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A29676	Apples of gold for young men and vvomen, and a crown of glory for old men and women. Or, The happiness of being good betimes, and the honour of being an old disciple Clearly and fully discovered, and closely, and faithfully applyed. Also the young mans objections answered, and the old mans doubts resolved. By Thomas Brooks preacher of the gospel at Margarets new Fishstreet-hill.	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1657 (1657)	Wing B4922A; ESTC R214145	141,163	402

So was Joseph Mephibosheth Naboth and in latter times Luther whom they said dyed despairing when hee was alive to confute it And that Beza run away with another mans wif● And that Calvin was branded on the shoulder for a Rogue but there would be no end of this stuff should I say all that might be said I Answer the best men have been mostly reproached David was Psal 69.7 Psal 89.50 Psal 119.22 Psal 31.11 Psal 109.25 and Job was Job 19 35. ch 20.3 Job 16.10 and Jeremiah was Jer. 20.7.10 Yea this hath been the common portion of the people of God in all ages of the World in Nehemiahs time it was so Neh. 1.3 And they said unto mee the remnant that are left of the captivity are in great affliction and reproach In Davids time it was so Psal 79.4 and Psal 44.13 14. And in Jeremiahs time it was so Lam. 5.1 Remember O Lord what is come upon us Consider and behold our reproach And in Daniels time it was so Dan. 9.16 Thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us and it was so in the Apostles time Rom. 3.8 And not rather as we be slanderously reported as some affirm that wee say let us do evil that good may come whose damnation is just 2 Cor. 6.8 By honour and dishonour by evill report and good report as Deceivers and yet true so in that 1 Tim. 4.10 for therefore wee both labour and suffer reproach because wee trust in the living God c. And it was so in the Primitive times for when the Christians met together before Sun to pray the Heathens reported of them that they worshiped the Sun Tertullian and aspired after Monarchy and committed Adulteries and unnatural uncleannesses Now who is troubled who complains of that which is a common lot as Cold Winter Sickness Death c. No more should any complain of reproaches it being the common lot of the people of God in all ages yea Christ himself was sadly reproached falsly accused and strangely traduced disgraced and scandalized hee was called a Glutton a Drunkard a friend of Publicans and Sinners and judged to use the Black Art casting out Devils by Belzebub the Prince of Devils Mat. 9.34 ch 12.24 Christ hath suffered the greatest and the worst reproaches why then should you be afraid to wear that Crown of Thorns that Christ hath wore before you there is a great truth in what hee said Non potest qui pati timet ejus ess● qui passus est hee that is afraid to suffer Tertul. de fuga in persecut cannot bee his Disciple who suffered so much if the Master hath been marked with a black coal let not the servant think to go free I am heartily angry saith Luther with those that speak of my sufferings which if compared with that which Christ suffered for me are not once to be mentioned in the same day But Fourthly I Answer that all reproachers shall at last be arraigned at the highest bar of justice for all the reproaches that they have cast upon the people of God They think it strange or they think it a new world that you run not with them to the same excrss of riot 1 Pet. 4.4 Xenizontai Blasphemountes Wonder and Blaspheme speaking evil of you who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead I am in an extasy saith Picus Myrandula to think how prophane men rail upon those now whom one day they will wish they had imitated It was excellent Counsell that the Heathen Oratour gave his hearers ita vivamus Cic. 4. in Verr. ut rationem nobis reddendam arbitremur let us live as those that must give an account of all at last Chrysostome brings in Christ comforting his Disciples against reproaches speaking thus unto them what is the wrong grievous to you that now they call you Seducers and Conjurers it will not be long before they shall openly call you the Saviours and blessings of the whole world that time that shall declare all things that are now hid shall rebuke them for their lying words against you and shall kindle the splendor of your vertue Mal. 3.17 Mic. 7.9 10 11 1 Cor. 6.3 4 So they shall bee found Lyers evil speakers false accusers of others but you shall bee more clear and illustrious than the Sun and you shall have all men witnesses of your glory Such as wisely and humbly bear reproaches now shall judge reproachers at last But Fifthly I answer that God doth many times even in this life bear sad witness and testimony against the reproachers of his people Gen 12.3 2 Sam. 16.11 12 13 I will bless them that bless thee and I will curse them that curse thee Divine Justice is like Vulcans iron net that took the Gods It