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id: A96183
author: Wells, Mary, fl. 1684.
date: 1684.0
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title:
  A divine poem written by Mary Wells, who recommends it as a fit token for all young men and maids, instead of profane songs and ballads

summary:
  BOw down thine ear unto me , Lord , Have mercy on my soul , Subdue my Spiritual Enemies , And all my lusts controul . LIft up my heart unto thee , Lord , Unto a thankful frame ; And let me ever honour thee , And praise thee for the same .


id: A50294
author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
title: Machiavil's advice to his son newly translated out of Italian into English verse by R. L., Esq.
date: 1681.0
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words: 3866
sentence: 168
flesch: 81
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summary:
  And if thou be a Courtier , know thy Place ; But do not starve for only show of Grace : But let thy Profit answer thy Expence , Lest VVant do prove a woful Patience : And thou do prove the Proverb often told , A careless Courtier young , a Beggar old .


id: A10362
author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
title: Sir Walter Raleighs instructions to his sonne and to posterity
date: 1632.0
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words: 5847
sentence: 146
flesch: 57
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summary:
  I would not have you for any respect loose your reputation , or endure publike disgrace ; for better it were not to live then to live a coward , if the offence proceed not from thy selfe , if it bee it shall bee better to compound it upon good termes , then to hazard thy selfe , for if thou overcome , thou art under the crueltie of the Law , if thou be overcome thou art dead , or dishonoured ; If thou therefore contend , or discourse in argument , let it bee with Wise and sober Men , of which thou mayest learne by reasoning , and not with ignorant persons , for thou shalt thereby instruct those : that will not thanke thee , and utter what they have learned from thee , but if thou know more then other Men , utter it when it may doe thee honour , and not in assemblies of ignorant , & common persons : The third is , that thou suffer not thy selfe to be wounded for other Mens faults , and scourged for other Mens offences , which is , to bee suerty for another , for thereby millions of Men have beene beggered and destroyed , paying the reckoning of other Mens ryot , and the charge of other Mens folly , and prodigality ; if thou smart for thy owne sin , the paine is endured with some ease , and above all things bee not made an Asse to carry the burden of other Men ; If thy friend desire thee to bee his suretie , give him a part of what thou hast to spare , if hee presse thee farther , hee is not thy friend at all , for friendship rather chooseth harme to it selfe then offereth it , if thou be bound for a stranger , thou art a foole , if for a Marchant , thou puttest thy estate to learne to swimme ; If for a Churchman , he hath no inheritance ; if for a Lawyer , hee will find an evasion by a syllable , or word to abuse thee ; if for a poore Man thou must pay it thy selfe , therefore from Suretiship as from a Man-slayer , or enchanter for the best profit , and returne will bee this , that if thou force him for whom thou art bound to pay it himselfe , hee wil become thy enemie , if thou use to pay it thy selfe , thou wilt be a begger , and beleeve thy Father in this , and print it in thy thoughts , that what vertue soever thou hast , bee it never so manifold , if thou be poore withall , thou , and thy qualities shall be despised ; besides , Poverty is ofttimes sent as a curse of God it is a chaine amongst Men , an imprisonment of the mind , a vexation of everie worthy spirit ; thou shalt neyther helpe thy selfe nor others , thou shalt drowne in thee all thy vertues , having no meanes to shew them , thou shalt bee a burthen , and Eye-sore of all thy friends , everie Man will scorne thy Company , thou shalt bee driven basely to begge , and depend on others , to flatter unworthy Men , to make dishonest shifts ; and to conclude , poverty provokes a Man to doe infamous and detested deedes ; Let no vanitie therefore , or perswasion draw thee to that worst of worldly miseries , if thou be rich , it will give thee pleasure in health , comfort in sicknesse ,


id: A44186
author: Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676.
date: 1685.0
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words: 8352
sentence: 206
flesch: 54
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title:
  The father's new-years-gift to his son containing divers useful and necessary directions how to order himself both in respect to this life and that which is to come / written by the Right Honourable Sir Matthew Hale ; whereunto is added, divine poems upon Christmas-day.

