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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.
As Esau wasted his strength by overmuch Hunting, and by his too greedy desire of Jacob's red Pottage, lost his Birth-right, Gen. 27. 29. so mayst thou by an overeager hunting after Wealth, waste the strength of thy body, and endanger thine Heavenly Inheritance. It will be therefore thy wisdom so to mind and follow after things Temporal, that thou mayst not lose, no nor abate thy care of things Eternal.
As Esau wasted his strength by overmuch Hunting, and by his too greedy desire of Iacob's red Pottage, lost his Birth-right, Gen. 27. 29. so mayst thou by an overeager hunting after Wealth, waste the strength of thy body, and indanger thine Heavenly Inheritance. It will be therefore thy wisdom so to mind and follow after things Temporal, that thou mayst not lose, no nor abate thy care of things Eternal.
I deny not but the World may and must be minded by thee, but still in its place, secondarily, and subordinately. What is the World to thy Soul? What is Bread, or Clothes, or Money, or an House, or Lands, to the Everlasting Kingdom? Let that word be still in thine ears, and upon thine heart, whatever thou art about: First seek the Kingdom of God. First, that is, not only before all things, but chiefly, and above all things: seek the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness; let thine heart be ever more intent upon God, than upon all things in the world besides.
I deny not but the World may and must be minded by thee, but still in its place, secondarily, and subordinately. What is the World to thy Soul? What is Bread, or Cloaths, or Money, or an House, or Lands, to the Everlasting Kingdom? Let that word be still in thine ears, and upon thine heart, whatever thou art about: First seek the Kingdom of God. First, that is, not only before all things, but chiefly, and above all things: seek the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness; let thine heart be ever more intent upon God, than upon all things in the world besides.