apprehends and condemns all that are reproachers and enemies to his people God will even in this life curse them with a witness who curse them that he blesseth Pharoah found it so and Saul found it so and Jezabel found it so and Haman found it so and the Princes of Babylon found it so and the Jews find it so to this very day And Oh the dreadful judgements and curses that God hath poured out upon the reproachers of his name of his Son of his spirit of his word of his Ordinanees and of his people in these dayes wherein we live I might give you many sad instances of such in our days whose feet justice hath taken in the snare men of abstracted conceits and sublime speculations and indeed such usually prove the great wise fools who like the larke soareth higher and higher peering and peering till at length they fall into the net of the fowler and no wonder for such persons usually are as censorious as they are curious Sixthly I Answer Paul rejoyced more in his suffering reproaches for Christs sake than he did in his being wrapt up in the third heaven 2 Cor. 12.10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities Crudelitas vestra gloria nostra your cruelty is our glory said they in Tertullian Fire sword prison famine are all delightful to me saith Basil in reproaches in necessities in persecutions in distresses for Christs sake for when I am weak then am I strong And therefore you have him often a singing this Song I Paul a Prisoner of Jesus Christ not I Paul wrapt up in the third Heaven Hee look't upon all his sufferings as Gods love tokens he look't upon all reproaches as pledges and badges of his Son-ship and therefore joyes and glories under all Christ shewed his love to him in wraping him up in the third heaven and he shewed his love to Christ in his joyful bearing of reproaches for his sake Paul rattles his chain which he bears for the Gospel and was proud of it as a woman of her ornaments saith Chrysostome Now why should that bee matter of trouble and discouragement to you that was

simple young man among many whereas late times afford greater store Ah! too many of the youths of this age in stead of flying from youthful lusts they post and pursue after youthful lusts Chrysostome speaking of youth saith it is difficilem jactabilem Chrysost Homil. 1. Ad populum fallibilem vehementissimisque egentem fraenis hard to bee ruled easy to bee drawn away apt to bee deceived and standing in need of very violent reines The Ancients did picture youth like a young man naked Lapide with a vail over his face his right hand bound behinde him his left hand loose and Time behinde him pulling one thread out of his vail every day intimating that young men are void of knowledge and blinde unfit to do good ready to do evil till Time by little and little make them wiser Well young man remember this that the least sparklings and kindlings of lusts will first or last cost thee groans and griefs tears and terrors enough These five are the sins that usually are waiting and attending on youth but from these the young man in the text was by grace preserved and secured which is more than I dare affirm of all into whose hands this treatise shall fall But though these five are the sins of youth yet they are not all the sins of youth for youth is capable of Other sins attends youth as 1 Ignorance 1 Cor. 14 20. 2 Falshood Psal 58.3 3 Excessive love of liberty 4 Impatience of councils and reproofs Jer. 31.18 19. 5 Impudency Isa 3.5 6 A trifling spirit Eccles 11.10 7 Prodigality Use and subject to all other sins whatsoever but these are the special sins that most usually waits and attends on young men when they are in the spring and morning of their youth I shall now hasten to the main use that I intend to stand upon and that is an use of Exhortation to all young persons Ah sirs as you tender the glory of God the good of your bodies the joy of your Christian friends and the salvation of your own souls bee exhorted and perswaded to bee really good betimes It was the praise and honour of Abijah that there was found in him some good thing towards the Lord in the Primrose of his child-hood Oh that it might bee your honour and happinesse to bee really good betimes that it might bee to you a praise and a name that in the morning of your youth you have begun to seek the Lord and to know and love the Lord and to get an interest and propriety in the Lord now that this Exhortation may stick and take Encouragements to Young men I beseech you seriously to weigh and ponder these following motives or considerations First 1. Motive consider It is an honour to bee good betimes A young Saint is like the morning star hee is like a pearl in a gold Ring It is mentioned as a singular honour to the beleeving Jews that they first trusted in Christ that wee should bee to the praise of his glory Ephes 1.12 who first trusted in Christ this was their praise their crown that they were first converted and turned to Christ and Christianity So Paul