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A03419	A Christian caueat for al estates. Or A sermon, preached by that religious seruant of God, Master George Hockin, Bachelor of Diuinitie, Fellow of Excester Colledge, and preacher to the towne of Totnes in Deuon	Hockin, George, b. 1569 or 70.; I. C., fl. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 13542; ESTC S116598	26,164	49

a countenance neuer waite on him Many that eate his meate that neuer acknowledge the Giuer Many protected by him see it not Many afflicted yet seeke him not diligently Hos 5.15 Hee strikes them but they sorrow not hee consumes them but they refuse his correction Iere. 5.3 He giues to such as are vnthankfull clotheth such as are proud helpeth such as are vnworthy and prouideth for such as are wicked He that giueth all good things hath little or nought giuen him againe Where hee should bee loued hee is hated and of whom hee should bee honoured he is dishonoured Gods loue towards vs hath beene from all eternitie Some as wine doth receiue the greater praise by the age of it old wine is the best and ancient loue is the most approued How much doe wee esteeme of such a friend as hath borne vs good wil for some twentie or fortie yeeres together The more reckoning wee should make of Gods loue which hath beene eternall Before Christ wee were enemies to God there was nothing to be seene in vs but sinne and miserie nor any thing to draw Gods affection toward vs but his owne free and good pleasure now that loue wee haue deserued wee the lesse esteeme but such loue as is freely conferred on vs we doe make more store of Vse 2 The second Vse not onely the Creation bindeth Man to remember God but all other his benefits wherewith Man is compassed about Many are the works of mercy which God hath bestowed on Man besides the Creation all of them binding Man to remember God First Mans Redemption by Christ Of all the works of mercy this chiefly ought to be remembred for it is the chiefest worke the freedome of Sinners both from the guilt and power of sinne By whom wee haue Redemption through his Bloud euen the forgiuenesse of sinnes Ephes 1.7 To haue sinne forgiuen is to bee redeemed or set free from all euill That which Paul calleth in the former words Redemption is afterward called Remission of sinne What is forgiuenesse of sinne but an act of Grace acquitting vs from all the guilt and the whole punishment of all our sinne and as men speake of Redemption so they may speake of Remission Secondly the worke of Preseruation is another great benefit of God which is a keeping men free and safe from dangers and from hurt by enemies Preserue me O Lord for I trust in thee Psal 16.1 What shall I doe vnto thee O thou Keeper of men Iob 7.20 Hee preserueth both Man and Beast Psal 36.6 Thou preseruedst them all Nehe. 9.6 Thirdly the worke of Sustentation bindeth Man to remember God for God vp-holdeth his Children that they take not a fall by sinne and calamitie or that they take no hurt by such fals The Lord sustayned me Psal 3.5 Hee maketh mee to rest in greene pastures and leadeth me by the still waters Hee restoreth my soule and leadeth mee in the pathes of Righteousnes for his Names sake Ps 23.2 3. Many other benefits are men compassed withall to binde them to remember God In the dayes of thy youth It is good for children to learne to know God euen in youth Text. whiles they are young for so much Solomon teacheth here saying In the dayes of thy youth Doct. That because youth is most prone to forget God it is needfull they should be exhorted to remember God Youth is most prone to forget God for they are in the flower of their age in the roofe of pride and in the heate of lust hauing by nature corrupt hearts and carnall desires liuing in pleasures passing their time in mirth all which makes them forget God Though young men doe not alwaies breake out into notorious wickednesse yet they are subiect to youthfull wantonnesse and vnstaiednesse of affection which if it breake not out yet it makes them forgetfull of God and lesse carefull of good things This loosenesse is the way to lewdnesse this weaknesse is the high way to wickednes this Gods children being regenerate see which before they saw not Hence is it that Dauid prayeth Lord remember not the sinnes of my youth Psal 25.7 Of all mans life Youth cōmonly is most vaine The imaginations of mans heart is euill from his youth Ier. 8.21 We are all transgressors from the wombe Esa 48.8 In sinne hath my Mother conceiued me Psal 51.5 Euen from the Belly haue they erred Ps 58.3 For the sinnes of youth God often punisheth men in their age so making them to inherit the iniquities of their youth Iob 13.26 The Prophet saith We and our Father haue sinned from our youth Ier. 3.25 Shal we thinke they in their youth committed grosse sins as Adulterie Drunkennesse Murther and such like which were so holy men as Iob and Ieremie surely no but they confessed the sinnes of their youth their wantonnesse and forgetfulnesse of God their too much loue of pleasure their youthfulnesse