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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. Accustom thy self to a daily and continual meditation of Gods all-seeing and all-ruling Providence; how nothing ⟨p. 73⟩cometh to pass, or falls out without it. So that whensoever any occasion is offered, which might provoke thee to anger, consider with thy self, that this comes not without the special Providence of God, who will turn it to thy good, if thou belongest unto him; according to that gracious promise, Rom. 8. 2•. All things shall work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Look up unto God, and be not like the Dog to snarl at the stone, never considering the flinger. David had provocation enough from Shimei's cursing him, to make him angry, and boil up his passion to the height; but he looked up to God, and saw his hand at Shimei's tongues end: whereupon he said, Let him Curse, for the Lord hath bidden him, 2 Sam. 16. 11. And this quieted his heart against the revilings of Shimei. Oh what a cooler of inordinate passion would it be in Christians, to see the Hand of Gods Providence in all the injuries and indignities, in all the wrongs and unworthy usages that they here meet withal!
2. Accustome thy self to a daily and continual meditation of Gods all-seeing and all-ruling Providence; how nothing ⟨p. 73⟩cometh to pass, or falls out without it. So that whensoever any occasion is offered, which might provoke thee to anger, consider with thy self, that this comes not without the special Providence of God, who will turn it to thy good, if thou belongest unto him; according to that gracious promise, Rom. 8. 2•. All things shall work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Look up unto God, and be not like the Dog to snarl at the stone, never considering the flinger. David had provocation enough from Shimei's cursing him, to make him angry, and boil up his passion to the height; but he looked up to God, and saw his hand at Shimei's tongues end: whereupon he said, Let him Curse, for the Lord hath bidden him,