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The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…
The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan showing him how to carry himself Christian-like in the whole course of his life / by Tho. Gouge ...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 ...
London: printed by S. and B.G. for Nevil Simmons, 1676
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If thou put him off till hereafter, and thereby quench the motions of his Spirit, how justly may he for ever reject thee!
3. Thou who upon a pretence of having time enough before thee, dost procrastinate and delay to look after God and Heaven; consider as the weightiness, so the multitude of works to be done by thee, in order to thy Salvation. Hast thou not a dead Soul to be quickened? a dark understanding to be enlightened with the knowledge of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ? an hard heart to be softened? a proud heart to be humbled? an unclean heart to be purified and cleansed? a multitude of head-strong lusts to be mortified, and subdued? manifold temptations to be resisted, and conquered? Hast thou all these, and many more things to do, in reference to thy future happiness, and yet wilt thou trifle away thy precious time in vanity, and pleasure; yea in sin, and wickedness, saying, thou hast time enough before thee? Know, that the forementioned works are enough to take up thy whole life; How then canst thou imagine, that the ⟨p. 26⟩short remaining part thereof should be sufficient for them.
3. Thou who upon a pretence of having time enough before thee, dost procrastinate and delay to look after God and Heaven; consider as the weightiness, so the multitude of works to be done by thee, in order to thy Salvation. Hast thou not a dead Soul to be quickned? a dark understanding to be enlightned with the knowledge of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ? an hard heart to be softned? a proud heart to be humbled? an unclean heart to be purified and cleansed? a multitude of head-strong lusts to be mortified, and subdued? manifold temptations to be resisted, and conquered? Hast thou all these, and many more things to do, in reference to thy future happiness, and yet wilt thou trifle away thy precious time in vanity, and pleasure; yea in sin, and wickedness, saying, thou hast time enough before thee? Know, that the forementioned works are enough to take up thy whole life; How then canst thou imagine, that the ⟨p. 26⟩