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<P>The Young Mans Guide In his Way to HEAVEN. OR, A Cabinet of Rich Jewels, Containing &s;everal excellent Rules of good Coun|&s;el and directions, for the in&s;tructions of young men, and young women, in the ways of Piety, and true Ho|line&s;s, and &s;o to walk as becomes the Childeren of God.</P>
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<ITEM>1. Wherein is &s;hewed the duty of young men, to &s;eek the Lord betimes, according to that excellent Pattern of good King <HI>Jo&s;iah,</HI> and to Remember their Creator in the days of their Youth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The Sins that daily attend Youth, with &s;ome pretious Remedies again&s;t them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. The nece&s;&s;ity of being really good betimes, and con|tinuing to be an old Di&s;ciple of Chri&s;t, expre&s;&s;ed in &s;everal particulars.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Good Councel to Youth to make &s;ure of Heaven and their own Salvation here, that they may be happy for ever.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. The Souls preparation for death and ble&s;&s;ed Eternity with the &s;ighs and &s;obs of the damned in Hell for their mi&s;pent time.</ITEM>
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<P>All exemplified by Scripture, and with Hi&s;tory to the Readers Profit, delight and benefit. Being exceeding u&s;eful for the promoting of piety in youth, in the&s;e licentious times. To which is added &s;everal Godly Prayers for Youth.</P>
<P>By <HI>T. B.</HI> Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P>The Fourth Edition.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>J. Coniers,</HI> at the <HI>Black Raven</HI> in <HI>Duck-Lane.</HI> 1676.</P>
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<Q><BIBL><HI>2 Chron. 34.3.</HI></BIBL> Whil&s;t he was yet Young, he be|gan to &s;eek after the God of <HI>David</HI> his Father.</Q>
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<P>WE here Pre&s;ent to thee <HI>Reader,</HI> for thy I|mitation, as a pattern <HI>good King Jo&s;iah,</HI> he was one that &s;ought the Lord God in his Youth, and continued &s;eeking and &s;erving the Lord all his Life and Reign, which was one and thirty years in <HI>Jeru&s;alem; and he did that which was right in the &s;ight of the Lord, and walked in the way of</HI> David <HI>his Father, and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left.</HI> This whole Chapter with the next are nothing but a recital of the acts of good King <HI>Jo&s;iah,</HI> he was a holy and good King as any we read of in the book of God, and this is a commendation of him, that he &s;ought the Lord God betimes, he was good when almo&s;t all was bad and was turned to Idolatry; <HI>he in the twelfth year of his Reign began to purge</HI> Judah <HI>and</HI> Jeru&s;alem, <HI>from the high places and the Groves, the Carved Images, and Mol|ten Images; and they break down the Altar of</HI> Ba|laam <HI>in his pre&s;ence,</HI> ver&s;e 3.4. And when he had de&s;troyed all the Idols wor&s;hip, he &s;et up the Wor&s;hip of the true God, and repaired the Hou&s;e of the Lord. Great was his Zeal to God, and his true Wor&s;hip, and his hatred to Idolatry, as you may read at large in the remaining part of the Chapter.</P>
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<P>And as of all examples the be&s;t ought to be fol|lowed and imitated, &s;o I here pre&s;ent you with a mo&s;t excellent pattern, and that is of good King <HI>Jo&s;iah: he whil&s;t he was yet young &s;ought the Lord God.</HI></P>
<P><HI>From which words we &s;hall &s;hew you that it is the duty of young men and young women to &s;eek the Lord in their youth, and to be really good betimes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Rea&s;.</HI> 1. Becau&s;e youth is the mo&s;t fitte&s;t time; <HI>remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth,</HI> &s;aith <HI>Solomon, Eccl.</HI> 12.1. Not a few &s;pare hours <HI>as one well notes,</HI> but days, every day Working; it mu&s;t be in the days of thy <HI>youth,</HI> before the evil day comes, that is before age and &s;ickne&s;s &s;eize on thee, and thou be made unfit for &s;o great a work. The 2. rea&s;on is becau&s;e youth is a choo&s;ing time, Oh when thou art a choo&s;ing a fit object for thy eye or heart, Oh then think upon God, and con&s;ider if he be not the be&s;t choice: I &s;hall &s;hew you tho&s;e excellencies that are in God and Chri&s;t, that thou &s;hould&s;t choo&s;e him above all others.</P>
<P N="1">1. Are you poor, he is rich, art thou naked, Chri&s;t hath white Raiments to cloath thee; art thou &s;piritually blind, he hath Eye-&s;alve to En|lighten thee; art thou in great &s;traits, he hath <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">i&s;dom to coun&s;el thee; art thou unrighteous, un|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">oly, he will give holine&s;s &amp; &s;anctification to thee; <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">t thou a hungry or thir&s;ty, he will be the br<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ad of life and feed thee, and Wine to &s;atisfie thy
<PB REF="3">thir&s;ty Soul; art thou &s;ick, he will be thy Phy&s;iti|an; In a word, he will be all, and in all to thee, thou &s;halt want nothing that is good for thee. Thus having cho&s;en Chri&s;t to be thine, thou ha&s;t got the Pearl of great price, the riche&s;t Jewel that cannot be over valued, therefore Oh Young man get Chri&s;t, and make him your choice, and you have all that can be de&s;ired.</P>
