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A55343	A directory for youth Through all the difficulties attending that state of life. Or a discouse of youthful lusts. In which the nature and dinds of them are described, and remedies against them laid down. First preached to young people, and now published at their request. By Samuel Pomfret, minister of the gospel.	Pomfret, Samuel, d. 1722.	1693 (1693)	Wing P2798; ESTC R224107	117,456	254

it to see young ones restrained and kept b●ck by any by all of them You have an instance in Ely's Sons 1 Sam. 2. and for this cause in the 12 verse they are called children of Belial because no Yoke would hold them Also you read of two of Jacobs Sons Simeon and Levi of whose miscarriages of this kind the good old man thus expresseth himself in the 49 Gen. 5. 6 7. Simeon and Levi are Brethren instruments of Cruelty are in their Habitations O my Soul come not thou into their Secret unto their Assembly mine Honour be not thou united for in their anger they Slew a man and in their self will they digged down a Wall Cursed be their Anger for it was fierce and their Wrath for it was Cruel It is to be observed that the greater number of those Malefactors that end their miserable lives at Tiburn are the younger sort of people their boisterous lusts consume them that they scares live out half their days C. Careless incogitancy and want of serious consideration and laying to heart the most awful important matters of their Souls There are three things saith a great Writer that are chief ruiners and destroyers of Souls Namely 1. want of consideration and self reflexion 2. Infidelity 3. Earthly mindedness but especially want of consideration The first of these which Youth are exceeding guilty of How seldom do young people retire and soberly inquire what their State and Condition God wards is whether it be a state of Nature or Grace whether God be reconciled and sin pardoned c. Alas young people are generally led by sense extending their thoughts no further than just what is before them though they live and move and have their Being in God are always under his all-seeing Eye yet he is not all their thoughts tho he will bring them to Judgment for all they do yet they think not of it This evidently appears in the advice the Holy Ghost giveth young ones in the 11. of Eccles 9. it s true all men naturally are inconsiderate about these things but young ones are averse to the thoughts of God their Soul Death and Judgment because the remembrance of these things would damp their youthful sensual Delights and Pleasures and administer trouble to their minds against which that age of life hath an irreconcileable enmity and hence it is that the vanities and fooleries of this world out way Christ Heaven and eternal Life O did young ones but seriously consider and bend their thoughts close to those rouzing Doctrines and truth as they are represented in the word of God Their undone state by Nature and the peril of Hell and Damnation they are in each moment whilst they delay Conversion and flying for refuge to a crucified Jesus surely it would render the temptations of fleshly pleasures jejune and vain and prove an excellent means to awaken them to Repentance ere the day of Gods Patience be ended which brings me to the fourth next sin young people are prone to 4. Delaying of Religion saying They are yet young and its time enough though young People are often told how much more dubious and difficult their Repentance and turning to God will be hereafter then now supposing their Lives should be continued to them Yet without the breach of Charity one may say scarce one of many Hundreds but delay and neglect a present complyance with those repeated Calls of God to Conversion when in the mean time their Youthful Lusts their Games and Sports call them and find a quick and ready Attendance and Closure David's great Care was to set about the Work of Religion while he was under the first and early calls thereunto 119 Psal 60 I made haste and delayed not to keep thy Commandments But how rare is it to see young Persons whom the Devil lays Siege to endeavouring to perswade them that it is time enough when they are older to sleep their thoughts in such a melancholly Subject as Religion is to follow his example 5. Eager pursuits after Pleasures Loving them more than God Pleasure is that which strangely carries it with the younger sort of People Modo P●tiar saith the youngster let me have Pleasure now whatever ●●me on'● as Esau parts with his Birth●●ght for a mess of red Potage so young ones are ready to part with Heaven for the pleasures of Sin that are but for a season they are joyned to pleasure as Ephraim was to Idols and O how difficult a taske is it to force a divorce between them Shall I be cloistred up and manacled in the days of my Youth by the severities of Repentance and Selfdenial this is to bid me be no more Naomi but Marah Thus the young man pleads like the Figtree and Olivetree you read of in the 9. of Judges and the 9. Should I leave my fatness and my sweetness c. so should I leave my youthful Pleasures to match with Sighs Groans Tears and a strict course of mortification No no I le rather rejoyce in the days of my Youth ere the days come wherein I can have no Pleasure Thus Youth are prone like the Bee that hovers about the Pot of Honey untill at length it is drowned in it to hanker after yea madly to ru● full breast upon Pleasure u●till like a da●● it strikes into their very Liver Their mind are perpetually drunk with the love of Pleasure till they fall down Dead F. Flexibility to Temptation as dry Tinde● to the least spark hence you read in the Pr●verbs frequently of the young Mans bei●● easily enticed and drawn away Chap. 7. from the 7 Verse to the 23. And I beheld among ●● simple Ones I discerned among the Youths young Man void of Vnderstanding and he w●● the way to the Harlots House c. Verse 21. With her fair Speech she caused him to yield and he goeth after her straightway as an Ox goeth to the Slaughter c. hence in the 1st Chap. 10. you Read My Son if Sinners entice thee consent thou not c. intimating that impetous or vigorous Inclination Byass that is in Youth to consent to Temptations young ones are easily drawn by the smallest Temptations they are ready to meet it half way yea to out go it Isa 5. 18. We read of some that will Transgress for a piece of Bread 28. Prov. 21. Ahab sold himself to work Wickedness Judas offered himself to sell Christ and Ephraim willingly walked after the Commandment of False Worship 5. Hosea 11. Thus young People are presently perswaded the least Motion is bait and hire enough like soft Wax they readily receive the stamp of a Temptation G. Going down the Stream and following ● Multitude to do Evil excusing all with this Namely That there are Thousands and Millions that steer the Course and tread the Paths that I do ducimur exemptis If Ministers give warning from God to avoid and flee such and such youthful Sins and cry out as the Angel to

