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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	experience_n	young_a	youth_n	22	3	7.8121	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70256	The priveledge of the saints on earth beyond those in heaven in respect of gifts and graces exercised, duties and services performed, sufferings and tryals undergone by them which the glorified are not capable of : being the sum of a discourse upon a part of Hezekiah's Song of thanksgiving ... : to which is added A short discourse of the nature and extent of the Gospel-day : reaching from the destruction of the old to the erection of the new Jerusalem out of Zech. 14, 6, 7 / by William Hooke.	Hooke, William, 1600 or 1601-1678.	1673 (1673)	Wing H2628; ESTC R28112	66,910	165

because he was a great Commander and Prince in his Country to which also he had been a Father having wrought great deliverances for the same However such a Father was the good King in my Text and he owns himself as such an one in the very entrance of his Reign when he was but 25 years old For saith he to the Priests and Levites exhorting them to their duty My sons be not now negligent for the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him to serve him and that you should minister unto him and burn Incense They were themselves Fathers for Hezekiah calls them God's Ministers and so they were Fathers to Hezekiah but as he was their King he was their Father and they his sons They his Spiritual Fathers he their Political and so he was not only Pater patriae but also Pater patrum not only the Father of his Countrey but the Father of his Fathers i. e. the Political Father of those who were his Fathers Ecclesiastically But here is no opportunity of speaking to such Fathers as these whose duty it is also to make known the Truth unto their Children as Hezekiah did as appears at large in his Reformation 2 Chron. 29th 30th and 31th Chapters There are Fathers in age gravity seniority viz. such as are well stricken in years Such are they 1 Tim. 5. 1. Rebuke not an Elder but entreat him as a Father the younger Men as brethren the elder Women as Mothers the younger as sisters The Elder here is not a Church-Officer as some perhaps may think For though it is Presbyteros in the Original yet the same word is applyed to Elder Women also in ver 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Elder Women or as if I should say The Presbyteresse● So that the Apostle here speaketh only of the several degrees of Age in each Text Elder and Younger calling the Elder Men Fathers and the Elder Women Mothers and the younger Men and Women Brethren and Sisters And that this is the true meaning of the Apostle appears also Titus 2. 2 3. where the Elder here is called Aged there Now there is a duty also incumbent upon these as touching the transmission of the Truth to the generation to come Make it known therefore by your Examples Counsels Encouragements upon all occasions for you have heard much and seen much and known much and treasured up experiences and therefore certainly you should have much to say to such as are of the younger sort and your years gravity wisdom experiences will the better recommend the Truth unto them for there is an honour due to you also by vertue of the fifth Commandment Let me commend to you that Text of Scripture Oh God thou hast taught me from my youth and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works Now also when I am old and gray-headed Oh God forsake me not until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation and thy power to every one that is to come The Psalmist was now an old Man one of much experience being taught of God from his youth and as God taught him so he taught others For saith he Hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works Hitherto that is to old Age for now he was aged and gray-headed And had he not done well and was it not time now to dye Yes he had done very well but yet he is willing to live a little longer to do more and therefore saith he Forsake me not until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation and thy power to every one that is to come As if he should say I am willing yet to live a little longer to do more generation-work there is a care and zeal for posterity upon my heart there are young people ready to come after me and peradventure they will listen to the Counsel of an old experienced servant of God and upon this account I am willing to spend a few days more upon Earth to serve God and Posterity without which it were not worth while to live Think upon this Text of Scripture you that are old and gray-headed and improve the little remainder of your lives to serve the succeeding generation For you do not love Religion if you do not love that it should live when you are dead neither are they worthy of experiences who dig and hide them in the Earth When God had shewed his singular care and power in the preservation of his Church against her Enemies that attempted the ruine thereof saith he Walk about Zion go round about her tell the Towers thereof mark ye well her Bulwarks consider her Palaces that ye may tell it to the generations following So when God ariseth to build up Zion and appears in glory upon the prayers of his poor people This must be written for the generations to come that the people which shall be created may praise the Lord. Lastly There are such who though they are not called Fathers yet are called Elders viz. the Members of the Gospel-Churches And they are so called not in respect of age but of state in these Gospel-times wherein the Church is past her non-age and is now in an Elderly state requiring more Knowledge Wisdom Strength Seriousness Gravity and Solidity in the things of God How should such as these walk before others so as to answer the Character of Elders Let such take heed then of carrying it below their state It is not for Elders to behave themselves like Children I have thought many times of that description of the Gospel-Churches in the Revelations and how little it is answered this day by many that relate to such Societies Take heed then of scandals answer your State live up to your Priviledges shine in Holiness that you may adorn the Doctrine of God and our Saviour and commit and commend your State Examples and holy Lives unto the Generation to come that they may attain to the knowledge of the Truth by your walking in it and say These Truths and Ways of holy Walking were made known to me by the Gracious Grave and serious Lives of such as did relate unto the Churches of Christ The Exhortation hitherto hath been to do all the good we are able during our abode here below seeing death will put end to all our opportunities And I have propounded to you several Particulars wherein to be exercised this way Now before I proceed to any further Use of Exhortation Let me mind you of that which may conduce to the attendance of this Duty and that is an heart enlarged unto publick service For that which greatly hinders the prosecution of this work is the narrowness and straightness of the Spirits of Men whose concernments are commonly bounded within themselves Therefore you must endeavour to abound in love First To the glory of God For this was at work in Hezekiah's heart when he said The living the living he shall praise thee This was uppermost this was the first