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A97294	Some prison meditations and directions on several subjects viz. on [brace] the fall of man, the sufferings of Christ, repentance and faith, reproof and counsel, the holy Scriptures, prayer, love to mankind, sincerity, the vanity of the world, the benefit of affliction, heaven and hell / by Samuel Young, minister of the Gospel.	Trepidantium Malleus.	1684 (1684)	Wing Y88A; ESTC R43962	59,844	144

easily take Air or be seen by them in the Family They are one Body and contentions between them are as if there should be a fight between the Members of the Body As if the mouth should bite the hand and the hand strike the mouth A wrathful temper is commonly gotten by conversing with angry men and therefore saith the Wise man Make no friendship with an angry man and with a furious man thou shalt not go lest thou learn his wayes and get a snare to thy Soul Prov. 22.24 25. Beware of men of keen Spirits That man will never live comfortably that hath not learned to slight what others think and say of him that liveth not in the frequent consideration of other mens vertues and his own defects Epictetus in the 48 Chap. of his Morals saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If any man tell you that such a man spoke against you do not so much stand in vindication of your self as ingenuously to confess that if that man had known the whole course of your life he had charged you with more faults Few men are so humble as to say The fault was mine though they certainly know it is so Kindness and Love is shewn as in forgiving injuries so in supplying necessities Here we may bewail the disparity that is between many poor mens pains and their wages Though common wages be paid yet the pay is according to custome more than desert Etiamsi stipendia usitata praestentur saith Ames de Consci consuetudini magis quam sufficientiae satisfaciunt Then for Charity to the poor No man that hath loved the world better than his duty or Christ in his Members Mat. 25.35 shall be found at the right hand of Jesus in the great day The saying of Salvian ad Ecclesiam Catholicam hath been of great use to me times without number Opes quas habes in hoc mundo temporarias bene utendo facies sempiternas Charity makes Temporal Riches to be Eternal We have the benefit of them for ever DIRECTIONS 1. Remember what God Commands you to give to the poor that you have no right to and it is theft to detain it as may be made clear by this plain comparison One man by a Carrier sends so much money or goods to another if that Carrier keep all because all came to his hands he is a Thief and is dealt with as such God hath sent so much to the distressed by you if you give not you wrong them Obj. God hath sent so much some may say How much Answ Ask God by Prayer Scripture by reading Conscience by Consideration Prov. 3.97 With-hold not good from him to whom it is due Luke 16.12 If ye have been unfaithful in that which is another mans 2. Conclude on it if the poor die for want of what we are bound to give them we are Manslayers and Murtherers before God He that sees a man in the water and will not help him out when he can with ease he is as really guilty of his death as if he had thrown him in How many poor men good men have perished for want of their right If God should say to some great men rich men as he did to Cain Where is Abel thy Brother So where is the poor man thy Brother It may be he would answer as he Am I my Brothers Keeper But the same reply shall be made by the Lord What hast thou done The Voice of thy Brothers Blood cryeth unto me from the ground and now thou art Cursed Gen. 4.9 10 11. 3. Remember what an honour it is to be Gods Almoner What if God in Scripture had named you as Josiah by name and call'd on you to the work would you not chearfully have set about the work How did Job rejoyce in the performance of this duty Job 29.13 14 15 16. He caused the Widows heart to sing That his Judgment was a Robe and a Diade That he was eyes to the Blind and feet to the lame and a Father to the Poor Some object Times are hard I answer Mens Hearts are so Obj. Money is scarce Answ How is it then you have so much to lay out in unnecessary Attire Dishes at your Tables in Pleasures How comes so much to be spent in Alehouses and Taverns This O vain man is but a Fig-leaf to cover thy nakedness Obj. Others do plead Few of the great Professors of Religion do mind this work Answ I answer But from the Beginning it was not so The Jews under the Old Testament did much Christians in Pauls time did much Do not what most Professors do but what the best do Many in our time have acted worthily The famous Mr. Gouge now in Glory he set up an Hundred and fifty Schools in Wales and went at least once a year to visit them gave away many Bibles and Catechisms and took great pains in instructing Children in the Principles of Religion and would often say That he had