mentioning Andronicus and Junia doth not omit this circumstance of praise and honour Rom. 16.7 that they were in Christ before him Salute Andronicus and Junia my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners who are of note among the Apostles who also were in Christ before me And so it was the honor of the house of Stephanas 1 Cor. 16.15 that they were the first fruits of Achaia it was their glory that they were the first that received and wellcomed the Gospell in Achaia T is a greater honor for a young man to out-wrastle sinne Satan temptation the world and lusts than ever Alexander the Great could attain unto 2 Sam. 19.15 It was Judah his praise and honor that they were first in fetching home David their King Ah! Young men and women it will bee your eternal praise and honor if you shall before others if you shall bee the first among many who shall know the Lord and seek the Lord who shall receive the Lord and imbrace him who shall cleave to the Lord and serve him who shall honor the Lord and obey him who shall delight in the Lord and walk with him The Romans built Vertues and Honours Temple close together to shew that the way to honor was by vertue and indeed there is no crown to that which goodness sets upon a mans head all other honour is fading and withering Adonibezeck a mighty Prince Judg. 1.7 is suddenly made fellow commoner with the Dogs Dan. 4.28 And Nebuchadnezzar a mighty conqueror turned a grazing among the oxen And Herod reduced from a conceited God Act. 12.23 to bee the most loathsome of men living carrion arrested by the vilest of creatures upon the suit of his affronted Creatour Est 7.10 And Haman feasted with the King one day and made a feast for Crows the next I might tell you of Bajazet and Belisarius two of the greatest Commanders in the world and many others who have suddenly fallen from the top of worldly honor and felicity into the greatest contempt and misery but I shall not at this time But that honour that arises from mens being gracious betimes is such honour that the world can neither give nor take it is honour it is a Crown that will still bee green and flourishing it is honour that will bed and board with a man that will abide with a man under all tryals and changes that will to the grave that will to heaven with a man Ah Sirs It is no small honour to you who are in the spring and morning of your days that the Lord hath left upon record several instances of his Love and delight in young men 1 Sam. 16.11 12 13 hee chose David a younger brother and passes by his elder brothers hee frowns upon Esau Rom. 9.12 13 and passes by his door and sets his love and delight upon Jacob the younger brother he kindly and lovingly accepts of Abels person and sacrifice Gen. 4.3 4 5 6 and rejects both Cains person and sacrifice though hee was the elder brother Among all the Disciples John 13.23 John was the youngest and the most and best beloved There was but one young man that came to Christ Mar. 10.19 20 21. and hee came not aright and all the good that was in him was but some moral good and yet Christ loved him with a love of pitty and compassion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Greek word signifies to speak friendly and deal gently with one and so did Christ with him all which should exceedingly encourage young men to be good betimes to be gracious in the morning of their youth no way to true honour like this but Secondly The sacrifices in the Law were young Lambs and young Kids to shew that Christ our

shall bee sought for and there shall bee none and the sins of Judah and they shall not bee found for I will pardon them whom I reserve and those words and passeth by in the aforecited seventh of Micha 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the 18. according to the Hebrew Vegnober Gnal is Gnabar hee passed over and passeth over God passeth over the transgression of his heritage that is hee takes no notice of it as a man in a deep muse or as one that hath haste of businesse seeth not things before him his mind being busied about other matters hee neglects all to minde his businesse As David when hee saw in Mephibosheth the feature of his friend Jonathan took no notice of his lamenesse or any other defect or deformity So God beholding in his people the glorious image of his Son winks at all their faults and deformities which made Luther say do with mee what thou wilt since thou hast pardoned my sin and what is it to pardon sin Isa 40.1 2. but not to mention sin Fifthly in his not bringing their sins into the Judgement of discussion and discovery doth best agree to those expressions of forgiving and covering Blessed is hee whose transgression is forgiven whose sin is covered Psal 32.1 In the original it is in the plural Blessednesses loe here is a plurality of blessings a chain of pearls The like expression you have in the 85. Psalm and the 2. vers Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people thou hast covered all their sin Selah