<P N="2">2dly. Young Women let me intreat you to make the &s;ame choice that <HI>Mary</HI> did, <HI>Luke.</HI> 10, 42. But one thing is needful, <HI>Mary</HI> hath cho&s;en the good part that &s;hall not be taken from her; &s;he had cho|&s;en Chri&s;t, &s;he had got a &s;aving intere&s;t in Chri&s;t, which is this one thing nece&s;&s;ary.</P>
<P><HI>Plutarch</HI> writes of <HI>Hannibal,</HI> that when he could have taken the great City of <HI>Rome,</HI> he would not, and when he would he could not; So many in their young years, when they might have mercy and grace would not, and in their Old age, when they would have Chri&s;t, pardon, peace, and hea|ven, they cannot.</P>
<P N="3">3dly. It was the commendation of <HI>Jo&s;iah,</HI> that &s;erved the Lord betimes. And <HI>Timothy</HI> that he knew the Scriptures from a Child. And <HI>Obediah</HI> that he feared the Lord from his Youth, 1 <HI>Kings.</HI> 8, 12.</P>
<P>Again, <HI>Remember thy Creator</HI> pre&s;ently, in&s;tant|ly, for thou knowe&s;t not whether thou &s;halt ever attain to age, thou knowe&s;t not what a day may bring forth; therefore Remember to know him, to
<PB REF="3">love him, to de&s;ire, delight, to depend upon him, and to get intere&s;t in him, and to live unto him; Remembering to walk with him. Fir&s;t remember the Father, to know him and to be inwardly ac|quainted with him. 2. Remember the Son, to be|lieve and tru&s;t in him, to imbrace him, and give up thy &s;elf wholly unto him. Remember the holy Spirit, as to hear and obey his Voice, and feel his pre&s;ence, and to experience his Influence; and thus thou oughte&s;t to Remember thy Creator.</P>
<P>Saith <HI>Seneca, that though Death be before the old Mans face, yet he may be as near the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oung Mans back.</HI> Mans life is but as a &s;haddow that &s;oon pa&s;&s;eth away. And St. <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> doubteth which to call it, <HI>A dying Life, or living Death.</HI> Alas how many young Men, when God calls for the primro&s;e of their Youth and vigour; Put him off with the trembling Joynts of <HI>old Age.</HI> Ne|ver had Youth greater opportunities of being good then now, in the&s;e Golden Sun-&s;hining days of the Go&s;pel, wherein God and Chri&s;t and the holy Spirit are offered in the Go&s;pel to Sinners; Nay the greate&s;t of Sinners, that will come in and &s;ubmit to the Scepter of Chri&s;t, and be &s;aved. <HI>Oh young Men, nay all Per&s;ons; Remember</HI> in this thy day <HI>the things that belongs to thy peace, be|fore</HI> they <HI>be hid from thine Eies, and thou go hence and be no more &s;een.</HI> Remember that God will not always &s;trive with thee (<HI>Gen.</HI> 6.) by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> holy Spirit; God gives every Man and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">
<PB REF="4">a day of Grace, and if thou improve not that, thou mai&s;t be undone for ever, therefore con&s;ider Rea|der &s;eriou&s;ly on the&s;e things; <HI>Oh con&s;ider young Men, young Women, all Per&s;ons in general;</HI> that this is the acceptable time, <HI>this is thy day of grace,</HI> even this day that is before thee, <HI>now or never.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The Antients,</HI> &s;aith <HI>Era&s;mus; paint time with a hairy Forehead but bald behind, to &s;ignify that whil&s;t a Man hath opportunity before him, he may lay hold of it, but if he &s;uffer it to &s;lip away he can|not pull it back again.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. Con&s;ider of this <HI>young Men, and young We|men, you are equally concerned.</HI> Now in the flower of your days <HI>remember your Creator,</HI> and having began well, continue in well doing, knowing your labour &s;hall not bein vain in the Lord; pray, &amp; pray earne&s;tly to him for grace, and his holy Spi|rit, to mortify your corrupt <HI>Lu&s;ts and affections, you have a great many Enemies,</HI> the <HI>Fle&s;h,</HI> the <HI>World,</HI> and the <HI>Devil,</HI> and again&s;t <HI>the&s;e mu&s;t thou be</HI> al|ways &s;triving and keeping a <HI>&s;trict Watch,</HI> or thou wilt be overcome.</P>
<P>I &s;hall endeavour to &s;et before thee &s;ome of tho&s;e Sins that dayly attend youth, and the fir&s;t is <HI>Pride.</HI> And it is a Raiging Sin in young Men and young Women: at this day I think never more then now. Fir&s;t, <HI>Pride of Heart.</HI> 2dly. <HI>Pride of Apparel. Oh <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> rate &s;aith one, to &s;ee young men humble and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">, and to &s;ee an old man contented and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">.</HI> St. <HI>Bernard</HI> &s;aith, <HI>That Pride is the
<PB REF="4">Rich mans Cou&s;in, but experience &s;peaks it to be the young Men and Womens Cou&s;in.</HI></P>
