The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…

Thy Creator.] From whom thou hadst thy being, and well-being, thy Creation and Preservation, and therefore owest thy self, and service unto him. As thou art from God, so thou oughtest to love and live unto him: he made thee this living soul after his own image, and thereby as thou art more capable, so art thou the more obliged unto him; and that

Thy Creatour.] From whom thou hadst thy being, and well-being, thy Creation and Preservation, and therefore owest thy self, and service unto him. As thou art from God, so thou oughtest to love and live unto him: he made thee this living soul after his own image, and thereby as thou art more capable, so art thou the more obliged unto him; and that

Now in the days of thy Youth (Which is the prime of thy time, the flower of thine age, the strength of thy life, when thou art able to do him the best service. God will be served with the best of all thy strength, and will not be put off till thy strength be gone: therefore now in the flower of thy youth give up thy self unto him.

Now in the dayes of thy Youth (Which is the prime of thy time, the flowre of thine age, the strength of thy life, when thou art able to do him the best service. God will be served with the best of all thy strength, and will not be put off till thy strength be gone: therefore now in the flowre of thy youth give up thy self unto him.

While the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them. That is before old age seizeth on thee, which will be full of pains and sorrows, so that thou canst take no delight in any thing, neither canst thou find any desire or strength for service. Here the days of old age are called evil, because men are then subject to manifold infirmities, and afflictions, as if he had said, seeing the Elder days are like to be evil days, full of pains and griefs, be sure thou do not add thereunto the bitterness of thy youthful lusts, and pleasures, and the burden of those duties which should have been the business of thy youth. Shall the sins, and the works of an whole age be laid upon thie aged Shoulders? what an intolerable burden will that be to thee? who wilt find it hard enough for thee to bear up under thy diseases, and infirmities. Be doing rather now in the days of thy youth, lay up against the time to come, be aforehand with thy necessary work, get to be rich in grease, abundant in good works, serving the Lord in holiness and righteousness all the days of thy life; which may comfort thine heart against the evils of thine old age, that so it may not be unto