longer upon this because it will be of use through all the rest which I hope I may dispatch with a quicker hand Means or Remedies against that Epidemical Sin of youthful delaying Repentance and Conversion c. YOung People are as you have heard exceedingly prone to put off God and their Souls with saying in themselves I a● young enough and have time enough to repent hereafter c. these are the usual pleas that young people make for delaying their Conversion and this is indeed the usual an● beaten Road to Hell and the commo● Snare in which Satan entangles multitudes of unwary Youth perswading the● that it 's too soon to repent that it 's too ea●ly to fully and sadden the briskness an● beauty of their Youth with the melancholy apprehensions of Religion but ala● while silly Youth listens to these charm● the fatal hour of death often steals on an● cuts them down e're they are aware o● awake Wherefore for the Cure and Remedy hereof I shall offer these following Co●siderations First Consider the danger of Delays Young People make little or nothing o● putting off the important matters of th●● Souls a day a week a month a year not considering what an infinite prejudice it may be to their everlasting Happiness to neglect the looking after these matters though it were no more than for one hour or one day and that will appear 1. In regard of the utter uncertainty of their time and that both of their time of Life and time of Grace Alas you know not what a day an hour may bring forth the very next hour may find thee alive and leave thee dead This is that which Youth are not easily perswaded of they foolishly dream of years and then they entertain so good an opinion of the truth of their Dream that they grow as peremptory in it as if they had an Inheritance settled upon them for perpetuity But O vain Youth where ever dwelt the man wh●t was his Name that could ever assure thee of another day nay that thou shalt see the end of this day Is not thy Flesh grass as well as others view the weekly Bills of Mortality and see there whether young ones are priviledg'd above others from Sickness and Death Let it therefore be seriously thought upon by young people that their time of Life is utterly uncertain that they are but one breaths distance from Death and Eternity and though it is possible that they may live till to morrow or next Year yet it 's equally possible that they may dye before others have been surprized who have had the same reason to hope for a longer time a● themselves and therefore they cannot delay and put off their Conversion and turning to God without notorious or manifest danger O be not deceived you whose consultations have wont to be with Flesh and Blood and whose conclusions use to be that you are young and healthy and have many Year● to come and therefore it 's time enough hereafter to repent Piety is too grave for your green head the caput mortuum of your old Age will serve well enough to serve God with I say be not deceived a sudden death may snatch you hence and send you● guilty Soul to Hell before your Body be carried to the dust for the great God is the sole and soveraign Lord of your life and time and pray see how he rebukes the presumption of such Sparks who boast of their years to come 12. Luke 19 20. I will say t● my Soul Soul thou hast much Goods laid up for many Years take thine ease eat drink and be merry This Prodigal was neither sick nor possessed with any fears of Sickne●● and Death yet see what follows v. 20. But God said unto him Thou fool this Night thy Soul shall be required of thee then whose shall these things be So in the 28. Isa 18. you read of some Desperadoes that had made ● Covenant with Death and were at an agreement with Hell But what saith the Lord why he telleth them that the one should be disannulled the other should not stand nay he calleth them a refuge of Lyes and that the overflowing Scourge and Storm of his wrath should rend down all their lying refuges And in the 58. Psal 9. you read that such as are taken away living and in his wrath before the Pots can feel the Thorns i. e. suddenly and in so short a breath that elsewhere they are said to go down into the Pit in a moment and that these rebukes may particularly intend young ones you may see in the 36. of Job 14. They dye in Youth c. Hence the Holy Ghost often makes use of that Metaphor Grass in the 40. Isa 6. and 90. Psal 6. In the Morning it flourisheth and groweth up in the Evening it is cut down and withereth The grass is growing in the field and as our Saviour noteth to morrow cast into the Oven Matth. 6. 30. Such is the condition of Youth you may be in good health in a flourishing condition in mirth and jollity one day and be burning in Hell the next Therefore flee this Sin of delaying your Repentance c. it was the counsel of Solomon who was inspited 27. Prov. 1. Boast not thy self of to morrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth q. d. This day God in mercy affords thee to repent in c. but trust not upon a to morrow that is utterly uncertain whether it come or no or if it do whether thy Conversion or thy Condemnation in it shall be brought forth or no If it was thy own and thou couldst certainly kno● it would be in thy possession c. the● might be some little pretence for thy presen● delaying but when it is another's and ●● is utterly hid and concealed from thee whether thou shalt live to it or no how can yo● without certain danger delay till anothe● day He that will adventure to build o● Ground that is none of his own must loo● to have all undone or overturn'd at th● pleasure or displeasure of another T●us you delay and profusely waste the prese● season and space of Repentance which merciful God indulgeth you with a● boldly entrench upon the future which Go● has reserv'd in his own power how haza●dous an adventure do you run for it 's a ru●● in the civil Law no Person can promi●● that which is anothers Now the owne and proprietor of your time is God and ●● hath concealed the day the hour the m●ment of Death's arrest from us that so yo● should never delay but work out your Salvation to day while it 's called to day th● command of God takes hold of you at th● present the counsel of God concerning th● future is kept hid from you alas for a t● morrow whose is it Seneca the Heathe● could see this and say solum tempus praese● nostrum No time is ours but the present to count upon a to