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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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to what is evil in the Will for Man is not considered in Gods Law meerly as an Agent with respect to what he occasionally acteth but he is considered also as to his temper what he is what are his governing Principles and prevailing Disposition those are necessary to the denominating him a godly or ungodly Man as well as influential into the ordinary course of his Actings which will be answerable to his inclinations and light Adam was created after Gods Image which consisted in Knowledge Righteousness and true Holiness Gen. 1. 27. Eph. 4. 23 24. Col. 3. 10. This was his Constitution tho' not so fixed as to prevent the possibility of sinning And whiles Adam sinned not our Nature was impressed with that holy Power Light and Love which answered the Law and capacitated us for that exact Obedience injoyned by it These divine Qualities were inconsistent with their Contraries by the Law of Innocency tho' they are not incompatible by the Law of Grace for that Law insisted on Perfection and entire Innocency and fixed a Forfeiture of all holy Gifts by man considered in any degree sinful yea besides this Forfeiture of these Gifts by the penal Sanction of the Law Man was not entitled to those Aids of the Spirit whereby Divine Qualities might subsist in the same Soul with contrary sinful Dispositions as they do under the Law of Grace no snch influences of the Spirit were provided in the Law of Creation and therefore as the least sin in the Soul brought down our Holiness below perfect and thereby made it cease to be Holiness by the Rule of Innocency for Love was not Love by that Law if there was any mixture of Enmity against God So sin would prevail to extinguish that Purity and expel those holy Dispositions at first implanted if once it entred into the Soul Adam did subsist a while happy under this Law but at last he sinned his Heart turned from God to the Creature which implies Ignorance in the Mind and Aversation and Enmity to God in the Will The entrance of these did of Course deprave the Soul of Adam Knowledge was expelled by Darkness corruption removed his original Purity The Disease invaded the whole Man the Poison operated to the extinction of his glorious Excellencies there was no need for God to take any good out of the Humane Nature it necessarily died by the force of sin And it is by a new grant that there be any Remains of God in lapsed man It is not from any thing in Man or in the first Covenant that there be any moral Vertues or good Nature in any God in mercy bestows these and restrains the growing Contagion of sin that we become not more devilish When holy Light and Love were expelled by Sin the appetite of course became Master of our Reason and all disorders hence ensue The Soul being cloathed with Flesh doth for want of holy Principles become subject to sensible Inclinations which through the presence of agreeable objects hurry poor Man into all that is Flesh-pleasing whiles the proper concerns of the soul are forgotten and its intercourse with unseen things is cut off for want of that Light which should perceive them and that holy Love which might relish and desire them A Soul thus debased and entangled becomes little better than an active Power to contrive Fuel for our various Lusts and receive the little delights which are ministred by Sense and Fancy Oh wretched state especially when Error and Enmity against God and Holiness help to compleat its depravedness 2. Thy Nature thus corrupted descended to thee as propagated by the appointed Law of natural Generation Adam was not only the common Head of Mankind as representing all meer Men but also he was the Original of all men in order to propagation As Representative he was capable to forfeit much good As he was the common Parent he must transmit the Nature which he had with its Impurities he was to propagate his Kind Gen. 5. 4. he begat Seth in his own likeness this is opposed to the likeness of God wherein Adam was made v. 1. Tho' Seth was the Father of the holier part of the World and a good man yet he was not begotten after Gods likeness or with a nature in its Original purity but with a Nature as depraved in fallen Adam Lapsed corrupted Nature cannot propagate a holy Nature Can a clean thing come out of an unclean Job 24. 4. How can he be pure who is born of a woman Job 25. 4. A Person naturally sinfull cannot generate a Child free from that sinfulness if the Father be naturally void of spiritual Wisdom the Son in the course of nature will be so and if we are born void of Wisdom and Holiness we must be vain foolish and ungodly for humane Nature must be unholy if it be not holy This made David own I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me Psal. 51. 5. This is so fixed a Rule that our blessed Lord must have an extraordinary generation to escape the Pollution of humane Nature Mary was found with Child of the holy Ghost Act. 1. 18 20. The Spirit overshadowed her and this Christ is the only One born holy Luk. 1. 35. Others are made holy by Grace some it may be are renewed in the Womb but none are naturally so or by Generation therefore if thou shouldst ask Why do not good Men naturally beget good Children I answer Their goodness is superadded to their Natures it comes by another Law than that of nature their Grace is from Christ for the Salvation of their own Persons but not to propagate to their Offspring by Generation Oh young Man thou seest how thou groanest under Adam's Fall and labourest under the depravedness of humane nature as propagated from Adam by thy Ancestors down to thee And is there ever a Child here but is a living Witness to this Corruption Are you not all proner to sin than holiness Is it not easier to make you vile than to make you gracious Do not fewer and weaker Arguments incline you to be wicked than to be godly Is there not that in thee which serves instead of a Tempter to evil tho there were no ill example or Solicitation from without Wert thou ever sensible of this oh Child hast thou been yet truly humbled for Original Sin Thou wert wicked whiles an Infant as to the temper of thy Soul the corrupt Nature thou then hadst is the Spring of all thy Vanity Thy nature is to be foolish to lye to be unclean and what else is vile That nature whiles unrenewed will express its unholiness and enmity against God one way or another it 's true the power of one Contrary Lust thy bodily Constitution God's Restraints Education c. may prevent the raging of some Lusts but the malignity continueth and cannot fail to govern till the Grace of Christ do alter thee Quest. 2. Why do Childhood and Youth continue