For the understanding of these Scriptures aright take notice that to cover is a Metaphorical expression covering is such an action Sic velantur ut in judicio non revelentur which is opposed to disclosure to bee covered is to bee so hid and closed as not to appear Some make the Metaphor from filthy loathsome objects which are covered from our eyes as dead carkasses are buried under the ground some from garments that are put upon us to cover our nakedness others from the Egyptians that were drowned in the red Sea and so covered with water others from a great gulf in the earth that is filled up and covered with earth injected into it And others make it in the last place an allusive expression to the Mercy-seat over which was a covering now all these Metaphors in the general tend to shew this that the Lord will not look he will not see hee will not take notice of the sins hee hath pardoned to call them any more to a judicial account As when a Prince reads over many treasons and rebellions and meets with such and such which he hath pardoned he reads on he passeth by hee takes no notice of them the pardoned person shall never hear more of them hee will never call him to account for those sins more So here c. When Caesar was painted hee put his finger upon his scar his wart God puts his fingers upon all his peoples scars and warts upon all their weaknesses and infirmities that nothing can bee seen but what is fair and lovely Thou art all fair my Love and there is no spot in thee Can. 4.7 Sixthly it best agrees to that expression of not imputing of sin Psal 32.2 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity and in whose spirit there is no guile So the Apostle in that Rom. 4.6 7 8. now not to impute iniquity is not to charge iniquity not to set iniquity upon his score who is blessed and pardoned c. Seventhly and lastly it best agrees with that expression that you have in the 103. Psalm and the 11 and 12. vers For as the Heaven is high above the Earth so great is his mercy towards them that fear him As far as the East is from the West so far hath hee removed our transgressions from us What a vast distance is there betwixt the East and the West of all visible latitudes this is the greatest and thus much for the third Argument The Fourth Argument that prevails with mee to judge that Jesus Christ will not bring the sins of the Saints into the judgement of discussion and discovery in the great day is because it seems unsutable to three considerable things for Jesus Christ to proclaim the infirmities and miscarriages of his people to all the world First It seems to bee unsutable to the glory and solemnity of that day which to the Saints will bee a day of refreshing a day of restitution a day of redemption a day of coronation as hath been already proved now how sutable to this great day of solemnity the proclamation of the Saints sins will be I leave the Reader to judge Secondly It seems unsutable to all those near and dear relations that Jesus Christ stands in towards his Isa 9 6. Heb. 2.11 12 Ephes 1.21 22 Rev. 19.7 John 15.1 John 2.1 2● hee stands in therelation of a Father a Brother a head a Husband a Friend an Advocate now are not all these by the law of relations bound rather to hide and keep secret at least from the world the weaknesses and infirmities of their near and dear relations and is not Christ is not Christ much more by how much hee is more a Father a Brother a Head a Husband c. in a spiritual way than any others can bee in a natural way c. Thirdly It seems very unsutable to what the Lord Jesus requires of his in this world the Lord requires that his people should cast a mantle of love of wisdome of silence and secresie over one anothers weaknesses and infirmities Prov. 10.12 1 Pet. 4.8 Hatred stirreth up strifes but love covereth all sins loves mantle is very large love will finde a hand a plaister to clap upon every sore Flavius Vespasianus the Emperour was very ready to conceal his friends vices and as ready to reveal their vertues So is divine love in the hearts of the Saints If thy Brother offend thee Mat. 18.15 go and tell him his fault between him and thee alone if he shall hear thee thou hast gained thy Brother As the Pills of reprehension are to bee gilded and sugred over with much gentlenesse and softnesse so they are to bee given in secret tell him between him and thee alone Tale-bearers and Tale-hearers are alike abominable Heaven is too hot and too holy a place for them Psal 15.3 now will Jesus Christ have us carry it thus towards offending Christians and will hee himself act otherwise nay is it an evil in us to lay open the weaknesses and infirmities of the Saints to the world and will it bee an excellency a glory a vertue in Christ to do it in the great day c. A fifth Argument is this it is the glory of a man to passe over a transgression Prov. 19.11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger and it is his glory to passe over a transgression or to passe by