two Livings the one in Wales the other in Christ-Church Hospital in London where he had done much good that he would not part with for a world My never to be forgotten Friend the Reverend Mr. Fairclougb of Bristol his Purse was alwayes open for pious uses especially for educating young men in order to the Ministry I might say much of Mr. Henry Stubbes my Father-in-Law were it not that it seems better to become another mans Pen than mine There are yet alive many men that are forward for works of Charity Obj. Some say What shall I do for hereafter Answ If thou hadst Faith as a grain of Mustard-Seed thou wouldst say to this Mountain of Distrust be thou removed and cast into the Sea and it would be done Can you trust God for things eternal and not for things momentary Luk. 16.9 Make you friends with the Mammon of Vnrighteousness Riches are unrighteously gotten by some unrighteously spent by others but unrighteously kept by many more Many get that honestly which they do not honestly keep It is by Gods Law another mans right I say to the Covetous as Christ to that man Stretch forth thy withered hand We read of them Amos 6.4 5 6. That invent instruments of Musick drink wine in Boles and are not grieved for the Afflictions of Joseph Let such yet say as David when the Lord gave him rest 2 Sam. 7.1 2. When he sat in his house he said to Nathan the Propet I dwell in a house of Cedar but the Ark of God dwelleth within Curtains So I am at ease but many Saints in trouble Love to the Ungodly is also evidenced in mourning for their Sins 2 Pet. 2.8 would there were more Lots whose Righteous Souls in hearing and seeing are vexed from day to day for the Sins of the Wicked It is not how many tears there are in the eyes but how much sorrow there is in the heart Let your heart bleed because of them who are going merrily to the place of Lamentation Misery and Wo

Beasts be not men or why I was not Christs Humane Nature is not for us to ask so he Ephes 1.4 You that were chosen that you might be holy not because he foresaw you would be holy so you were chosen to Grace as well as to Glory Blessed are the eyes that see the things that you see You are kept by the mighty power of God through Faith unto Salvation No man shall be able to pluck you out of Christs hand If any say then let the Sincere do what they will they cannot be damned Though they shall not be damned yet they may be severely scourged God can take away their peace of Conscience deprive them of much Communion with himself cross them in their enjoyments and make them to go weeping to their Graves If any reading our Statute-Law say The breaking of such a Law is only the loss of my liberty not of my life or of my hand not of my head and therefore I fear not Law every one would deride him 2 Pet. 3.18 Grow in Grace is Gods Command to them that have Grace and they do so though the change at first be more sensible Let a white cloath be died black the first dip makes a sensible wonderful change dip it again it is more black but the change not so sensible as before So it is with the first and after acts of Grace first and after Duties 5. Let us learn more to enquire into the state and condition of our own Souls and less into the state and condition of other mens Souls I may know my self but not so easily another man some great Professors prove vile some weak ones serious that Dr. Sibs saith that Bucer after long experience of this said he would not exclude from the Lords Supper that man that had Aliquid Christi any thing of Christ I have heard of that holy man of God Mr. Cotton of New-England that he once said to his Congregation who were not pleased with it That if any Indian or other should step forth and say I love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and truth and should testifie his willingness to walk according to the Gospel though his defects were great for Ignorance c. that he would admit him to the Lords Table We all are of the mind of the Church of England that no scandalous person c. should be admitted and therefore by the way many Ministers are Non-conformists to their own Canons and Orders I would admit any man that by converse with him I had reason to believe to be sincere though I had great fears to the contrary Whilst I am writing of this blessed Ordinance this binding Ordinance this Ordinance God so much blesseth for the carrying on a work of Grace Remember we there receive the Body of Christ Mat. 26.26 The Elements though not changed in nature yet are changed in use As Wax in Writings of great use differs from common Wax One thus expresseth himself A Prince sends an Ambassadour and offers a Woman his Son and gives the Effigies or Picture of him the young Prince in Person not the bare Effigies of him is now given In Person how Not in present personal physical possession but in the true right of Relation as a Husband So is Christ given how Not by any transubstantiation but as a Saviour In