<P><HI>God had three Sons,</HI> &s;aith one, <HI>Lucifer, Adam,</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;t:</HI> the fir&s;t a&s;pired to be <HI>like God in power, and was thrown from Heaven.</HI> The &s;econd <HI>like</HI> him in <HI>Knowledg,</HI> and was drove out of <HI>Eden</HI> when young. And the third was like <HI>God in good|ne&s;s, mercy, and humility,</HI> and by &s;o doing, obtain|ed an <HI>everla&s;ting Inheritance.</HI> Remember this young Men, get to be humble, and keep humble, for the humble God will teach; Pride is a great evil, and Reigneth more in young Men than ever: <HI>Con&s;ider,</HI> and leave it, <HI>lea&s;t God leave you, and that for ever.</HI> What evils did <HI>Belte&s;hazar, Haman,</HI> and <HI>Herod's</HI> Pride bring them too. Young Wo|men, let me intreat you in the Bowels of love, and out of Compa&s;&s;ion to your Immortal Souls, that our Saviour &s;o dearly brought with his mo&s;t pre|tious blood, to leave off tho&s;e patchings and pain|tings, which are the Devils Badges. <HI>O how like Mon&s;ters</HI> do too many Women in our times make them&s;elves, in their fal&s;e Hair; as Towers, and Bulls as they call them, and other ridiculous fa&s;hi|ons, and gaudy, and La&s;civious Attire; <HI>not becom|ing Women profe&s;&s;ing Godline&s;s,</HI> 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.7.8. &s;aith St. <HI>Paul.</HI></P>
<P>Likewi&s;e, <HI>Al&s;o the women that they adorn them|&s;elves in mode&s;t apparel, with &s;hame-facedne&s;s and &s;obriety; not with Broidred hair, or Gold, or Pearls, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or co&s;tly Array:</HI> Oh how contrary to this Bule,
<PB REF="5">do the Women of our times, walk by. Read th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> 16 of <HI>Ezekiel</HI> throughout, and <HI>Deut.</HI> 22. <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 5 to the end of the Chapter. And <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> 3.6. to th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> end. <HI>Tertullian</HI>'s coun&s;el to young Men and Wo+men is this, <HI>to cloath your &s;elves with the Silk of Piety and with the Sattin of Sanctity, and with the purp<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> of Mode&s;ty, &s;o &s;hall you have God for your Suitor.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;econd &s;in of youth, is <HI>unlawful plea&s;ure<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> hear what <HI>Solomon,</HI> the wi&s;eth of Men &s;aith, <HI>Re|joice O young man in thy Youth, and let th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> heart chear thee in the days of thy Youth, an<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> walk in the way of thine heart, and in the &s;ight o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> thine Eies, but remember for all the&s;e things Go<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> will bring thee to Judgement. Solomon</HI> doth no<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> comply with Youth, to encourage them to &s;in but by this way confutes them of their folly; A<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> much as to &s;ay thou mai&s;t if thou wilt take th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> plea&s;ure and ea&s;e, and &s;atisfie thy vain Appetite with all manner of plea&s;ures that this World wil<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> afford, but remember that bitterne&s;s will atten<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> thy plea&s;ures, God will bring to light thy deeds o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> darkne&s;s, tho&s;e &s;ins that thou ha&s;t committed i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;ecret; and bring thee to Judgement, where tho<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> mu&s;t give an account of every Idle word and wicked action, and then what will the&s;e plea&s;ure profit thee, the committing of which thou ha<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> lo&s;t Heaven and happine&s;s, and thy Immortal Soul<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> I have read of a young Man that was very muc<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> given to plea&s;ure, he &s;tanding by St. <HI>Ambro&s;e,</HI> an<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;eeing his mo&s;t excellent Death, turned to the o|ther
<PB REF="5">young men by him, and &s;aid; <HI>Oh that I might live with you, and die with him, again,</HI> There is a Cur&s;e of In&s;atiablene&s;s in the Creature, <HI>Eccl.</HI> 1.8. <HI>The Eye is not &s;atisfied with &s;eeing, nor the Ear with hearing.</HI> Plea&s;ure &s;aith one is a beauti|ful harlot, &s;itting in her Chariot, who&s;e wheels are pride, and gluttony, lu&s;t and Idlene&s;s: The two hor&s;es are, pro&s;perity and abundance: The two drivers, Idlene&s;s and &s;ecurity; her attendants are grief, guilt, and too late repentance, and death and Ruine. Many &s;trong Men have been de&s;troyed by her, but never any received full &s;atisfaction, and content in her; Therefore Oh young Men, avoid this harlot, come not near her door. St. <HI>Augu&s;tin</HI> before his Conver&s;ion, could not tell how to live without tho&s;e plea&s;ures which he much de|lighted in, but when his nature was changed, and his heart graciou&s;ly turned to God; <HI>Oh how &s;weet is it</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>to be without tho&s;e former &s;weet plea&s;ures.</HI> A truly enlightned &s;oul that hath ta&s;ted of the plea&s;ures that are in the enjoy|ment of Chri&s;t. Oh how bitter are all other plea&s;ures to him.</P>
