Sermons Upon Various Subjects, Preached to Young People on New Years Days; By David Jennings (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1730. Excerpt: ... SERMON IL The young sinner convinc'd; or, the e--vil and danger of youthful sins. Job xiii. 26. For thou ivritefi bitter things againjl me, and makeji me to pojjefs the iniquities of my youth. H E sins and follies of youth are gene I rally made very light of; to fay of the vilest action, it was a trick of youth, palliates the matter and almost excuses it: thus it is in the common account of men, but if we look into the word of God (that book according to which old and young shall be judged another day) we shall sind the sins of youth quite otherwise rated there. There young men are exhorted to be sober minded, and warned to fly youthful lufts, as most dangerous and destructive to their souls. We sind that David had'a very humbling fense of his youthful sins, from his prayer for the pardon of them, Psalm xxv. 7. Remember not the fins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to thy mercy remember thou me, for thy goodness fake O Lord. We find Solomon also., in his Ecclefiastes, bitterly lamenting his youthful faults and frolicks. And Job lets us know, in the text, how grievous the remembrance of his youthful iniquities Was to him: these were sins which ne had committed long ago, but he had not done with them yet; for a humbling and afflicting fense of their guilt stuck fast to his foul, now in his advanced years, and pierc'd him thro' with many sorrows. These were the bitter, things which he speaks of in the former part 'of the text, Thou writ est bitter things against me. The latter clause explains the former, and declares what these bitter things zvere, viz. the iniquities of his youth. God's writing bitter thjngs against him signifies his charging him with the guilt of those sins; and so the words are-very expressive of Job's distress land fear, les...