Solomon saith Foolishnesse is bound in the heart of a child Pro. 22.15 therefore child-hood and youth are vanitie not in themselues but because they are often spent in vanitie Suruey those which are more then ordinarie young men which haue the best wits and are thought to bee of the best disposition and their youth will hardly be found without vanitie nay not onely those young men that are best in ciuill gifts but in spirituall graces as Timothy find child-hood and youth to be vanitie Eccl. 11.10 Timothy did tame his body and bring it into subiection so that Paul was faine to bid him to drinke wine 1. Tim. 5.23 yet he had this memento giuen him flie the lusts of youth 2. Tim. 2.22 Young men see not vanitie when they are yong but they may perceiue it when they are old for now their consciences are like water in a bason if the water be troubled the face cannot be seene but when it is setled it may so all is troubled in youth but when maturitie of yeeres come then it will stand still and they may see their faces Dauid being old praied against sinnes of youth Because it is so hard for a young man to remember God and to be holy Dauid breaketh off his meditation abruptly into this wherewithall shall a young man cleanse his waies Psal 119.9 And Dauid vsing the word cleansing compareth the young man to a glasse which though it be very cleane yet will gather filth in the Sunne beames As a ricke of Hay put vp wet set it selfe on fire so haue the hearts of young men enough in them to inflame them Young men should remember their Creator in Reas 1 their youth lest accustoming to forget God in youth they doe not remember him in old age Customes is another nature and can hardly be altered Can the Black-More change his skinne or the Leopard his spots then may yee also doe good that are accustomed to doe euill Ier. 13.23 This young men get by continuing in sinne they cannot leaue it many cannot leaue swearing lying stealing when they

For hee that forgetteth the Word of God will soone forget God and he that remembreth the Word will remember God the author of the Word Secondly wee haue the Sacraments which are tokens of Gods loue which should cause vs to remember God Thirdly the creatures should put vs in minde of God euery one representing either the power goodnesse or mercy of God euery tree and euery leafe euery flower and euery grasse euery stone nay euery sand doth set forth his goodnesse The greater is our sinne if we forget him hauing so many meanes to remember him Should a Sonne forget is Father who hath left him many tokens to remember him by If a Husband departing from home should leaue many Memorials with his Wife on euery Doore Wall and Poste a remembrance that shee can goe no where but shee must needes remember him yea if shee haue his Signet on her finger that so as often as shee lookes on her finger she may remember him how great were her fault to forget him or how were it possible not to remember him The Almighty God hath thus dealt with vs in the world which is his House hee hath left euery where remembrances If a Woman remember her Husband seeing his Ring she should remember God seeing her finger which his Finger made and her hands the worke of his Hands When I beheld the Heauens euen the workes of thy Fingers the Moone and the Starres which thou hast ordained Psal 8.3 Great benefits should cause vs remember God Reas 4 What maketh vs so to sinne but the forgetting of God therefore it is often said of the Israelites they forgate God and serued Baalim as if he should say they neuer would haue committed Idolatry if they had not forgotten God They haue peruerted their way and forgotten the Lord their God Ier. 3.21 The latter is the cause of the former and so forgetters of God are put for wicked men Now as forgetfulnesse of God causeth sinne witnesse Adulterers Drunkards and such like which will confesse they forgate God so the remembrance of God is the cause of obedience for hee that remembreth God will feare to offend him and endeauour to please him The vse of this point is for our instruction that Vse 1 wee should bee the more carefull to remember the Lord. First God commandeth it and Gods Commandements must be obeyed If he consent and obey he shall eate the good things of the Land Esay 1.19 Whatsoeuer we aske we receiue of him because we keep his Commandements and doe those things which are pleasing in his sight 1. Iohn 3.22 If wee reade the Scriptures heare the Word blessed shall wee bee if we keepe it Blessed is hee that readeth and they that heare the words of the Prophecie and keepe those things which are written therein Reuel 1.3 Our Goods Cattell Corne and all things belonging to vs shall be blessed of God if we obey his voyce and doe as hee would haue vs yea our children shall bee blessed after vs Blessed is the vpright man and blessed shall his seede be after him Pro. 20.7 Yea as Dauid speaketh Blessed is the man that meditates in the Law of God day and night For he shall be like a Tree planted by the Riuers of Waters Psal 1 2 3. No good thing will the Lord withhold from them that liue vprightly Psal 84.11 On the contrary euen those things which in their owne nature are the good blessings of God shall be accursed of God And the Lord will in his wrath and in his hot anger curse our blessings This Commandement is for you If yee will heare and if yee will not lay it to heart to giue glory to my Name saith the Lord of Hostes. I will euen send a curse vpon you and I will curse your blessings yea I haue cursed them already because yee doe not consider it in heart Malach. 