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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29178	A minister's counsel to the youth of his parish when arriv'd to years of discretion : recommended to the societies in and about London / by Francis Bragge ...	Bragge, Francis, 1664-1728.	1699 (1699)	Wing B4199; ESTC R32860	70,334	248

Jesus come quickly Having thus Conducted Young Persons to the Holy Altar which unless they are extreamly wanting to themselves is next to Conducting them to Heaven I shall leave them there to the blessing of God and our Saviour who is ready to embrace them with the Arms of his Mercy and seal them with his life-giving Spirit to the Day of Eternal Redemption Only to their own Pious Meditations and Prayers they may if they please add the following Litany A LITANY FOR Young Gentlemen O God the Father of Heaven of Angels and of Men have Mercy upon us Miserable Sinners O God the Son who hast Redeem'd the World with thy most Precious Blood have Mercy upon us Miserable Sinners O God the Holy Ghost the Lord and giver of Spiritual Heavenly Life have Mercy upon us Miserable Sinners O Holy Blessed and Glorious Trinity whose Wisdom and Power and Goodness is Infinite have Mercy upon us Miserable Sinners Remember not Lord the Sins and Offences of our Youth nor be extream to mark what we have done amiss Spare us good Lord spare us a little that we may recover our strength and according to thy Mercy think thou upon us for thy goodness Spare us good Lord. From forgetting our Creator in the Days of our Youth from wasting the flower of our age in vanity and folly and reserving our decrepid Years for the Service of God Good Lord deliver us From valuing the Blessings we enjoy more than the Giver of them from trusting in any thing more than in Providence and from loving Pleasure more than thee our God Good Lord deliver us From dishonouring our Bodies with Intemperance and Vncleanness from polluting our Souls with impure Imaginations from defiling our Mouths with prophane and impious or obscene Discourses Good Lord deliver us From abusing our Reason in opposing Religion from debasing our Wit to the service of our Lusts from living like Beasts when thou hast made us Men and Christians Good Lord deliver us From excesses of Passion and a turbulent Spirit from tormenting our selves because others misuse us from the guilt and the misery of Malice and Revenge Good Lord deliver us From Conceit and Pride Envy and Ambition from foolish Rashness and inconsiderate Heat from despising our Guides and following our own Counsel only Good Lord deliver us From stubborn Obstinacy and deafness to Advice from contempt of Reproof and anger at the Reprover from a blinded Mind and a seared Conscience Good Lord deliver us From deadness in thy Service and a formal Religion from obedience that is fanciful humoursome and uncertain from a superstitious use or neglect of the Ornaments of Worship Good Lord deliver us From forgetting Thee or our selves in raptures of Enthusiasm from pretending to Piety for the sake of the World and from all the Paths that lead to the Portion of Hypocrites Good Lord deliver us From conforming to the World in the Arts of Deceit from fawning and flattery Censure and Detraction from false Smiles and treacherous Friendship Good Lord deliver us From impatience in Trouble and excessive Dejections from distrust of thy Providence and Desperate Courses from fretting against God for what we bring upon our selves Good Lord deliver us In all time of Temptation by Prosperity or Adversity in all sudden Surprizes and imminent Dangers in the hour of Death and in the Day of Judgment O Blessed Jesus by all that thou hast done and suffered for us then succour and deliver us And tho' unworthy as we are and miserable Sinners yet encouraged by thy boundless Mercy and Goodness we beseech thee farther to hear us and as the Guardian and guide of our Youth shew us the way that we should walk in for we lift up our Souls unto thee Good Lord we beseech thee to hear us O that our ways might be directed by thy Commandments and our footsteps never wander from them that we might meditate upon thy Precepts and delight our selves in thy Service and never forget thy Word Good Lord we beseech thee to hear us Thy Hands have made us what we are from thee comes all we have or hope for O give us the Vnderstanding that we may entirely Praise and Love thee and not be stupid and insensible as the Beasts that perish Good Lord we beseech thee to hear us That it may please thee to inspire us with Affections becoming Christians that we may live worthy of that most Holy Profession as Disciples of Jesus and design'd for Glory We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That our Saviours life may be the rule of ours that we may tread in his steps and become like him in temper and spend our days as he did in advancing thy Glory and doing good in our Generation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That we may employ our Youth and our Strength in the great work of our Salvation and run the way of thy Commandments with vigour and spirit and the warmth and fervour of a chearful Mind We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That Religion may be esteem'd by us as our chief good that all things else may be subservient to it as the delight and the joy of our hearts Good Lord we beseech thee to hear us That our Faith may be irreproveable steady and modest such as may work by Love and purifie our Hearts and bring down every thing that exalts it self against obedience to Christ Good Lord we beseech thee to hear us That with our whole Heart we may devote our selves to thy Service and be sincerely what we do Profess and value the Joys of a quiet Conscience above thousands of Gold and Silver We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That our Baptismal Vow may be kept Inviolate the Promises we have since made to thee faithfully perform'd and all our Pious Resolutions made good We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. O let us not go wrong thou guide of our steps O let us not fall thou that art our Support Discover to us the snares that are laid for our Souls and grant that we may ever escape them Good Lord we beseech thee to hear us And when we are down Lord do thou raise us up When we go astray like Sheep that are lost O seek thy Servants pity our sad state and bring us back unto thy fold again Good Lord we beseech thee to hear us We will think on our ways and turn our feet unto thy Testimonies we will make haste without delay to keep thy righteous Judgments with thy assistance which we humbly beg and Beseech thee to hear us good Lord. But who can tell how often he offendeth Cleanse thou us therefore from our secret faults and keep us from presumptuous Sins lest they get the Dominion over us Good Lord we beseech thee to hear us May we never despise the Riches of thy long-suffering and forbearance nor by our continu'd impenitence treasure up Wrath against the day of Wrath but be intirely softned

