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soul_n	apostle_n	holy_a	zion_n	28	3	8.8898	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02360	A yong mans inquisition, or triall VVhereby all young men (as of all ages) may know how to redresse and direct their waies, according to Gods word, and if they bee in the way of life to saluation, or in the way of death, to condemnation. Together with a godly and most comfortable meditation and praier ioyned thereunto. By William Guilde.	Guild, William, 1586-1657.	1608 (1608)	STC 12494; ESTC S103544	93,895	285

Thou therefore that teachest another teachest thou not thy selfe thou that preachest a man should not steale doest thou steale Thou that saiest a man should not commit adultery doest thou commit adulterie thou that abhorrest idols committest thou sacriledge And therefore in his charge to Timothy he saith But thou O man of God flee from these thinges meaning pride auarice c. and follow after righteousnesse godlines faith loue patience and meekenes c. Which many men preaching onely to others may and hath become notwithstāding reprobates thēselues but the Apostle hauing in his own life first practised his own doctrine to others and like a Cocke wakened and raised himselfe first by his voyce sheweth the like dutie to all other Pastours in a holy li●e to goe before their sheepe when he saith Be ye followers of mee and in another place adding as I am of Christ. For as Aaron had vpon his breast Vrim Thumim that is knowledge and holinesse so must euery true Minister haue the same in his breast and heart the one to preach well and goe before in voyce the other to liue well and goe before in good example For I will be sanctified saith God in them that beare mee And if they that should be the light of their flocke be darknes how great is that darknes For as Am●rose in Psalm 119. saith Vita bona sine doctrina ●abet gratiam sed doctrina sine vita integritatē non ●abet And as Christ sheweth if that seruāt that knoweth not his Masters will and doeth not the same shall bee beaten with fewe stripes what shall be to him who knoweth not his Masters will and yet in some measure doeth the same But he that knoweth it yea teacheth others to know it and persuadeth himselfe that hee is a guide to the blind a light of them that are in darkenes an instructer of them that lacke discretion a teacher of the vnlearned c. and yet doth not the same himself but wilfully runnes into the pit truely hee is worthie and shall be beaten with many grieuous stripes one day Lorde graunt many in this age may preuent them Iudas preached Christ yet sold him through couetousnesse and was a child of perdition Balam said All what the Lord shall command that will I speake yet was a false couetous Prophet and likewise perished Yea the Diuell himselfe could crie out that hee knew he was that Iesus the sonne of God and so gaue publike testimonie of Christ yet he persecuted him and now is condemned Many in that last day with their true preaching shall plead miracles also yet because they wrought iniquitie they shall heare that fearefull Away from mee I know you not Therefore let all true Pastors goe before the flocke in good and godly example also in life doctrine so shining as bright lampes and starres in Christs right hand or familie saying and doing according to the counsell of the same Ambrose ibid. Nec vita sit sine doctrina nec doctrina sine vita sed vna adstipuletu● alteri and this is the second marke whereby true Pastors are knowne by Matth. 7. 17. For by their f●u●tes saith Christ you shall know them for as from Vrim or knowledge must proceed the ringing of the bels of Gods word before the people to heare so from Thumim or holines must proceed the pomegranates pleasant sauory fruits of good works to be seene and imitated of Gods people that as they are followers of Christ so they may be followers of them againe as the Apostle saith of himselfe The Lorde of the haruest increase the number of such painefull godly labourers who may not onely bee diligent in preaching but beeing zealous of good works also may shine in a good life before the flocke concredit to their charge and by these two markes bee knowne so to bee true Pastours in his owne time remoue these rauening woolues clothed in lambes skinnes who vsurpe like lords ouer the Lords inheritance seeking to feede themselues and not the flocke no waies considering that if Labans sheepe were kept by Iacob so carefully in the frost of the night without sleepe and in the burning heate of the day that much more the sheepe of Iesus Christ bought by his owne heart-blood should bee with a carefull eye ouer-seene and fed tithing the mint cumming seed but omitting weightier matters stealing killing and deuouring Christs flocke beating out their fellow seruants their separation with hypocrites is at hand the Lord graunt they may speedily preuent it The two like markes of Christs true Sh●●pe and Sheepefolde are First they heare and know their Pastors voyce and Secondly as hee goeth before them in an holy life so they follow him then as hee is not dumbe to speake so they are not deafe to heare they heare then his voyce they know it and will not follow the voyce of a stranger so that God giueth them knowledge and discretion not ignorance to bee a mother of their deuotion no● fearefull simplicitie to be led euery where if the scriptures be hid they are not to them but to those that perish they search the Scriptures their chiefe Pastors voice which testifieth of himselfe they trie the spirits if they bee of God or no and if an Angell from heauen should lay any other foundation except that which is layd Iesus Christ the Lambe or should teach any other doctrine then that which the holy Apostles haue taught they should hold him accursed they are as liuely stones in Sion builded onely vpon the foundation and doctrine of the holy Apostles they doe follow precisely and onely the voyce and written word of Iesus Christ their chiefe Pastor and Shepheard of their soules which soundeth daily in the middest of his Church and family accounting all other voyces to bee of theeues hirelings and dissembling woolues they are in Christ who is the light of the world and in whom is no darknes and according to the Apostles commaund they striue to grow in grace● and in the knowledge of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ so true sheepe must heare the Pastors voyce receiuing the seed that is sowen they must know his voyce discerning if it be good seed or no wheate or popel that is sowed And thirdly which is the second marke also of the true sheepe they must bring forth good fruite thereby according to the measure of Gods grace in them The Pastor soundeth his voyce and they heare and know it and he goeth before them and this must be their following of him by hearing commeth their faith so by their faith and from the same as the fruit and effect if it bee liuely and true proceedeth and must proceed this imitation of good workes they must follow their Pastor as he is a follower of Christ but if hee bee not according to Christs counsell and command what he biddeth obserue that obserue and doe but after his workes doe not if hee say

