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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35189	The young mans monitor, or, A modest offer toward the pious, and vertuous composure of life from youth to riper years by Samuel Crossman.	Crossman, Samuel, 1624?-1684.; Crossman, Samuel, 1624?-1684. Young mans meditation.	1664 (1664)	Wing C7276; ESTC R24109	112,999	295

and destruction from the Almighty upon the Children of Men. A day that all are enough warned of a day that few duly provide for This is that day that shall decide that great Case which hath so long depended that shall resolve that Question of all Questions which to this hour hovers and passes to and ●ro so thoughtfully in all mens minds Then shall the Lord shew who is holy and who are his This is that day wherein the World to its utter astonishment as Iosephs Brethren troubled at the unexpected ●ight of one so little looked for so little delighted in shall yet once again hear and see more of Christ That the residue o● the great work of Redemption might be finished and the Kingdom delivered up according to the earnest longing of the whole Creation in the fulness of its glory to the Father This is once more that day wherein grace and grace alone shall find favour in the eyes of God Hypocrisie shall then shelter none Estates shall then buy off none It is the just Judge of the whole Earth who sitteth then upon our trials and a righteous judgement according as every mans Case shall then be sound he will impartially pass None can here plead ignorance o● say they heard not of it Enoch the seventh from Adam so long ago prophesied of this so openly that who would might understand it Behold he cometh with ten thousand of his Saints We cannot make our selves strangers to it The blind and the deaf both heard and saw it The poor Heathen awaked as amazed men and said one to another This World will one day have a tragick end and we shall all be certainly judged for what we now do Their Philosophers they freely yielded it Their Sybils and Poets dayly sung of it And all flesh may now without further thought or doubt sit down and confess with the Apostle 〈◊〉 We know we must all none excep●ted appear before the judgement seat of Christ in the solemnest case that ever was tried to receive of him according to the things done in the body whether they be good or whether they be evil 2 Cor. 5.10 Oh Young Man Young Man how often hast thou seriously thought of this day A day wherein these eyes of thine shall see Christ himself coming in the clouds with great power and glory from the brightness of whose presence Heaven and Earth shall be ready to flee away Then shalt thou see th●se Royal Officers of State the Angels of Heaven so numerously up and down amongst us attending their Masters business summoning the Graves of the Earth calling to the Waters of the Sea to deliver up their dead almost now forgotten that have been so long since committed to them Then shalt thou hear the shrill voice of the last Trumpet sounding that solemn Call to all Flesh Arise ye dead and come unto judgement Oh how loth will the Sinner be to rise at the ringing of this Watch-bell How little heart will he have to put on his old cloaths of sinful Flesh and appear in them before the Lord How loth to meet with his body in so sad a place upon so sad an occasion that they may now together as joyless Companions receive the bitter wages of all their former sins Then shall you see the Prophets Vision dry bones live indeed then shall the dead awake from their Long sleep the Father with the Son the Poor with the Rich and go to receive every one their several Sentence from the Lord. Then must the Sun be content to be darkned and the Moon to the amazement of all beholders shall become as bloud Then must the Stars like withered leaves fall from their places The Flouds roaring the Earth flaming the Elements melting the Heavens like a Scrowl of Parchment passing away and almost all Flesh shreeking and crying out In vain have we flattered our selves in vain have we put far from us the evil day Notwithstanding all our lothness it is come even the day of his wrath and who can stand before him Then comes forth the definitive Sentence from the Judge's own lips to the godly on the right hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared so long by me desired so affectionately by you Enter ye now at length once for ever into the joy of your Lord. Then also comes forth that heart-wounding Condemnation on the left hand Depart from me ye Cursed go go cursed ye are and shall now to your own everlasting smart feel it far from any rayes of blessedness shining upon you shall your place henceforth be and your condition as far from rest or ease Depart from me ye Cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Then shall that slighted word Eternity trampled so much under foot now be found and felt a ponderous thing indeed This oh this shall make the night of Sinners sorrow so doleful to him there shall never never never more arise or shine any day upon him Never so many aking hearts never so many pale faces seen together since the World began Then shall the stout hearted be spoiled and he that knew not how to brook the fe●r of the Almighty here on earth his spirits shall then fail him apace his heart shall thenceforth meditate terrour and his own tongue confess his punishment is now become greater than he knows either how to avoid or how possibly to bear This great day is to the pious young man the Memorial of all Memorials a cogent and constraining argument to bring him into Gods Vineyard As the Apostle calls it the terrour of the Lord and he is willing it should perswade him He goes up to his Watch-tower he concludes with himself what ever lies neglected this day must be timely provided for and he prepareth unfainedly as he is able for it 1. He first spreadeth his hands toward heaven and draweth with much humility toward God Having been so exceeding sinful hitherto he is loth to be false or further dilingenuous now He freely confesses guilty And what could easily enough be proved against him if he should go about to deny it he filially acknowledgeth passing sentence upon himself as one whom God for his manifold and hainous sins most righteously might condemn Yet still hoping the Lord will give him the benefit of his reading and the blessed favour of that sweet Scripture He that judgeth himself shall not be judged of the Lord. 2. He then beforehand entreats the Judge himself for the Lord in his stupendious mercy allows it to become his Advocate He dares not indeed trust his Case in any meaner hands He now putteth the very hopes of his life in his Saviours righteousness saying That and that alone is the righteousness that can answer for him in times to come 3. He lastly resolves to set the straightest steps to take the greatest heed to his whole Conversation doing those things