2.2 Secondly the promises which God hath made to such as remember him should be a meanes to stirre vs vp to remember him he hath promised to bee with his to the end of the world Matth. 28.20 Neuer to faile them nor forsake them Heb. 13.5 Hee promised to giue his Sonne the first begotten and the onely begotten Iohn 3.16 Luke 2.7 And in him what rare matter can we wish for which is not in him to be found Would wee haue Wisedome hee is the essentiall Wisedome of the Father the obiect of all true Wisedome which tendeth to saluation in him is our Wisedome not onely while wee walke by faith at home in this body but also when wee shall walke by sight with the Lord seeing him as he is All the treasure of Wisedome and Vnderstanding are hid in him Col. 2.3 Would we haue Righteousnesse he is essentially righteous as God in our name habitually and actually Righteous He is Iehouah our Righteousnesse Ier. 23.6 The Sunne of Righteousnesse that person which hath brought with him euerlasting Righteousnesse Would wee haue Redemption with him is great redemption Psal 130.7 Through him haue we redemption that is Forgiuenesse of our sinnes Col. 1.14 By him wee doe waite for the Redemption of our bodies Rom. 8.23 Christ was powerfull in the eternall prouidence of God before creation for our election powerfull in time appointed for our Vocation Iustification Sanctification powerfull for our perseuerance and finall consummation He is God what seeke wee Hee is God what desire wee This Sonne was promised and this Sonne is come God first promised protection from hurt in his seruice hee vndertakes to keepe damage from his while they are occupied in his seruice When all the Males should goe vp to Ierusalem thrice in the yeere and none but weake women and children left at home yet God doth vndertake that no enemie should haue the heart to breake in on them Exod. 34.24 Secondly God promiseth to bestow on vs euery thing that is good nay all good Thirdly God promiseth to his a cheerfull vse of all the good benefits vouchsafed them Did not Iosiah eate and drinke and prosper while hee executed iudgement and iustice Iere. 22.15 Godlinesse hath not onely the promises of this life but of the life to come 1. Tim. 4.8 He that giues the head giues haire also God giueth vs his Kingdome and Righteousnesse which are principall how should he not adde these inferiour things also which are but accessarie to the other God will not stand for small matters with them to whom he will giue heauen This God who is so gracious this God who is so glorious this God who is so mercifull and liberall must be remembred Thirdly the dangers which follow the forgetfulnesse of God should incite vs to remember God Such as forget God shall be punished Forgetfulnesse is a cause of first Spirituall punishment secondly of Corporall thirdly of Eternall It is a cause of spirituall punishment in the soule of corporall punishments in the body and of eternall both in body and soule at the day of Iudgement Vse 2 Secondly

are old because they practised them when they were young If I should be demanded why there are so few good old men I answer because there were so many naughtie young men for youth spent in vanitie commonly ends old age in prophanenesse The Prophet calleth some sinnes Crimson sinnes sinnes of a double die Esay 1.18 If it be right Purple it is dyed both in the Wooll and in the Thread and then it is deepe So if Satan die vs in our Wooll in our youth before we be men before we be made cloth it is likely to sticke by vs. It is in a man as in other things in breaking of Horses luring of Hawkes trayning of Dogges which must be done while they are young so must man in his youth be trained vp in the feare of the Lord. The Diseases of the Spring are more curable then those of Autumne So the sinnes of youth are more curable then those of age but when a man is soaked in them hee is past cure If Satan can make our youth vnprofitable there cannot any good be looked for of the after ages without the great mercy of Almightie God Hence commeth those speeches of sinnes which a man hath continued in I would faine but I cannot leaue them whereby it comes to passe that where one doth recouer fortie rot away If the Deuill nip the Blossome what hope is there of Fruit. When a man hath long had a trustie Seruant he is loth to forgoe him he will rather increase his wages So the Deuill will be loth to forgoe him in his age who serued him in his youth The sinnes of youth sticke fast by a man hee can hardly leaue them youth being like a new Morter