<P>The third &s;in of Youth is Ra&s;hne&s;s, they &s;aith <HI>Ari&s;totle, know little, and fear le&s;s.</HI> St. <HI>Paul</HI> ex|horts young men to be &s;ober minded and di&s;creet, how many young men have had large E&s;tates, and by their Folly, Ra&s;hne&s;s, and Extravagancy have brought them&s;elves to poverty. Ra&s;hne&s;s unmans a man, and will put him upon things be|low
<PB REF="6">Man-hood; &s;hould I di&s;cover the many evils that attends <HI>ra&s;hne&s;s</HI> which u&s;ually Reigns in Youth, I &s;hould exceed my bounds, but let this &s;uffice, and let all young men decline and wholly for&s;ake it.</P>
<P>The fourth &s;in attending Youth is, mocking, and &s;coffing at: <HI>Religion,</HI> and tho&s;e that are holyer then them&s;elves, <HI>Job.</HI> 30.3, 4. <HI>But now,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>they that are younger then I have me in deri&s;ion;</HI> Doth not this Age abound with too many &s;coffers at Religion, I leave any indifferent Per&s;on to judge. The Athenians <HI>&s;coffing at</HI> Sila&s;es <HI>Wife, had like to have co&s;t the destruction of their City, her Husband was &s;o incen&s;ed again&s;t them;</HI> I am afraid that our Athie&s;my and &s;coffing at Religion and good Men, hath ruined our City. <HI>Felix</HI> for one mali|cious &s;coff, did nothing day and night but vomit blood, till his unhappy Soul was &s;eperated from his wretched body.</P>
<P><HI>Percides</HI> was con&s;umed of Worms alive for gi|ving Religion but a Nick-name, remember the&s;e Judgments, and if thou like&s;t them, mock on.</P>
<P>The Fifth &s;in attending Youth, is <HI>Lu&s;t,</HI> and Wantonne&s;s, which cau&s;ed St. <HI>Paul</HI> to admoni&s;h <HI>Timothy to flee youthful Lu&s;t,</HI> notwith&s;tanding <HI>Ti|mothy</HI> was a cha&s;t Youth, but St. <HI>Paul</HI> admoni&s;heth him, knowing the temptations that attend youth much more need have we to warn the youth o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> our days to flee the&s;e youthful Lu&s;ts, that &s;o un|man them and make them &s;o like to the&s;e bea&s;t
<PB REF="6">that peri&s;heth: Oh how do too many in this Nati|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n, in this City, in the&s;e Suburbs, in&s;tead of going <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> hear a Sermon on a Lords-day</HI> walk in the fields, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> lye in an Ale-hou&s;e or Tavern; Nay I am a|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">aid &s;ome, too many, go to the cur&s;ed <HI>Harlots</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ou&s;es, and there &s;pend their time, but &s;urely de|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">tructions will certainly attend &s;uch practices; <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he poor young Man that murthered his fellow <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ervant, <HI>Thomas Savage</HI> by name, confe&s;&s;ed that this <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">in of <HI>Whoredom</HI> and <HI>Sabbath-breaking,</HI> brought <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">im to the Gallows. Young Men take heed by <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">his &s;ad example now in time, lea&s;t God make thee <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he next, for great and grievous is this &s;in in the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">yes of God, and he will &s;everely puni&s;h it on all <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">uch as follow it, as we &s;ee daily that he hath done <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">on &s;everal per&s;ons.</P>
<P>Sixthly, Another grievous &s;in too much practi|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ed by Youth, and that is <HI>Swearing,</HI> how too <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ommon is it, in many places in City and Country, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y Men, Women, and Children, notwith&s;tanding <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he foulne&s;s, vilene&s;s, and wickedne&s;s of this &s;in, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd &s;o offen&s;ive to Almighty God.</P>
<P>Con&s;ider of it before it be too late, for how do&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hou know, <HI>O thou filthy Swearer and Bla&s;phemer <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> of Gods name in thy cur&s;ed and filthy oaths, when <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> hou art tearing Gods name in filthy Oaths, wi&s;h|ing God to damn thee?</HI> but he may take thee at thy word, and &s;end thee to Hell, there to abide to all Eternity, <HI>Mat.</HI> 12.34, <HI>Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth &s;peaketh,</HI> &s;o then, if thy words
<PB REF="7">are prophane thy heart is poluted, if it were a pure fountain, it would not bring forth &s;uch bitter &s;treams of filthine&s;s; thou did&s;t <HI>ble&s;s God</HI> in thy heart, thou would&s;t not bla&s;pheme with thy Ton|gue, <HI>Jam.</HI> 3.10. <HI>Oaths</HI> are nothing but <HI>badges</HI> of a <HI>vile and wicked Per&s;on,</HI> even &s;uch are the &s;cum of <HI>Ale-hou&s;es, Taverns, and filthy Pri&s;ons,</HI> an un&s;eemly evil in the mo&s;t <HI>notorious Villains, and high-way-men,</HI> much le&s;s in any that pretend to the lea&s;t &s;park of <HI>Grace;</HI> Remember that <HI>God will not hold them guilt|le&s;s that taketh his name in vain, Exod.</HI> 20. He that makes no con&s;cience of &s;mall <HI>Oaths</HI> will not &s;tick at great <HI>ones,</HI> but &s;ome may object and &s;ay I have been acu&s;tomed to <HI>&s;wear</HI> that I cannot leave it, <HI>Know</HI> this that if thou can&s;t not alter thy cu&s;tome by re|pentance, <HI>God</HI> can and will alter it by puni&s;hment; and therefore let all <HI>Men, Women</HI> and <HI>Children</HI> leave this &s;in as they tender the &s;alvation of their im|mortal Souls, and rebuke it boldly in all per&s;ons guilty of it.</P>