God on high and setting foorth the mercy of Iesus Christ their Redeemer and as their children shall bee a ioy to their heart in that present so also their God and the God of their children shall send a blessing vpon them as Genes 18. 17. vpon Abraham with whom they shal be worthily called Fathers of the faithfull God shall auert from them that shame sorrow that proceedeth to parents from their childrens liberty whereof the wise man speaketh Pro. 17. 21. 29. 15. and commandeth the contrary Giue not the waters any passage no not a little and the diuturnitie of the good of such education shall be euer vpon them and their children when after them they shal proue good fathers of faithful and godly children also and at last receiue both a crowne of glory in life eternall with God our heauenly father and Christ his sonne our Sauiour And so for the dutie and admonition of parents let this obseruation suffice to teach their children being yong how to redresse their wayes The matter concerning which the question is propounded is a yong mans way that is his course of life which must be redressed And it is a Metaphore taken from pilgrimage or iourneying wherein a man if hee would come to the right end of his iourney must keepe the true and right way without declining eyther to the left or to the right hand that he aberre not nor goe astray so that our life here beeing a pilgrimage as old Iacob confessed to Pharaoh and the Apostle 1. Pet. 2. 11. exhorteth saying Dearely beloued I exhort you as strangers and pilgrim●s abstaine from fleshly lusts which fight against the soule wherein wee haue many by-wayes which leadeth to the wrong end to wit destruction but one onely true way which leadeth to the right ende to wit Saluation which is Christ Iesus and a young man beeing the pilgrime beginning or hauing newly begun his way hee must diligently take heed and trie in what way hee insisteth and whether he treadeth the right or the wrong path and seeing in a yong mans way Sathan the leader and way to perdition on the one side is busiest to cast before him many lets and hinderances of the affections and alluring lusts of the flesh with the pleasures of youth thereby to hinder his course or draw him backe from the right way as the Syrens would Vlisses and to precipitate him headlong from the high rockes of sinne and despaire in the fearefull and deepe gulfe of vtter destruction and on the other side of all ages Youth hauing newly begun and vnacquainted with these terrifying lets being easiest by nature to be drawn away and perswaded to the inticing sweet pleasures of the flesh the world and of sinne and so in most perill to yeeld therefore a yong man must the more earnestly enquire and desire of God the way it selfe the leader and ende thereof that of his grace he would so direct and confirme him in his pathes and giue him grace and strength whereby to redresse his owne wayes and ouercome all the impediments of Sathan that insisting therin he may euer constantly persist and continue vntill hee come to the ioyfull and happy end thereof where is true rest from all labours glory infinite for a perpetuall reward The reason why a yong man in his youth and first steps of his walking should examine and redresse his wayes is this we know by experience in a iourney that the farther wee are gone from the right path which leadeth to such a place it is the harder and laborious eyther by comming backe againe to find the right high way which we foolishly lost or to come neere the place which wee wish to bee at and thererefore that it is best at the beginning of our iourney to enquire and bee instructed what way to keepe by them who know and haue tread the fame before vs and by their directions in walking forward to trie and examine our selues if we hold likewise in the right way or no or if not in time to returne while wee are not farre off So in the iourney of this life we haue a place which we aime at to wit Heauen we haue but one true way to it which is Iesus Christ and his righteousnesse out youth is the beginning or first step of our iourney therefore in it wee must know and be instructed what way to keepe and how to walke therein by the example of Iesus Christ and the faithfull who know and haue tread the same before vs and by the directions and touchstone of Gods word we must euer bee trying and examining our selues if we hold in the right way or no and if not in time shortly to returne while we are not farre gone astray in age not running in the by-waies of iniquitie in a strange countrie farre from our fathers house while wee are yong and in feeble age thinking wee can returne and find the right way againe to walke therein let no man presume so that in the day of his youth while he is able he may runne halfe way with the diuell to hell and in the night of his age when he is vnable that hee may returne easily from Sathans hold and the slymie pits of sin to walke the whole way with Christ to heauen The second reason why a yong man thus in the first steppes of his way must so take heed thereto and redresse the same is because the time of the walking in the way of this life is so short and vncertaine and therefore that wee should not trust thereto for wee see some die in the bud of infancie some in the flower of youth some in the ripenesse of mid-age and strength and some in the fall of weake rotten old age The sunne of the life of some goeth too shortly as in the winter day and of others it maketh longer delay as in the summer Our life is compared to a shaddow and we know at mid-day when the Sunne is verticall and in his greatest strength to vs the shaddow vseth to be least so oftentimes when we are in the greatest strength and vigour of youth the shaddow of our vnconstant short life is least and when wee thinke vpon many yeeres to come as the rich Glutton did commonly the sentence of vnexpected death commeth warneth to remoue Therefore in youth and euery age yea euery day and houre thereof wee haue need to suspect the vncertaine and short way of life and therein carefully and strictly examine and trie if our wayes and walkings bee in the way of the Lorde the ende whereof is eternall saluation and if not to day while wee heare his voyce and the acceptable time offereth it selfe to redresse cleanse our paths and walkings and conforming them vnto his For as all riuers and springs that come from the sea returne againe so all men that are made of the dust of the earth shall thither also returne but of the time who can say this