wherein if you stampe Garlicke it will a long time smell of it and though they repent and come home yet they carry the smell of the Garlicke Morter wheresoeuer they goe The vessell will rellish of the first liquour What iniurie doe men to themselues by liuing prophanely in youth when they bee old they dare not reprehend so sharply as others nor punish so seuerely as they should because the sinnes of their youth are so in their foreheads that all men see them God will haue the first fruites and the first borne are due to him The Autumne cannot see the fruit of those trees whose blossomes the Spring-time neuer saw If men begin not to loue vertue in youth it will bee a harsh thing for them for to wooe her in old age when the threed of life shall be tentred and drawne euen to the vtmost length Because the Deuill hath a speciall affection to this Reas 2 age knowing that if hee get youth hee hath oftentimes mans age too Sathan doth not easily forsake his hold nor surrender his possession though he be not an Angell of light 2. Cor. 11.14 yet he would be like one Though he seldome speake truth yet he is more beleeued then God the Authour of truth Though he damned many Soules yet hee is serued by youth and followed by them in troupes Hee hath such varieties of pleasures which he presenteth to them that they are bewitched by them hee is an vnreasonable insatiable vsurping tyrant yet youth will not hearken to Gods word who saith resist the deuill Iam. 4.7 It is lamentable that no age doth so much despise the Word as youth which must stand in neede of it It is now a rare thing to find among yong men a Ioseph or a Samuel where they should liue as Nazarites consecrated to the Lord Amos 2.11 they are rather like men who haue vowed and dedicated themselues vnto Sathan As the sonnes of Eli despised the rebuke of their father So yong men now for the most part are impatient of of the rebukes of the Word contemning the medicine The prodigall sonne had foure prouocations First his portion Secondly his fathers indulgence Thirdly ill companie Fourthly youth these the Deuill vseth as so many baites to take young men withall these hurt yong men much Till the portion was spent the prodigall thought not vpon returning home The prodigall man while he spendeth is magnified when hee is spent is pitied and that is all his recompence for his lauishing The indulgence of the father to conniue winke at the faults of their Children doth breede in their Children a forgetfulnesse of their Creator Ill companie hurt youth for such are they for the most part as they are with whom familiarly they liue and with whom for the most part they spend their time All waters in temperature in colour and in taste agree with the nature and the disposition of those grounds and of that earth through which they make their secret passages and their wayes In like manner men practise those things which by frequent custome they haue deriued to themselues from those with whom they haue conuersed Youth is so wanton and wild so rude and vnruly so lose and lewde that vnlesse God saue the Deuill will destroy vnlesse God draw them the Deuill will keepe them Reas 3 Young men should remember their Creator in youth considering their naturall corruption they are corrupt Children Esa 1.4 They know nothing but how to corrupt themselues their wayes their liues their actions their neighbours by euill councel and euill examples themselues by euill exercises This naturall corruption is most deformed a monster both vgly and fearefull If naturall corruption will haue yong men eate till they surfeite and drinke till they bee drunke you shall finde multitudes of them that will doe it though they consume goods body estate and damme the Soule If naturall corruption will haue yong men bee wantons there will bee some that will fit and addresse themselues for it by lurking here and there in corners frequenting dishonest places vsing idle and immodest Exercises corrupt and rotten communication stuffed with vaine vnfruitfull Iestes and prophane passages It is a thing most lamentable and neuer enough to bee bewailed to see many young persons whose dayly practise and trade of life is to corrupt their flesh in lying deceiuing seeking vnlawfull and vngodly gaines slaundring and backbiting their neighbours spending their time wantonly and wickedly for which one day they must giue account to GOD. The first vse serueth for our instruction seeing Vse 1 yong men are hardest to bee reformed they should learne to bee Godly in their youth It is good for a man to beare the yoke in his youth Lament 3.17 It is good for a man to remember his Creator in his youth Some will say shall youth spend no time in pleasure What not halfe a mans youth Not a day now and then not an houre Surely GOD will not allow a minute of time to bee spent in vaine Yong men will say wee will become good and liue Grauely hereafter and behaue our selues soberly we will amend when we are old This is to make a couenant with the Deuill thou wilt be Gods but not yet As Foelix said to Paul Goe thy way