<P>Saith St. <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tom, youth is hard to be Ruled, ea&s;ily to be drawn away, apt to be deceived, and &s;tanding in need of very violent Rains.</HI> Saith <HI>Cor|nelius Alapide, The Antients did u&s;e to paint youth like a young man naked, with a vail over his face, his right hand bound behind him, and his left hand loo&s;e, and Time behind him pulling one thread out of his Vail every day, intimating that young men are void of knowledge and blind, and unfit to do good, ready to do evil, till time by little and little makes
<PB REF="7">them wi&s;er.</HI> Con&s;ider of this Oh young men, that the lea&s;t dram of Plea&s;ure will bring thee abundance of grief, and though thy paths &s;eems to be &s;trewed with Ro&s;ebuds of delight and plea&s;ure, yet bitter|ne&s;s will be the end. There is many other &s;ins that attend Youth, Ignorance, Fal&s;hood, Impatiency under reproof; a trifling &s;pirit, prodigality, drun|kenne&s;s, and taking Gods name in vain, which &s;ins I would intreat thee Oh young man to avoid, as thou tendere&s;t the good of thy immortal Soul, and as thou expecte&s;t heaven and happine&s;s for ever, leave and loath the&s;e Sins as thou woulde&s;t a Toad or Serpent. I &s;hall refer thee for thy further &s;ati&s;|faction to an excellent &s;heet Intituled, <HI>A Timely warning to Drunkards, Swearers, and Bla&s;phemers of Gods holy name, and other lewd livers.</HI></P>
<P>Again I &s;hall &s;peak a few words to <HI>young men.</HI> 1. As <HI>Child</HI> under tuition of thy <HI>Parents.</HI> 2. As <HI>Ap|prentice,</HI> under tuition of a <HI>Ma&s;ter.</HI> 1 As <HI>Child</HI> in the fir&s;t place, be deligent to &s;erve God, hear the word preached, read the Scriptures diligently &amp; o|ther good books, be &s;ure to pray to God morning &amp; evening according to the example of holy <HI>David,</HI> if thou can&s;t not pray, buy abook of godly prayers till God &s;hall inable thee to pray without book. Be&s;ure to reverence &amp; re&s;pect &amp; honor thy Parents with all dutifulne&s;s &amp; gentle behavior, as a child of God ought to do; I &s;hall not be large in this but refer the to an excellent &s;heet, named Mr. <HI>Baxter</HI>'s <HI>directions for family duties, containing the duty of Parents
<PB REF="8">to Children, Children to Parents, Ma&s;ters to Ser|vants, and Servants to Ma&s;ters.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2dly. A word to thee as an <HI>Apprentice</HI> or Ser|vant, fir&s;t be faithful and hone&s;t in that calling tha<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> God hath called thee to, giving re&s;pect to thy Ma&s;ter and Mi&s;tri&s;s, obey them in all their Lawfu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> commands; hear the advice of St. <HI>Paul, Servant<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> be obedient to your Ma&s;ters in &s;inglene&s;s of heart not with eye-&s;ervice but in &s;inglene&s;s of heart, Eph.</HI> 6. Avoiding all pilfering, and making away thy Ma&s;ters goods; Read the pattern of a good Ser|vant in that of <HI>Jo&s;eph, Gen.</HI> 39. he was &s;o ju&s;t that his Ma&s;ter committed all his Goods into his po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ion, and he mi&s;&s;ed nothing; afterward God rai&s;ed him up to be the &s;econd per&s;on in the King|dom.</P>
<P>I have read of an <HI>Italian</HI> Poet, who brings in a proper young man, Rich and Potentate, thus di&s;|cour&s;ing with Death in the habit of a mower with his &s;ith in his hand; cutting down the life of man (<HI>for all fle&s;h is gra&s;s,</HI> I&s;a. 40.) <HI>And will thou not &s;pare any Per&s;on</HI> &s;aith the young Man, <HI>I &s;pare none</HI> &s;aith Death, <HI>Mans life is but a Day, a &s;hort day, a Winters day, oftentimes the Sun goes down upon a Man before it be well up; your day is &s;hort, and your work is great, and your Journey is long; and therefore you &s;hould ri&s;e earlie and &s;et forwards to|wards Heaven betimes, as that Man doth that hath a long Journey to go on a Winters day;</HI> every days experience tells us that a young Mans life is as
<PB REF="8">much a vapour as the Old, and as much uncertain.</P>
<P>Again, young Men and young Women, if you would be really good, in the next place make &s;ure of your Conver&s;ion, for without Conver&s;ion, there is no Salvation; <HI>Except you be born again you cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, John.</HI> 3.3.</P>
<P>St. <HI>Au&s;tin's</HI> Conver&s;ion was on this wi&s;e. <HI>He heard a voice from Heaven, &s;aying, take up and Read,</HI> and in opening the New Te&s;tament, he fell upon the place of Romans 13.13, 14. <HI>Let us walk hone&s;tly as in the day, not in drunkenne&s;s, not in Chambering and wantonne&s;s, not in &s;trife and Envy, but put on the Lord Je&s;us; and make no pro|vi&s;ion for the fle&s;h to obey it in the Lu&s;t thereof.</HI> This Scripture &s;o worked upon him as it was the means of his Conver&s;ion. St. <HI>Cipron</HI> was converted by reading the fir&s;t Chapter of <HI>Jonah. Junus</HI> was converted by reading the fir&s;t Chapter of <HI>John</HI> the Evangeli&s;t.</P>