made it easie the Current of sin running has made the Channel wider and the opposition less O therefore for the Lords sake begin this day to consider the Devil is grown more impetuous by thy Consent And I can tell thee to day and let the youngest of you observe it That if thou continuest wicked thou wilt be yet more and more so And thou wouldst now blush to think what Wickedness thou wilt hereafter come to As Hazael when it was foretold him by the Prophet what Cruelties he should commit cries out Is thy Servant a Dog 2 King 8. 13. c. Thus I have finished what I intended in the Explication I now come to the Use. First by way of Inference the Lord set it home Some own'd great good on this day twelve-month may more receive good to day The Inferences then are these Inf. 1. How dismal a sight doth this Truth afford us of this World Childhood and Youth is Vanity Ah Lord how true then is it that even the whole World lies in Wickedness 1 Joh. 5. 19. the greater part doth so for Young People are many more than old ones The chief part of Age is Vanity the best part of Time is Vanity Childhood is the time fittest to learn in Youth is the time fittest to act in and yet both these are Vanity Oh how little are heavenly Designs carried on by Young Ones Oh how little is God worshipp'd and serv'd by Young ones How few of them are engag'd in their own true Concerns Dreadful that in Youth we will do nothing and in Age we can do nothing Oh who loves God and is not grieved who loves Souls and is not melted All men come sick into the World and most men grow more diseased by their stay there All come miserable and most help on each others Ruine and encrease their own Oh how many go off the Stage and have reason to wish would to God I had perish'd before I saw the light So like Hell is this present State that i'ts a wonder we are able to take any Delight therein God is serious with pleople in their younger Years and they heed it not Ministers are earnest with young People and they regard it not Ah poor Wretches they think we have nothing to do with them Oh Young Ones help us to mourn to day for I am calling on Men to mourn for you who in your Youth yield your selves up to your Lusts and thereby are injurious to Christ and cruel to your own Souls and will you be unmoved Inf. 2. What Care is incumbent on Parents and Masters in the managing of Young Persons Youth is vain and that bespeaks a suitable carriage O Parents you don't beget Angels but sinful Children you breed up corrupt ones and not perfect ones Few are sanctified in the Womb and therefore you should deal with Children as with deprav'd and corrupt Persons as with them whose Childhood and Youth is Vanity The very Distemper directs Parents and Masters in their duty and carriage towards their Children I shall especially name Parents in my Directions 1. Children are Ignorant Oh therefore take you occasion to instruct them Alas canst thou let thy Children be unacquainted with God and insensible of their own Misery or the way of their escape What must thy Child be inspir'd or it must perish for want of knowledge If it must know pray who is fittest to teach it Upon whom does it lye in point of Duty as it does upon you And who has the Advantage of doing it as thou hast Who is so like to prevail with thy Child as thy self None faithfully dedicates his Child to God in Infancy that will not carefully instruct him when of age to learn 2. Youth have unruly Appetites and therefore don't indulge them Oh that every Parent here had but his Heart open to what I say and I speak it out of pity to the Souls of Young ones 'T is an ill practice in Parents to feed their Child by the cravings of i'ts Lust and not by their own Judgment I will tell you the Mischief of it besides the laying a foundation of distemper in Age it gives the Appetite an ungovernable force Children being alwayes indulg'd in what they crave they cannot deny themselves any thing they desire and by the same rule that they must now eat what and when and drink what and when they will while they are under thy care they will be drunk and Whore c. when they grow in years their Reason cannot bridle it then as thine which ought to guide them neglects to do it now Oh dreadful thing that any Childrens Appetites should come from under their Parents tuition unbridled I look on nothing a greater Reproach to Parents And what 's the ground of all Wickedness in the World more than an Inordinate Appetite yet how few Parents do help to cure it while cureable whereas an Appetite curbed in Childhood would endure a denial in Age. 3. Youth have violent Humours and Selfishness and therefore don 't foolishly gratifie them A Child left to himself brings his Mother to shame Pr. 29. 15. Oh what a Devilish Sight how pleasing to Satan to see Children cocquer'd and Youth indulg'd It 's peevish then all must be done to please it it 's obstinate and it must have it's will it 's revengeful and it must not be check'd this is the way of most Parents And 't is just with God that Child should break your Hearts whose Will you never broke How many poor Creatures will have cause in Hell to curse their Parents Dreadful that they prove the worst Enemies to their Children under a pretence of fondness 4. Youth have many Lusts and are prone to sin therefore be afraid for them and prevent all Occasions Iob knew this Iob 1. 5. He went and offer'd Sacrifice lest his Children should have sin'd and cursed God in their hearts Oh that Parents would consider what brittle Vessels Children be what dry'd tinder Youth is Occasions though small over-rule Young Persons What then Oh then be perswaded to choose the Company of your Children for them see that it be of their own Sex and Virtuous Put them to Trades and such Trades as have the least Snares set them in Families where most Good is to be got and least evil to be catch'd Find them business and fulness of Employ and cut out their time for them Parents learn this Wisdom that your Children have no time for Idleness Marry them as soon as convenient if so be you are not very certain of their Sobriety 5. The Vanity of Youth is deeply rooted therefore be importunate pleaders and sharp Correctors If advice prevail not 't is not an easie thing to cure a Child of it's Vanity or Youth of it's Folly Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a Child the Rod of Correction will drive it far from him Prov. 22. 15. And withhold not correction from thy Child and he shall not dye Prov. 23.