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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
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.
2. Worldly riches are uncertain, they make to themselves wings, and fly away, Prov. 23. 5. Sure it is, that within a short time, either they will be taken from us, or we from them; either they will leave us, or we must leave them. Yea they are such slippery ware, that the harder we grasp them, the sooner they will slip out of our hands.
2. Worldly riches are uncertain, they make to themselves wings, and fly away, Prov. 23. 5. Sure it is, that within a short time, either they will be taken from us, or we from them; either they will leave us, or we must leave them. Yea they are such slippery ware, that the harder we graspe them, the sooner they will slip out of our hands.
Whereas Grace is a blossom of Eternity, which will abide with us for ever. It doth not only continue with us so long as we live here, but it endureth with us to all Eternity, therefore called durable riches, Prov. 8. 18.
Whereas Grace is a blossome of Eternity, which will abide with us for ever. It doth not only continue with us so long as we live here, but it endureth with us to all Eternity, therefore called durable riches, Prov. 8. 18.
I know some tell us of falling away from Grace. True it is, a Christian may lose,