<P>I have read of <HI>Papriutius,</HI> that he converted two famous Strumpets, <HI>Thias</HI> and <HI>Ephron</HI> with this Scripture Argument, <HI>that God &s;eeth all things in the dark, when the doors are fa&s;t, the Windows &s;hut and the Curtains drawn.</HI></P>
<P>I have read of a poor Man that per&s;waded a young Scholar from reading Poetry, and to fall upon&punc; reading the Scriptures, which he did, and before he had read out <HI>Gene&s;is,</HI> it plea&s;ed God to work a change in his heart and turn him to the Lord, in the twentyeth year of his Age. Many
<PB REF="9">more examples might be produced to excite yo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> per&s;ons to the <HI>Study of the Scriptures;</HI> you do n<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> know but it may have the &s;ame Influence on th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> hard heart to &s;often it, and thy proud &s;pirits t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> humble them, and your &s;inful nature to chang the<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> and by the word and operation of the Spirit, Con|verted and &s;aved by them.</P>
<P><HI>Again,</HI> further con&s;ider Oh all young per&s;on<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> if in the &s;pring and morning of your days you d<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> not bring forth fruits to God, it is very much<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> you do ever, for death beds, and repentance is rare|ly true; <HI>For tho&s;e that &s;top their Ears to Gods ear<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> calls, he will &s;hut his Ears to their too late Prayer<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> It is a great honour to a man when he is old, tha<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> he can date his Conver&s;ion from the morning o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> his youth. It was <HI>Abraham</HI>'s honour that he die<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> in a good old age, &s;o St. <HI>Paul</HI> that he was aged i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> years and grace; And St. <HI>John</HI> had tho&s;e divin<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Revelations when he was Aged, in years and grace<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> I &s;ay that God doth make large di&s;coveries of him|&s;elf to aged Chri&s;tians. <HI>Policarpus</HI> could &s;ay whe<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> he was old, <HI>many years have I &s;erved my Master Chri&s;t, and hitherto he hath dealt well by me.</HI> By this you may &s;ee as in a gla&s;s plainly, the honour of being an old di&s;ciple of Chri&s;ts.</P>
<P>Let me exhort you Oh young men and young women, in the words of that Antient, faithful &s;er|vant of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, Mr. <HI>Thomas Brooks,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>As you love your precious Souls, and as you would e&s;cape Hell, and come to Heaven, and as you would
<PB REF="9">be happy in life and ble&s;&s;ed in death, and glorious after death; don't &s;pend any more of your precious time in drinking and drabbing, in Carding and Dicing, don't trifle away your time, don't Swear a|way your time, don't Whore away your time, don't Lye away your time, but begin to be good betimes be|cau&s;e time is a Talent that God will Reckon with you for.</HI></P>
<P>Again con&s;ider in the next place, Oh young men and women, how near you are to the great Ocean of Eternity, there is not a &s;tep you &s;tep, nor a breath you draw, nor a moment of time you live, but hath an influence of Eternity. Oh the Golden &s;ands will quickly be run out: Oh what a nothing is your life, but a &s;pan, a dream, a wind, a &s;haddow, a Po&s;t, &s;wifter then a Po&s;t, <HI>Job.</HI> 7.6. <HI>Remember you are all going to your long home to the hou&s;e of Eetrnity;</HI> yet man doth not di&s;cern how his precious time doth fly from him, as the &s;had|dow on a Diall pa&s;&s;eth on, from one hour to ano|ther, though its &s;peedy motion is not di&s;cerned, &s;o man pa&s;&s;eth from infancy to Child-hood, and from Child-hood to Youth, and from Youth to middle age, and &s;o to Old Age, and to the Grave, and how few is there that take notice of it, <HI>yea in a moment we go down to the Grave and &s;hall come up no more.</HI> How did the&s;e Meditations much trouble a <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> King, <HI>that having took a view of his va&s;t Army, wept to think that within an hundred years, not one man of them would be left alive.</HI></P>