summary:
  But also when Sickness and Death comes and God calls upon thee to give up the account of thy Stewardship , will perplex thy thoughts , and fill thy soul with confusion , when thou shalt find that thy work is not half done , or it may be , not at all began , and yet thy day is spent , thy night approaching , and thy lamp just ready to expire , so that what thou dost then will be with abundance of trouble , perplexity , and vexation and peradventure , after all thy soul will take its flight before thou hast brought it to any perfection . Secondly , As to the management of your own Speech , 1. Let it be always true ; never speak any thing for a truth , which you know to be false , because that is a great sin against God , who gave you your Tongue to speak your mind with , and not to report a lye .


id: A64977
author: Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678.
date: 1672.0
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words: 9415
sentence: 226
flesch: 59
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title:
  The best gift, or God's call upon young men for their hearts Delivered in a sermon to young men. By Thomas Vincent, minister sometime of Maudlins Milkstreet, London.

summary:
  Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart , and all thy soul , and all thy mind : this is the first and great commandment . Some of you have nothing of your own , which you can give unto men , without wronging your Masters , or your Parents ; but all of you have hearts of your own , which you may give to God , and which you cannot keep from him , without wronging him , and wronging your selves too .


id: A90197
author: Osborne, Francis, 1593-1659.
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mime: application/xml
words: 25087
sentence: 799
flesch: 60
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title:
  Advice to a son; or Directions for your better conduct through the various and most important encounters of this life. Vnder these generall heads I. Studies &c. II. Love and marriage. III. Travell. IV. Government. V. Religion. Conclusion.

summary:
  eng Young men -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800. And in regard of Time , none can be more opportune then this , in which men carry breasts of steele against those of their own Profession ( some niceties excepted ) under the imperious pretence of Religion .


id: A64999
author: Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678.
date: 1668.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 33855
sentence: 976
flesch: 66
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title:
  Words of advice to young men delivered in two sermons at two conventions of young men, the one Decemb. 25, 1666, the other Decemb. 25, 1667 / by Thomas Vincent ...

summary:
  Sin in its own nature is so black and odious , that if your eyes were but opened to see what dishonour it reflecteth upon the pure and holy God , and how it defileth your own Souls once made after the image of God ; you could not choose but loath and abhorr it , and with hatred you would flye from it as from a Pestilential disease , or venemous Serpent , and no arguments would perswade you to commit it , or give it any room or harbour in your hearts ; therefore the wicked one doth use the greatest art and cunning to paint and colour over sin with fair glosses , that the monstrous nature and deadly poyson of it might be hid from your eyes and knowledge . First , they enquire who will shew us the chief good ? We see that the Creatures cannot yield us satisfaction , we cannot finde any perfect and compleat happiness upon the Earth , where shall we finde it ? And being informed by the Word and Ordinances that God is the chief good , that his favour is better than life , and that in his righteousness there is the beginning of true happiness , and in his Kingdom there is perfection of happiness ; that in his presence there is fulness and eternity of joy and blessedness , and that whilest they remain under the guilt and power of sin , they are under the Curse ; and before they obtain his righteousness , and a title to his Kingdom , they are in a lost estate , their condition for the present is miserable , and they are exposed every moment to be thrown into the dark and deep dungeon of Hell , where they shall be most horribly and eternally tormented ; they further ( being convinced of sin , and awakened with the fear of punishment ) earnestly enquire how they may be delivered from the estate of sin and misery , and be brought into a state of salvation ; as the Jaylour , Act. 16.


id: A26903
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1681.0
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words: 43828
sentence: 1711
flesch: 72
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title:
  Compassionate counsel to all young men especially I. London apprentices, II. students of divinity, physick, and law, III. the sons of magistrates and rich men / by Richard Baxter.

