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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. Faith is our sealing to the truth of God, or our belief of the truth of the Word of God, Joh. 3. 33. He that believeth hath set to his Seal, that God is true. It is our belief of the truth of the Scriptures in general, and in special of the truth of the Gospel. It is our sealing to Christ, or our believing that he is the Messiah of God, and the Saviour of the world; that this is the Stone that is laid in Zion, on whom whosoever believeth shall not be confounded, 1 Pet. 2. 6. that in him there is Salvation, and none other, Act. 4. 12.
1. Faith is our sealing to the truth of God, or our belief of the truth of the Word of God, Ioh. 3. 33. He that believeth hath set to his Seal, that God is true. It is our belief of the truth of the Scriptures in general, and in special of the truth of the Gospel. It is our sealing to Christ, or our believing that he is the Messiah of God, and the Saviour of the world; that this is the Stone that is laid in Sion, on whom whosoever believeth shall not be confounded, 1 Pet. 2. 6. that in him there is Salvation, and none other, Act. 4. 12.
2. Faith is our adventuring upon the truth of God, an adventuring our lives, an adventuring our Souls upon the truth of the Word of God, and upon that Jesus concerning whom this Word bears witness. Faith is an adventuring for the other world. The object of Faith are things not seen, Heb. 11. 1. that is, the invisible world. The Scripture tells us of another stare, a more blessed and glorious state than that we here are in: this blessed state is in the other world, which however it cannot now be seen, yet Faith hath such evidence that there is such a state, that it will adventure for it.