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water_n	year_n	young_a	youth_n	37	3	8.2041	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49244	Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The summe and substance of XV. sermons. Preached by that faithful and painful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of Lawrence Jury, London. They being his last sermons. To which is added a funerall sermon, being the very last sermon he ever preached.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1652 (1652)	Wing L3156; ESTC R214001	127,409	242

may be a trouble to thy conscience and an aking to thy heart when thou lyest on thy death bed And though God do not remēber the sins of your youth to damne your souls yet he may make you remember them so as to be a trouble to your consciences These things which are the joyes of youth may be the bitter burdens of old age Take heed of laying a loade on thy conscience when thou art young lest God write bitter things against thee when old and make thee to possesse the sins of thy youth and fill thy bones with the sins of thy youth A second use of reproofe of two sorts of people First Of those who instead of being good when young are wicked when they are young such as fill their youth with manifold evils Usually youth is subject to these evils 1. Pride is the sin of youth a Preacher must not be a young novice lest he be lifted up with pride 2 Rashnesse and indiscretion is usually the sin of a young head Exhort young men saith Paul to Titus to be sober●minded to be discreet or wise how rash and heady was the counsell of the young men to Rehoboam which made him lose his Kingdom yeeres teach experience 3. Lustfulnesse which was the ground of Paul's caution to young Timothy It Timothy who was so abstemious a man that Paul gave him advice to drink some wine with his water had need of this caution how much more have they that are not so exercised in duties of mortification Which gave Solomon ground to give that counsel Put away the euils of thy flesh for childhood and youth are vanity He was a young man that followed the harlot to her house 4. Ficklenesse and unsetlednesse of judgement and therefore in times of errour the younger sort are most subject to be seduced Children are tossed to and fro with every winde of doctrine the hebrew calls a young man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which comes from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and signifies to tosse to and fro intimating that they are unsetled and unstaied in their judgements and resolutions How soon was the minde of that rich and forward young man changed mentioned in the Gospel 5. To scoffe and condemn the aged they were children who did mock the aged Prophet the young men derided Job 6 Sensual pleasures and pastimes they do rejoyce and chear their hearts in the days of their youth Sampson made a feast for so used the young men to do Secondly Reproof lights heavily on those who seem to be good in their youth but in their old age cast off goodness how many are like Joash who seemed to be a good young man whilst he seemed to be under the tuition of Jehojada but when he was dead how did he break out How many are there in the world who have lost their affection and desires after God which they had in their youth It was a brand set upon Solomon who though when young was well taught by his mother yet when he grew old his wives turned away his heart from God So David had his first days which were better then his last Even so amongst us we have too many who when they were young did love Religion and delight in Ordinances and when they became old have abated exceedingly which may make them to fear the sincerity of their goodness for he that is truly good in youth will be so in his old age A second remarkable circumstance is this that this young Abijah was good in the house of Jeroboam Whence observe That it is a great commendation for men to retein their goodness whilest they live in bad places and families That this is so we may see by that commendable mention the Scriptures make of such as were good in evill places Thus God commends the Church of Pergamus I know thy works and where thou dwellest even where Satans seat is and thou holdest fast my name and hast not denied my faith even in those days wherein Antipas my faithful Martyr who was slain amongst you where Satan dwelleth Pergamus was a City more given to Idolatry then all the Cities of Asia and yet there were some that held fast the name of Christ and did not deny his faith to be a Saint in Nero 's family is very commendable And the reason thereof is 1. Because many of Gods children have failed and abated much of their goodnesse in bad places How did Peter fall in the High Priests Hall though when in good company he was zealous yet there he denied Christ So Abraham when he was in Gerar and Isaac also denied their wives so Joseph in Pharaoh's Court and learn't the Court Oath to swear by the life of Pharaoh Hence God commands the children of Israel not to mixe themselves with the Heathens lest they learn their manners and customs Bad places are like bad aire for zeale to breath in as sheep amongst brairs lose part of their fleece so good men in bad company lose part of their goodnesse As one scabbed sheep may infect a whole flock so one root of bitterness may spring up and defile many 2. Reas Because it is a cleer evidence of the sincerity of a mans goodness to be good in a bad place This shews thy grace to be grace indeed when thou hast discouragements to be good and then art holy this is a demonstration that thou art sincerely good and that thy goodness is not counterfeit and taken up upon any sinister and hypocritical end It is good to be good with the good but it is most excellent to be good amongst the bad and to be best amongst the worst From hence learn the power and unlooseableness of saving grace grace makes a man good in the worst times let a man be cast into prison or bad company which is the worst temptation yet he shall not lose his grace true grace is compared to oyle now cast oyl into a vessel of water and the oyl will not mix with the water but will lie on the top grace will swim upon the water of temptation As all the water in the salt sea cannot make the fish salt so all the wicked in the world cannot change the nature of grace a good man like the fish retains his goodness in bad places thus Joseph retained his goodnesse in the Court of wicked Pharaoh Nehemiah in the Court of Artaxerxes Obadiah in Ahab's Court Daniel in Nebuchadnezzars the Saints in Nero's houshold and Abijah in wicked and idolatrous Ieroboam's house Though it be a commendable thing to be good in bad places yet you ought to bewail your living in bad places it is your misery though not your sin thus did Isaiah Wo is me I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips so David Wo is me that I dwell in