as they be born speaking lies Ps. 58. 3. You lye to your Parents to excuse your Faults You lye to God in breaking your Baptismal Vow You lye to your Equals for pleasure or gain You speak falsly to revenge your selves on such as you are angry with Oh how oft do you speak otherwise than you think and contrary to what you know deceiving them to whom you speak Consider thou Child lay to Heart O young Man that Lying is a horrid Sin Herein thou imitatest the Devil who is the Father of a Lye and the first Liar Iohn 8. 44. Thou art contrary to God who is a God of Truth to him lying Lips are an abomination Prov. 12. 22. He is so incensed by this Sin that he allots every Liar his Portion among the worst of Sinners Rev. 22. 15. Oh Child wouldst thou get to Heaven then thou must not lye Art thou afraid of burning in Hell for ever then fear a Lye Wouldst thou be a Child of God He tells thee his Children are such as will not lye Isa. 63. 8. It 's the Charge of God to thee Put away lying and speak the truth Eph. 4. 25. Darest thou say I will not regard what the Lord saith to me Alas he will punish thee for a lie worse than thy Father or Master can punish thee for any Fault Young Men allow not your selves in this Iniquity let no Master force you to lye in your Trade much less do you use it in your Discourse it 's a mean thing it 's destructive to Humane Society and the bane of Conversation What is a greater Reproach than to be a Liar What is esteemed a worse Affront than to say thou lyest Great are the mischiefs to Mens Repute Estates Peace by a false Tongue and in vain be all pretences to Religion if the Tongue be not bridled as to this fault Iam. 1. 26. How hateful is it to debase so noble a thing as Speech in deluding thy Brother in thy Communication with him Quest. How shall a Young Man avoid Lying Answ. 1. Love Truth and despise what would allure thee to quit it in thy Speech It 's the Character of him that shall inhabit God's Temple He speaketh the Truth in his heart Psal. 15. 2. To speak the Truth argues a