summary:
  For instance , 1. Some are so corrupted with the Love of sport , that gaming or Stage-plays , or one such foolery or another , becometh so pleasant to them , that they can understand or believe nothing that is said against it by God or man ; their diseased Phantasie hath so conquered reason , that they cannot restrain themselves ; but in their callings and in religious Exercises they are weary , and long to be at their sports , and must be gone ; neither God , nor Holiness , nor the Joys of Heaven are half so sweet to their thoughts as these are : And if a mans Sickness , Pain , or Distraction be a Calamity , the cure of which brings ease and joy ; How much more ease and joy may it bring , to be cured from all the grievous Maladies of reigning sin ? Sanctification will cure your minds of spiritual blindness and madness , that is , of damnable Ignorance , Unbelief , and Error : It will cure your affections of idolatrous , distracting , carnal Love ; of the itch of fleshly Desires or Lusts ; of the feaver of revengeful passions , and malignant hatred to goodness and good men ; and of self vexing envy and malice against others ; of the greedy worm of Covetousness , and the drunken desire of ambitious and imperious minds : It will cure your Wills of their fleshly servitude and biass , and of that mortal Backwardness to God and holy things , and that sluggish dulness and lothness to choose and do what you are convinced must be done : It will make good things easie and pleasant to you ; so that you will no more think you have need to beg mirth from the Devil , or steal it from sin , as if God , Grace and Glory had none for you :


id: A02360
author: Guild, William, 1586-1657.
date: 1608.0
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words: 47989
sentence: 983
flesch: 49
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title:
  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.

summary:
  Which desiring to auoide , and to institute his life and waies according to the law of God , that so hee might haue Gods loue more encreased towards him to encounter the vniust hatred of man , and his strength more confirmed in his heart , to ouercome the manifold temptations of fraile youth . The other signification of this Letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Beth , is Domus ; a house ( whose figure it representeth ) and so the reason is thus , that whosoeuer would bee counted as one of Gods house , and so bee saued ; As God ( the Master of the house ) is pure and cleane ; his house and seruants cleane likewise : so thou who would adioyne thy selfe in thy youth to their societie , and eate at his table : thou must be cleane also ; Cleansing thy waies according to his word : putting on that white cleane robe of the righteousnesse of Iesus Christ , that wedding garment , & seruing him in his Family , in purity & holinesse of life , by obseruing these doctrines which are here set down in this section to doe the same .


id: A41668
author: Gouge, Thomas, 1605-1681.
date: 1676.0
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words: 63028
sentence: 2518
flesch: 74
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title:
  The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan shewing him how to carry himself Christian-like in the whole course of his life / by Tho. Gouge ...

summary:
  4. Rejoyce O young man in thy youth , and walk in the wayes of thine heart , and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou , that for all these things , God will bring thee into Iudgement . As if he had said , since thou art so set upon it to have thy will , and thy way , to suck the sweet , and make the best of what is before thee , take thy course , take thy fill of thy pleasure , ease , and hearts-content whilest thou livest : but remember what comes after , and know that for all thy sweet morsels , and pleasant draughts , for all thy pleasant sins , and youthful liberties , and those vain , and wicked courses , wherein thou now takest such content and delight , God will bring thee into judgement : die thou must , thou knowest not how soon , and after death thou shalt be brought before Gods Tribunal , there to answer for all that thou hast done , and receive a just recompence of reward .


id: A67252
author: Walker, Obadiah, 1616-1699.
title: Of education, especially of young gentlemen in two parts, the second impression with additions.
date: 1673.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 80067
sentence: 3359
flesch: 65
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summary:
  eng Young men -- Education -- Early works to 1800. The most useful knowledg is that , of a mans self : and this depends upon that more universal consideration of , Quid homo potest ; naturally , and artificially : i. e. what abilities are in us originally , by the gift of God ; and what attainable by our own industry .


