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duty_n	commend_v	young_a	youth_n	13	3	8.0259	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11881	Five sermons preached upon severall occasions (The texts whereof are set downe in the next page.) By Iohn Seller.	Seller, John, 1592 or 3-1648.	1636 (1636)	STC 22181; ESTC S101223	58,521	276

not onely for feare of our day of death but out of some respect also even unto the day of judgment with the wife Virgins to begin betimes to prepare oyle ready for our lamps seriously oft times to catechise our soules w th the like question of the Psalmist Wherwithall shal a yong man clense his wayes and make answer with my Text Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth In the handling of which words three things I shall breefly commend unto you First I will propose some reasons and motives to perswade the young man to be thus mindfull of his Creator Secondly I will remove those excuses which all youth for the most part are ready to pretend for the neglect of this duty Lastly I will close up all with some short and usefull remembrances which may serve to imprint and fasten this so necessary duty into the meditation and practise of our Soules In the handling whereof though I have here a young man onely to remember yet you shall see no age shall be forgotten to begin then with the first Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth and even for this cause in the dayes of thy youth because thou knowest not whether ever thou shalt live till thou art old For the life of man it is as a Shadow and our dayes are now but a spanne long nay even this short measure as by sad experience wee have too frequent triall wee see so much contracted as that wee injoy oft-times but some few inches even of this Spanne neither Few and evill are the dayes of our Pilgrimage heere on earth have wee now more reason to complaine then IACOB had Now because our dayes are evill wee had need to remember our Creator to amend them because few we were best doe it quickly lest we forgetting him he may prove too mindfull of us and in his justice cut off those few dayes of ours wherein wee have beene so evill as not to flie unto his Mercy And hence is it I should think that St. IOHN in his first Epistle doth so often stile the Saints of GOD by the name of little Children My little Children these things I write unto you Little children keepe your selves from Idols little children it is the last time not onely to expresse his fatherly and tender affection over them with whom like PAVL hee did even goe in travaile till CHRIST should bee formed in them not onely to teach them gentlenesse and humility and that hee that will enter into the Kingdome of Heaven must first stoop to the confession of the Psalmist LORD I am not high minded but even as a Child weaned from his Mothers breast so doe I behave my selfe but even in this respect also to let us understand by reason of the shortnesse and uncertainty of the life of man that even from our Childhood wee are to be trayn'd up with the childe SAMVEL to minister unto the Lord girt with a linnen Ephod while our garments are yet white and spotlesse that both Body and Soule too may as it were hand in hand grow up from strength to strength till of Children wee become perfect Men and atteyne unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of CHRIST For wee are all by Nature the children of wrath all lyable to those everlasting chaynes prepared for the Divell and his Angels and as long as this state continueth wee may complaine with REBECCA I am weary of my life and wee may sit downe with IOB and curse the day that wee were borne in and can we then think any time too soone to begin to make an agreement with our adversary by the way by our Prayer our repentance our faith in the washing of the Bloud of IESVS get the hand-writing of tne Law cancell'd and washt off that as with PAVL and SILAS in the Prison our fetters may fall away and of the children of wrath we may be redeem'd into the glorious liberty of the sonnes of GOD. For was it not madnesse in PHARAOH when as the Frogges were now swarming in the Land in his Court in his Bedchamber in his bosome and MOSES came kindly to him and when sayth hee shall I intreat for thee to destroy these Frogs was it not madnesse I say to put him off and bid him come To morrow Surely wee would thinke even but that one nights torture hee would have redeem'd rather though with the one halfe of his Kingdome and are not our Sinnes as noysome companions as those unwelcome guests of his When then our conscience like Moses shall say unto our Soules when shall I intreat the Lord to destroy these sinnes should wee not be more mad then Pharaoh did we reply To morrow no To day if you will heare his voyce harden not your hearts For the life of man as it is sweet so it is short too and though but one onely way wee have into the world yet many out Whether this or that shall be our end whether sooner or later it shall come this is a secret which GOD hath purposely reserv'd unto himself that so wee may ever be prepared for that from which we can never be secure Let us not then put off necessary duties to uncertaine times let us not turne Prodigals in our youth in hope of I know not how many yeares are yet to come to cry Peccavi in our age For what know wee but that even in the midst of our jollitie when we shall say unto our soule Take thy ease and be merry what know wee but that even then we may be arrested with a Thou foole this night shall thy Soule be taken from thee and then as the Tree falls so it must lye Quid enim saeculi potest esse diuturnum Ambros in Luc. lib. 4. cap. 5. cum ipsa saecula non sint diuturna For why should wee presume of our life or any thing else to continue long in this world when as the world it self hath not long to continue Secondly Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy Youth because though thou wert sure to live and wert resolv'd to sinne when thou art young yet thou art not sure to repent when thou art old and therefore why shouldst thou venture on a certaine disease upon so uncertaine a remedy For the Grace of GOD it is like the Poole of Bethesda and cureth but at set times and therefore with the Cripples in the Gospell we must waite all opportunities and call upon the name of the LORD not when our selves at leysure shall bee pleas'd to seeke after him but when hee in his mercy will vouchsafe to be found of us Indeed some Examples wee finde in holy Scripture of men who have made but a short passage unto Heaven and having not set forward toward CHRIST till they came unto full yeares have yet liv'd to overtake him before they came unto the grave The Thiefe we reade it in the Gospell in one and the same day