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<P>Oh young men tremble to con&s;ider that you are on the very brink of death and Eternity, upon the border of Heaven, or the mouth of Hell, and as &s;oon as death hath &s;hut your eyes, you &s;hall &s;ee and know what you &s;hall be for ever: If thou art unconverted, mi&s;erable will be your condition, for you are almo&s;t within the dreadful noi&s;e of the Mil-&s;tone of Gods wrath, and the ratling of fire-Chains of the pri&s;oners of Hell: Oh dolerous out|cries and roaring of the damned in Hell, Crying out one and all, <HI>Oh what evil and grievous evil, bit|ter, bitter thing is &s;in; which we would not believe till we came to this di&s;mall place of torment.</HI> There you may hear tho&s;e Cur&s;ed tormented &s;inners, Crying out in the very angui&s;h of their Spirits, <HI>Oh when the Lord of glory was at the door knocking, we would not let him in, and now is Hells mouth &s;hut upon us for ever.</HI> There the filthy Swearer, Lyar, Bla&s;phemer of Gods Holy Name, that did tear and rend the name of their Creator, and &s;wear by the blood of their Redeemer are here with &s;corching Tongues, to bewail that they &s;hould take the name of God in vain, there the impu|dent and &s;wini&s;h Drunkards, that had too often with his plea&s;ant Cups, and &s;parkling Wine, and cur&s;ing Companions; here in the Agony of his Soul to wi&s;h that he had been &s;ober and tempe|rate, <HI>So that he might not have ta&s;ted the bitter Wine of Gods wrath, the dregs of which he is
<PB REF="10">made to drink for ever, P&s;al.</HI> 75.8. There the fil|thy Adulterers, and cur&s;ed Harlots, burning in their helli&s;h Lu&s;t; crying out, Oh that we had been cha&s;t, &s;ober, and mode&s;t, and that our eyes had been blind, and never had known the face of Man or Woman, &s;o we had e&s;caped the vengeance of Eternal fire. There ye &s;hall hear the vile <HI>A|thei&s;t</HI> wi&s;hing that he had believed the <HI>Mini&s;ters</HI> of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> but alas now it is too late. And like|wi&s;e the Worldling choaked with Silver and Gold. There the cowardly back-&s;lider in heart &s;hall wi&s;h that he had never known the ways of God, or that he had been faithful unto death.</P>
<P>But you that are the &s;ervants of God and mour|ners in <HI>Sion, lift up your Heads, for your Redemp|tion draweth nigh, and know that you are come with|in the bearing of the Heavenly Songs, Eternal Triumphs, and Hallelujah</HI>'s <HI>of the Saints and glo|rious Angels, in your Fathers hou&s;e, where there is fulne&s;s of joy and plea&s;ure for evermore,</HI> P&s;. 16.11.</P>
<P>St. <HI>Jerom</HI> u&s;ed to &s;ay, <HI>that whether I eat or drink, I hear the voice &s;ounding in my Ear, ari&s;e ye dead and come to Judgement.</HI></P>
<P>To conclude, oh let the thoughts of things to come, be much upon your &s;pirit, every night when thou goe&s;t to bed, and every Morning have &s;ome &s;erious thoughts of <HI>Death and Eternity;</HI> let it be by the pen of a Diamond, written on your hearts. Death that grim Porter will open the gates of glo|ry to every believer, and let them into their Fa|thers
<PB REF="11">hou&s;e. Who&s;o that is wi&s;e will ob&s;erve the&s;e things, he &s;hall &s;ee the &s;alvation of the Lord.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Which &s;hall be the Prayers of your Friend, I. C.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>I &s;hall in&s;ert &s;ome forms of Prayer for the benefit of &s;uch young Per&s;ons as &s;hall &s;tand in need of them.</TRAILER>
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<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer for Youth.</HEAD>
<P>O Eternal, mo&s;t great, mo&s;t gracious, and ever ble&s;&s;ed Lord God, thou art a great God and greatly to be feared and reverenced of all that draw nigh unto thee; thou art a Spirit, and thou wilt be wor&s;hipped in Spirit and in truth, for of &s;uch wor&s;hippers wilt thou be found, thus &s;eeking thee, we be&s;eech thee pour down upon our hearts the &s;pirit of &s;upplication and prayer &s;o as to &s;eek thee aright, and offer up an acceptable &s;ervice in and through the merits of our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour and Redeemer Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and through the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of thy Holy &s;pirit of truth, and let thy holy word be a Lanthorn unto my feet, and a light unto my paths, and to lead me in the ways of truth and holine&s;s, that I may attain unto everla&s;ting happi|ne&s;s, through the merits of my ble&s;&s;ed Saviour and Redeemer Chri&s;t Je&s;us. O Lord pardon my ma|nifold &s;ins and tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions, wherewith I have tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed again&s;t thee, O my God, in thought, word and deed, e&s;pecially the &s;ins and frailty of my Youth, O Lord they have been many and great, and by rea&s;on thereof I have merited thy wrath
<PB REF="11">and damnation; But O Lord, in the mid&s;t of Judg|ment remember mercy, and &s;pare me, &s;pare me O Lord God for thy loving kindne&s;s &s;ake in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, who hath &s;atisfied thy Ju&s;tice, and is ever ma|king Interce&s;&s;ion for me at the Throne of grace and mercy. I de&s;ire to ble&s;s and prai&s;e thy name O Lord God for all thy mercies and loving kindne&s;s to me and all Mankind, that thou ha&s;t pre&s;erved and kept me in my &s;leep from all manner of danger that might have befel me, and that thou ha&s;t prought me &s;afe to the beginning of this day, and I ble&s;s thy holy name for all the mercies that I have received from time to time from thee, be&s;eeching thee to give me grace to walk thankfully before thee, and to live to thy prai&s;e all the days of my life; I be&s;eech thee ble&s;s my young and tender years with the gifts and graces of thy holy Spirit, and to amend my life according to thy holy word, and to pa&s;s the time of my Sojournery here in thy fear, that I may dye in thy favour. I be&s;eech thee O my God to ble&s;s my Parents and Kindred, and all my Relations, and make me walk dutifully be|fore them as becomes a child of God; having thy fear before mine eyes, and thy &s;pirit directing my heart, that I may always do tho&s;e things that are well plea&s;ing in thy &s;ight, O Lord my &s;trength and my Redeemer, and make me thy true and faithful &s;ervant; teach me to love and to &s;erve thee O my ble&s;&s;ed Saviour and Redeemer, all the days of my life, that I may live in thy fear, and at la&s;t