this Ordinance God reviveth the decaying Graces of his People and gives them more strength It is with our Souls as with our Bodies they are sometimes sick and out of Order As sometimes when the body is sick the eyes cannot see well nor the mouth taste well nor the hands work well nor the feet go well by Physick Cordials or some means we are revived and all is well Some temptations corruptions cares of the world bring our Souls out of order that the Eye of Faith waxeth dim the hands of good Works grow weak and hang down the feet of affections are feeble But Gods Ordinances and especially this of the Sacrament revives us and sets us right again Sincerity then is the chief thing and above all gettings we should get it the Price of it is above Gold above all Treasures He that gets it not gets nothing in the world worth the having Solomon saith Fearing God keeping his Commandements which is the same with being sincere is the whole of man Eccles 12.13 for he had proved all other things to be Vanities But of that in the next Chapter CHAP. IX Of the Vanity of the World MEDITATIONS ALL things are Vanity All our Enjoyments pass away like our dreams We sometimes have really eaten drunken and diverted our selves with our Friends which time we desired before it came delighted in it when it came We have sometimes dreamt we have eaten drunken and diverted our selves with our Friend and we had then pleasure in our imaginations What difference is there now in respect of delight between the using these things and the dreaming of them So omon saith it often in his Ecclesiastes that all things are vanity but who thinks of it O Death when thou whisperest this truth in the ear of a vain ungodly man thou wilt make him to tremble though the often hearing of it now will not make him thoughtfull Whatever in matters of Religion men may deny this they cannot deny Take the Goliahs of their Camp the Giants in all Acts of wickedness they cannot gainsay this such a place as this cuts to the heart Job 14.20 Thou prevailest for ever against him and he passeth thou changest his countenance and sendest him away All the poor shift is that they will put these things out of their Minds Oh but they cannot put them out of the Bible Here we are but for a moment and we are all hastening to a place where we shall be for ever O Eternity thou that hast made so many stout hearts to quake and tremble let all men ever remember thee When we were Children we thought we should never forget the Servants that we loved the delights that we took up with and now all is nothing to us within a little time all our present enjoyments will signifie no more to us than those do now Above five thousand years were gone in the world before ever we were seen or thought of and here we look about the world and are gone out of it DIRECTIONS 1. Call to mind how uncertain the things of the world have been to many of our fellow-Creatures before us Exod. 14.2 Pharaoh King of Egypt was drowned in the Red Sea Dan. 4.33 Nebuchadnezar was made as a Beast in the field for seven year Acts 12.2 Herod that glittered in his Royal Robes was eaten of Worms Antonius Heliogabalus Emperour of the Romans his Garments were very costly and yet he would never wear one Garment twice his Shoes were embellished with Pearls and Diamonds his way was strewed with Powder of Gold and Silver his Vessels of baser sort were all of Gold his Rings

about which we differ they will be saved We all grant Repentance Faith and a Holy Life necessary Mind these things Would to God I had spent some of the hours in enquiring how my Soul might be bowed down before God in Prayer that I have spent in enquiring whether I should Pray in my own words or the words of others that I had more enquired how I might come to the Lords Table Hungring and Thirsting after Righteousness and less what gesture I should there use You know my Brethren your own Judgments often change in the smaller matters of Religion which may make you moderate towards them that dissent from you seeing you so often dissent from your selves As the Body changeth in a few years old matter passeth away and there comes a succession of new so every enquiring thinking man knows that what he thought lawful at one time he hath thought unlawful at another and cannot help it Testifie my Brethren testifie against the formal men of all your perswasions who when they plead for the high things in Religion do it with so much coldness as if their words did freeze in their mouths but when for their little notions are so full of rage and fury as if wrath and envy had chosen their faces to discover their complexion to the world But remember you are Christians and Christians must love one another Germanicus in his Speech to the Souldiers when there was a mutiny among them Tacitus said Divus Julius seditionem exercitus uno verbo compescuit Quirites vocando that Julius Caesar ended a sedition in an Army by one word calling