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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.
9. Thou who sayest thou hast time enough before thee, and thereupon yet a while longer wilt venture after the Devil, suppose thou shouldst at the latter end of thy life turn from thy sins unto God, which, as I showed before, is not ordinary, yet must it needs be matter of grief and sorrow to thee, then to call to mind, how thou hast spent the strength of thy Youth, the best of thy days in the service of sin and Satan; and now hast little time, and less strength remaining for God, and his service. Surely this will be matter of great shame and sorrow unto thy Soul: And therefore as thou tenderest the honour of God, and thine own eternal happiness, now stir up in thy self a longing desire after the work of Grace in thy Soul, and put thy self upon a present and serious use of the means: delay not a day longer, lest that delay be unto death.
9. Thou who sayest thou hast time enough before thee, and thereupon yet a while longer wilt venture after the Devil, suppose thou shouldst at the latter end of thy life turn from thy sins unto God, which, as I shewed before, is not ordinary, yet must it needs be matter of grief and sorrow to thee, then to call to mind, how thou hast spent the strength of thy Youth, the best of thy days in the service of sin and Satan; and now hast little time, and less strength remaining for God, and his service. Surely this will be matter of great shame and sorrow unto thy Soul: And therefore as thou tenderest the honour of God, and thine own eternal happiness, now stir up in thy self a longing desire after the work of Grace in thy Soul, and put thy self upon a present and serious use of the means: delay not a day longer, lest that delay be unto death.
10. Thou who still goest on impenitently in thy wicked course of life, consider how sad and dreadful thy condition is, so long as thou continuest therein.
1. Thou art under the guilt of sin. All the sins that ever thou committedst are yet on thy score, none of them are blotted out. Surely, if one sin laid to the charge of a sinner is enough to sink him irrecoverably into Perdition; Oh then how sad is thy condition, who liest under the guilt of many millions of sins, clothed with many aggravating circumstances!