<PB REF="12">dye in thy favour: Grant the&s;e my poor petit<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">|ons O Lord for the &s;ake of my ble&s;&s;ed Saviour a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Redeemer Je&s;us Chri&s;t, to whom be honou<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> prai&s;e, and glory, now and for evermore, Amen.</P>
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<HEAD>The Maid-&s;ervants Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>O Lord let thine hand-maid I pray thee &s;pea<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> in thine Audience, and hearken unto h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> when &s;he calleth upon thee, O de&s;pi&s;e not her lo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> E&s;tate, when &s;he offereth her &s;upplications unt<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> thee, but bow down thine ears to the hearty de|&s;ires of thy poor &s;ervant, teach me to ask arig<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> for &s;uch things that are requi&s;ite for me, both fo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Soul and body, and though thou ha&s;t ordaine<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> women to be the weaker Ve&s;&s;els, both in labou<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> of the body and endeavours of the mind; yet<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;trengthen me O my Lord that I may perfor<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> that labour whereunto I am called with ea&s;ine and Comfort; Oh enlighten my &s;oul with th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> divine in&s;piration, that I may do tho&s;e things th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> are well plea&s;ing in thy &s;ight, let me keep my r<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">|putation hone&s;t in the Eye of the World, know|ing that a good name is better then a pretio<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> oyntment, e&s;pecially in thy &s;ight let me be pur<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> hone&s;t and undefiled in this World, &s;o &s;hall I n<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> be a&s;hamed in the great day of my accompt, giv<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> me Cha&s;t and Religious thoughts, let not t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> wanton plea&s;ures of the fle&s;h drown in me the he<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">|venly trea&s;ures of the &s;pirit; Defend me fro<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">
<PB REF="12"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n, Sathan, and the Poi&s;on of evil Tongues, Make <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e faithful, wi&s;e, wary, tru&s;ty, and ju&s;t in tho&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ings committed to my charge by my Ma&s;ter and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">i&s;tres, Father and Mother. Grant me health of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">dy, quietne&s;s of mind, gentlene&s;s towards every <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">dy, put out of my heart all Pride, Envy, ha|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ed, and all uncharitablene&s;s, give me the &s;pirit of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ntentment in all conditions; and though I have <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">r Wealth and Dowry, as others have in the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">orld, yet I tru&s;t thou wilt give me the true ri|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">es, and let me rejoyce in that &s;tate thou ha&s;t pla|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d me, lending me thy directing hand, that the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">bours of this day may pro&s;per that I am to un|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ertake. Grant me grace that I may love, &s;erve, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">onour, and obey thee in holine&s;s and Righteou&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e&s;s all my days, that I may &s;erve thee for ever in <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e World to come; grant the&s;e my poor petiti|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ns, for the &s;ake of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, my Saviour and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">edeemer. Amen.</P>
<CLOSER>Our Father,</CLOSER>
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