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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. It is our coming back from unbelief, to faith in God. Every Convert is become a Believer. The unconverted World are all concluded in unbelief, Rom. 11. 32. In Conversion we are fetched out from that wretched multitude of unbelievers: Converts and Believers signify the same persons in Scripture-sense.
1. It is our coming back from unbelief, to faith in God. Every Convert is become a Believer. The unconverted World are all concluded in unbelief, Rom. 11. 32. In Conversion we are fetched out from that wretched multitude of unbelievers: Converts and Believers signifie the same persons in Scripture-sense.
This faith we are converted to, comprehends in it three things.
1. Our sealing to the truth of God. 2. Our adventuring upon the truth of God. 3. Our resigning our selves to the government of the truth.
1. Faith is our sealing to the truth of God, or our belief of the truth of the Word of God,