as that which quencheth the subordinate sweetness of life as that which overthrows what were otherwaies lovely in nature Nor yet on the other hand content your selves with bare nature without the true grace of God which is ten thousand times more worth and better indeed than life it self Be ye in Gods name frugal of all the just comforts of this life slight them not waste them not they are the dear gifts of God the God of all our mercies the portion that is given us outwardly under the Sun But if the Lord be willing to sanctifie these and bestow yet greater then them upon us let us not neglect let us not despise our own advantages but accept it with all humble thankfulness that our water may thus be turned into wine Now therefore that you may the more understandingly comport with these great Concerns and the better see what lies before you it will be very necessary for you what you can solidly to inform and satisfie your selves very particularly in these three things 1. The world into which you are now come and for a time to live what that is 2. The great ends for which you are thus set on shore and now sent hither what they are 3. The true way and means whereby these righteous and desirable ends might be at length happily attained He that once understands where he is what he hath indeed to do and how he may fairly and safely compass his work needs not stand idle in the Market-place he hath enough to take up both his hands and heart withall God grant that you may go ingenuously into your Lords Vineyard and willingly work the work for which you were sent into the world First Then be contented to sit down and consider what kind of world this is into which you are now come It may availe you in the sequel of your life to have throughly known it ere you be further involved in it It is a world that too much encumbers most but solidly contenteth none Our Stage indeed whereon to act but not our Bed whereon to rest The Ancients who observed and enquired very studiously after it have plainly told us what we shall ●lso find it A true Enemy in the disguised cloaths and habit of a Friend The Young man by mistake fondly calls it Naomi and saies it is ple●sant The Elder by de●r-bought experience finds it Marah and cries out oh it is bitter Such is this world as the Tents of Kedar which you are now for a season come to take up your quarters in It was once indeed a beautiful Palace the glory of God shining without any clouds in its full brightness upon it The furniture of it when God took the first Inventory thereof all exceeding good But now sin hath marred it like that girdle by the river Euphrates as a Vesture it is changed and its former beauty is departed from it Satan is now by the permission of God become the Prince and God of this world The furniture of it now joyless enough All that is in the world and that All both scant and sad enough is the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life The Favorites of it Gods Foes Whosoever will be the friend of this world maketh himself the enemy of God Sweet Children slatter not your selves with vain hopes this is not your resting place arise it will deceive you it will destroy you Here may we too truly soe the course of nature dayly set on fire The children of men whom God hath made all of one blood that we might unsainedly seek the good each of other almost every man breathing strife hunting his brother with a net lying in wait to revile to supplant and to destroy Here may we as sad spectators behold before our eyes the righteous ends of Creation almost every where perverted and the good Creatures of God vilely abused and made subject to bondage to serve the lusts the beastly lusts of sinful men Such I may once more inform you is the world that you are now as strangers and pilgrims come into If afterwards you meet with rough waters and m●nifold troubles scarce now it may be so much as expected or lookt for by you you must not marvel as if some strange thing befell you remember this only word it is the World a raging Sea which cannot rest whereon you sail If temptations hereafter on all sides endanger your souls you are also forewarned of it This is that wilderness where so many fiery Serpents will be stinging of us Trust not oh trust not to that which hath undone so many Though it appear as the plains of Sodom once to Lot like the garden of God for sensual pleasantness choose it not it must as Sodom be destroyed This no better is the world into which we may now sadly welcom you You may write upon these doors and safely conclude as the Hebrews piously do in their similiar Proverb One hours sweet refreshment in that world which is to come is far to be preferred before an whole life in this 2. But now secondly being come as God once said to Elijah so may I to you What makes you here What have you ●ere to do Enquire humbly at the Word of God weigh things as you are able in your own consciences and judge impartially what you think God sent you into the world for The end in any action though it be the last thing that is actually attained and reached unto yet must it be the first thing that is espoused and thought upon Before we let the Arrow go we had need take heed our eye be first upon the White You are as Servants going to Market upon your Masters business Dear Children be willing to take your Errand carefully and God Almighty grant that when you go home in the Evening of your Life to stand before your Master you may be able truly to say Father I have glorified thy name on earth I have truly though but weakly finished the work thou gavest me to do You came not hither to trisle away your precious hours in vain pastimes No no time is of it self withou● these too nimble and h●stens too fast from us You came not hither to tre●sure up further wrath against the day of wrath our danger is too great already You came not hither upon a sensual errand to make provision for the lusts of the flesh as if the Soul had nothing to do but to become as many would have it a Cook or Cup-bearer or some Kitchin-servant to the body You came not hither Gehazi like to run after the Chariot wheel of a foolish sickle world for change o● Raiment or peeces of Silver Take heed you embase not your selves to any of these things they are far below you as Men much more below you as Christians You came hither upon business of more consequence On that great Errand