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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.
II. Return to the Lord: Repent, and be converted to God. Conversion being so great and necessary a duty, and so especially included in that remembering of our Creator required in the Text, I shall insist a little the more distinctly upon it; and shall,
II. Return to the Lord: Repent, and be converted to God. Conversion being so great and necessary a duty, and so especially included in that remembring of our Creator required in the Text, I shall insist a little the more distinctly upon it; and shall,
1. Open the nature of it. 2. Press thee to it.
1. For the nature of Conversion, it is a turning, or coming back to the Lord. Sin is our departing, or going away from God: Impenitence in sin is our keeping away from him. Conversion is our return, or coming back to God. It is our coming back,
1. From unbelief, to faith in God. 2. From our enmity and rebellion, unto friendship and obedience to God.