them Romans he bad them remember they were Romans so you are Christians If the hand have the Palsie and shakes much and can hardly hold any thing who is presently for Amputation or cutting it off Learn you of Paul Rom. 1●1 2. Him that is weak in the Faith receive you but not to doubtful disputations For one believeth that he may eat all things another who is weak eateth herbs v. 13. Let us not therefore judge one another any more v. 19. Let us therefore follow after the things that make for Peace and the things whereby we may Edifie one another I know not how my counsel may take with some of you I know that he that cometh between two that are fighting to part them is sometime beaten by both I know that some on the one hand will be offended and charge me that I seem to countenance Superstition and others on the other hand will say that I favour Schism but I matter not The Protestant Church the Vessel in which we are is ready to sink Lord save us or else we perish God be merciful to those desperate Souls who because we cannot agree therefore reject all Religion as if a man at Sea seeing the waves urgent and hearing the winds roaring should say if this 't is to be in a Ship I will never here abide and so commit himself to the vast Ocean So are they that reject all Religion because of the Contentions that are in the Church of God and fall into Atheism and Prophaneness Accept kindly of this plain Discourse devoid of all Embellishments of fine words and Phrases and take up with the great things of Religion as you are directed by one that is of Pauls mind who saith of himself 1 Cor. 9.20 21 22. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew that I might gain the Jews to them that are under the Law as under the Law that I might gain them that are under the Law to the weak became I as weak that I might gain the weak I am made observe all things to all men that by all means I might save some Had some weak headed Christians among us seen him thus to do perhaps they would have said that Paul often changed his Religion or could not tell what Religion to be of that he was not fixt or a man of no Principles Hear what he says elsewhere 1 Cor. 10.33 Even as I please all men in all things not seeking mine own profit but the profit of many that they might be saved As far as I can I am yours in your divers ways of worshipping one Lord Jesus Christ This I am resolved on that having been instrumental for the Conversion of many Souls and I hope shall of many more yet ungathered that I will Preach Repentance Faith and Obedience to the Gospel Grow my Brethren Grow in Grace that you may have that commendation given to the Church of Thyatira I know thy Works and Charity and Service and Faith and thy Patience and thy works and the last to be more than the first Rev. 2.19 But Oh! That my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of Tears that I might weep day and night not only for the Prophaneness of the Ungodly but for the backwardness of the Righteous to all good works I cry to you as in that Song Judg. 5.12 Awake awake Deborah Awake awake Set about the work to be more serious your selves and to sound an Alarm in the ears of a drowsie sleepy world that they may be saved That this may be your work is the hearty Desire and Prayer of him who is Your Brother And Servant in our Lord Samuel Young Gloucester Goal Feb. 2. 1683 4 TO ALL SEA-MEN THAT ARE Or would be Serious HAving in this Book spoken of the chief things in Religion I could not but call on you to mind these things your selves and to put others in mind of them I have you daily on my heart before the Throne of Grace that you that are serious may endeavour by Prayer by Admonitions by a good Example to make many so You that are Baptized have taken Christs Press-money have taken Christs Livery and are under an engagement to Fight under his Banner against Sin the World and the Devil testifie against the Drunkenness Swearing Uncleanness Sabbath-breaking Contempt of Prayer and Reading of Scriptures and other sins many among you are guilty of I know your great Objection is Obj. That you shall be derided if you so do this I have heard from many of you A. 1. Deride their Derision Remember what is said of Christ and when his friends heard of it they laid hold on him for they said he is beside himself Mar. 3.21 If you are accounted mad by them that are really so you have Christ for your Companion 2. It is better be derided by men now for the faithful discharge of your duty than be derided by Christ Angels and Saints another day for the neglect of your duty 3. The Derision of some may soon turn into imitation They that at first mock at good counsel may in time take it and give it to others I have seen an instance one laughing to see another minding secret Prayer and yet seeing constancy and resolution for that duty practised the same Remember if you mourn not if you pray not over the ungodly their sin is yours