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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 7: Containing two main Arguments to Conversion.
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Why now sinner consider, Godliness is the great profit. It's profitable to all things, 1 Tim. 4. 8. There's nothing truly profitable besides. Sinners count that Godliness is good for nothing unless to make men proud and conceited. Fools cry out with those, Job. 21. 15. What is the Almighty that we should serve him, and what profit shall we have, if we pray unto him? They count that this is the only thing, that stands in the way of their profit, their great hindrance in the world: they think they might get more, and thrive better, if it were not for this Godliness, this Conscience hath been many a mans undoing. How many a man is there, that hath lost a good living, because he would keep a good Conscience? If it were not for this Conscience, men might get, not only by honesty, but by fraud, or by violence; lying or false▪swearing, might then bring them in many a penny, but Conscience pares off all that gain.
Why now sinner consider, Godliness is the great profit. It's profitable to all things, 1 Tim. 4. 8. There's nothing truely profitable besides. Sinners count that Godliness is good for nothing unless to make men proud and conceited. Fools cry out with those, Job. 21. 15. What is the Almighty that we should serve him, and what profit shall we have, if we pray unto him? They count that this is the onely thing, that stands in the way of their profit, their great hindrance in the world: they think they might get more, and thrive better, if it were not for this Godliness, this Conscience hath been many a mans undoing. How many a man is there, that hath lost a good living, because he would keep a good Conscience? If it were not for this Conscience, men might get, not only by honesty, but by fraud, or by violence; lying or false▪swearing, might then bring them in many a penny, but Conscience pares off all that gain.