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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
THE Young Man's Guide. › Chapter 6: Containeth Directions suitable to Young Men.
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.
1. Learn some good and sound Catechism. If thou canst not get it by heart, then read it over again, and again. Thou mayst read and hear much, and yet never attain to a well-grounded knowledge in Religion, till thou beest well instructed in the Principles of it. This the Apostles well knew; therefore they delivered to their several Churches a Form of Doctrine, which contained the Fundamental Principles of Religion, which every Member thereof was perfectly to learn, Rom. 6. 17. 2 Tim. 1. 13. Heb. 5. 12. and 6. 1. Whosoever shall think to attain unto any sound knowledge in Religion, merely by hearing the Word preached, before he be well grounded in the Principles thereof, will find it a ⟨p. 37⟩hard work, and understand by his experience how necessary the laying a good Foundation is to his building up in Faith and Holiness.
1. Learn some good and sound Catechism. If thou canst not get it by heart, then read it over again, and again. Thou mayst read and hear much, and yet never attain to a well-grounded knowledge in Religion, till thou beest well instructed in the Principles of it. This the Apostles well knew; therefore they delivered to their several Churches a Form of Doctrine, which contained the Fundamental Principles of Religion, which every Member thereof was perfectly to learn, Rom. 6. 17. 2 Tim. 1. 13. Heb. 5. 12. and 6. 1. Whosoever shall think to attain unto any sound knowledge in Religion, meerly by hearing the Word preached, before he be well grounded in the Principles thereof, will find it a ⟨p. 37⟩hard work, and understand by his experience how necessary the laying a good Foundation is to his building up in Faith and Holiness.