Things that young people should think upon. Or, The death of young people improved,…

Ever now and then, our Young men are Drowned, perhaps by Two or Three at a Time, or by Falls, or Shot, or some other Quick Mischief, they are hurried away into the Land of Darkness. Now when two Young men were killed with a Sudden Death, in Israel, it was Enjoined, in Lev. 10.6. Let the whole House of Israel bewail it. Even so, since there have been so many Young men, detached from us by a Sudden Death ▪ I must call upon you all, to Bewail it before the Lord.

Ever now and then, our Young men are Drown'd, perhaps by Two or Three at a Time, or by Falls, or Shot, or some other Quick Mischief, they are hurried away into the Land of Darkness. Now when two Young men were kill'd with a Sudden Death, in Israel, it was Enjoyned, in Lev. 10.6. Let the whole House of Israel bewayl it. Even so, since there have been so many Young men, detach'd from us by a Sudden Death ▪ I must call upon you all, to Bewayl it before the Lord.

II. Are the Young men Dead? Let All People, especially let Young People, consider, How Soon, [they know not, How Soon!] the Time of their Death may overtake them. The Death of Young men, has a Voice to All men; especially ⟨p. 13⟩if it be a Sudden Death, 'tis then a Speaking Death: And the language of it, is that in Pro. 27.1. Boast not thy self of To morrow, for thou knowest not, what a Day may bring forth. Sirs, the Sudden Death of young men, does naturally Lead us to this Consideration; That ordinarily there is not any man, who doth on any Day infallibly know what shall on that very Day befall him. [Nescis quid serus vesper vebat.] Where is the man, that when he Rises in a morning, may presume to say I shall Out live this Day, or, This Day shall not be my Last! It was said by the Wise man, (and every Wise man will often think of it!) in Eccl 9.12. Man knoweth not his Time; as the Fishes are taken in an Evil Net, and as the Birds that are caught in the Snare, so are the Sons of men snared in an Evil Time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. Time here means, the Changes that are in Time to come upon us. 'Tis ordinarily so; The most knowing of Mortals, may every Day say, I don't know what Changes are this Day to come upon me. The Nets, the Snares, of Disasters are, for ought we know continually Spread for us: and silly Creatures that we are, we know not when we shall fall into them. No Day does ordinarily arrive to any man, but for ought he knows, That very Day may bring forth his Death unto him. He was an Old man, that said, in