9odr f udgemem on ManyCarriage. z2 5 ,1. tnflruðTimothy. toflit the lull of youth ; that is, in carnal pleafuresand paflimes, , Tim. 2. as. in voluptuoufnefs and fcnfuality, and the like: And Tie.:.. 6. Exhort young men T,t. 2.6. thatthey befober minded ; that is, that they leave this drunkennefs ofunderffanding, in being overcome with fenfual carnal objeftsand pleafures. . Job ( in the fitíl Chapter of that book) when the young people, his Sons and lob i. Daughters mettogether to fcafl, he was affraid left they iliould be mifguided in this kind, therefore the holy man in a godly care and thoughtfulnefs for their welfare, facrificed toGod, to {Hake attonement for their fin, , Let us a little confider the reafons of this Doftrine, whence it is, that young men thould be fomuch mifguided in their youth. The firft caufe is, natural corruption that they have drawn by propagation from Rea/ 1. their Parents. A fptrittial leprofle, and malady, and difeafe, which as it prevailetltl Nacu,al cor- for the moil part ), agaiufi age by covetoufnefs, fo it gettcth ground of youth WOpuon' by fenfuallity and voluptuoufnefs. Thisdams up the. againft reproof: this har- dens the heart againft inflrutiori; and makes many young men the fouldicrs of Sathan in fin. Again in the fecondplace: Men in theiryguth forget the day of their reckoning Rent z, and Judgement; they are not mindful of their latter end. Dent. 3z. az. Oh that F'rg01£uing(5 hey were mt f , that the y under flood this, that they would confider their latter end. oD£Itdgemcnt eut.3.2. mg. hisPrecept is uegleEted both by youth and age; but efpecially by thofeof younger years. For they feel their blood run warm in their veins, and they are full of ,fpirits and vigour, therefore they fuppofe that the Grave, and the bereft ofdarknef is far off from them. Again in thethird place. Young menare not brokenby afflictions: the fallow ground is not ploughed up by the preffures ofaflli. lions, which through the grace ofGod ara great means to tame nature, ,and to fubdue the prideof it, and to bring it to a right frame and temper. Before Iwauaffliêled ( faith David) 1 went affray: And Ephraim faith of himfçlf, fer. ;i. 1 was at a Bullockunaccuflamed to theyoab Iet.;r. thou chaftififf me, and 1 mat chaflifid; I was afhamed, becastfe 1 bore the reproach of myyouth. But young men are free from aches, and pains, and kinds, and forrow, much more than old age: and this is the reafon why they are more licen- tious. Laflly, young men want true joy in God: therefore they betake themfelvesto carnal joy. For fore it is that a man cannot live without joy and contentment i if he have it not from the Willi offalvation, he will drink it out of watery and filmy places. Now becaufe men in their youth cannot take in the fpirituar joy ofthat clear fountain, therefore theydrink in the muddy waters of carual joy. The ufe of this point is in the firft place anAdmonition to all young men, to ,.ake notice oftheft maladies, and fpiritual difeafes inthemfelves. The firft degree of our healing, is to fee that we are fick : and till then, Quilt Jefus the Phyfitian' ofour fouls, hathnocommiffton to do us good: Let young men obferve in themfelves; firft their carnal roy. Solomon here fheweth that they rejoyce inordinately. This may appear to them firft, becaufe they rejoyce not where they ought: they fnlaeenot themfelves inGod, inwhom is the fountain of joy, nor in Chrift Jefus, in whom is the fpring of joy r nor in the facredWord, where there is the Ciftern of Joy. Even as a bone when it is out of joynt, outof its place, it mutt needsbç adifordered bone; fo the, aífctf ions when they are mifplaced, are dffor- tiered : and then ourJoy, and any other affeftionare mifplaced, when they are not let upon God, and Chrift, Now if young men would deal uprightly with themfelves, they thouldperceive that for the molt part in their jollity and mer- rimentthey never thinkof God, ordream of theworld to come. Nay, the ferious apprehenfion ofGod Almightyt,wottildquench their joy,and make it altogether put out. Secondly, the carnalnefs of the joy ofyoung menappeareth, becaufc they re- joyce where theyought not, in riot,, in drunkenncfs, in furfeiting, in volu tu- oufnefa, many times in obfcenity of words and phrafes, in making jeafts ofthe G g word Real 3. Freedom from csoUes. Real. 4 Want of fpiri tual joy. Oft r. ForAdmoni- tion. t. To take no- tice of their carnal joy. Young mens rejoycingpro- vedtobe snot. dinare. t. Becaufeitli not placed there where it should 6e. s. Betaule it is placed these where iç thould not be.
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