Promises and Vows which every Christian we know as such lies under And therefore unless we think that Youth will excuse us from every thing of this Serious Nature and that the Promises we make to our Creator and our Saviour are of less Regard than those we make to Men we must upon all accounts of Honour and Justice as well as the Reason of the Thing apply our selves and that with the soonest to be as good as our Word and conform our Faith and Practice to the Gospel Revelation as being the Condition necessary to be perform'd on our Part in order to our being finally the better for what Christ has done on His. And that such is the Condition no grown Christian that has been duly instructed in his Religion as we all along suppose those to be to whom these Advices are given can be to learn The Third Advice OUR next Advice therefore to Young Persons shall be relating to their Christian Faith or in what manner they are to give their Assents to the Great Truths revealed to us in the Gospel And but too much need there is of Advice in this Case in an Age when 't is accounted a great piece of Folly and Meanness of Spirit strange Credulity unbecoming Rational Creatures to Believe any thing that they cannot fully understand and Comprehend whereby the Aweful Mysteries of our Holy Religion which make it to be what it is and distinguish it from all others by the ill Arts of Sophistry far-fetch'd Glosses and Interpretations of Men over-confident of the reach of their own Understandings are brought down even to nothing and made Contemptible But if this be not the very Height of Prophane Arrogance what is 'T is the Destruction of all Divine Faith and the greatest Ridiculing of Religion when the most exalted Truths of it shall be twisted about and distorted according to Mens extravagant Fancies and made to submit to the Imperfect Reasonings of every Bold Intruder that is Wise in his own Conceit The Advice of St. Paul therefore is Highly needful to be recommended to all young Persons whose forwardness and warmth of temper makes 'em generally too apt to grasp at every thing and confide too much in their own Wit and Parts St. Paul's Advice I say is very necessary for all young Persons in this Age of Religious Scepticism and Infidelity which we have in 1 Cor. 3.18 Let no man deceive himself if any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world let him become a fool that he may be wise That is they should so far distrust their own Reason in things of so Sublime a Nature as those we are now speaking of as to move with the greatest Caution and Modesty in their Enquiries about such Truths as these And tho as 't is fit they should they make the best use they can of the Understanding God has given them and endeavour by all due Means to Brighten and Improve it yet still Revelation should be valu'd as the surest Guide and all their own Notions humbly submitted to it For consider a little Does not common Experience assure any Man that will attend to it how very Imperfect Humane Reason is at best Don't we daily find that every Man's Understanding is of a very narrow Capacity in this World and that in things much more within our Reach than the Depths of our Religion are Now let any sensible Man say which is the most rational Course for a Man contrary to his own manifold Experience and that of all the World to centre in Himself in his Enquiry after Truths of the most exalted Nature or in a due Sense of the Defects of his own Reason to be very Diligent in seeking out and making use of better Helps and readily Assent to them upon the Testimony of the Divine Revealer tho' he cannot Comprehend the Immense Truth no r say How such things can be The things we now speak of are such as are utterly beyond the Reach not only of Humane but perhaps of any Created Understanding and which as they cou'd never have been known by us at all had not God been pleased to Reveal 'em so now they are Reveal'd cannot be known perfectly and throughly by any but the Divine Revealer But now every Man must needs confess that things of so High a Nature may be nevertheless True for being Inconsistent with a poor ignorant Mortal's former Notions and Conceptions That is in short an Infinite Understanding may Reveal what a Finite Understanding cannot Comprehend which yet ought by no means to be an Argument against the Truth of the Revelation And who that is a sincere Lover of Truth but would most willingly embrace it in what manner soever it might come to his Notice How glad of greater Light in this Dark World tho' for the present it may Dazle his Undestanding by its unusual Brightness and make him the more sensible of the Darkness he was in before Especially when assur'd that it proceeds from the Father of Lights in whom is no Darkness at all who is the Eternal Source of Truth Infinitely Wise and Good that can neither Deceive nor be Deceiv'd Psal 36.9 and in whose Light above it is that we can really see Light 'T is worth our while to take Notice here of the Behaviour of our Lord and his Apostles towads the too curious Inquirers into the Secrets of the Kingdom who we shall find have met with a Reprimand from them instead of any more Particular Satisfaction Thus when Nicodemus hear'd our Saviour Discoursing of the New Birth of a Christian John 3. and Interpos'd this Question How can these things be He could have no direct Solution of his Doubt our Lord only upbraids his Ignorance of what his own Religion might have furnish'd him with some Notion of and again affirms the Truth of what he had before asserted and then Diverts to something else And at another time when talking with the Jews about his being the True Bread that came down from Heaven John 6. and of the necessity of Eating his Flesh and Drinking his Blood if they would have the true Life and Spirit of Religion in them He returns no other Answer to their Question How can this Man give us his Flesh to eat than by Affirming that His Flesh and Blood were Meat and Drink indeed and how exceeding happy the Effect would be of eating the one and drinking the other and even to his own Disciples all the Satisfaction he thought fit to give so far as we can learn was only this The Words that I speak unto you they are Spirit and they are Life When he discours'd of his being the Son of God and One with the Father and that from all Eternity tho' in appearance but a mean afflicted Man which exceedingly enrag'd the Jews against him and urg'd them to Blaspheme His way was only again and again to assert and affirm it and demonstrate that it was so by his Miracles