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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.
6. Be earnest with God in prayer, that he would mortify and subdue all thy earthly affections, especially this corrupt and violent affection of Anger. This thou shouldst do, as at all times, so especially when thou discoverest the passion of Anger begin to boil up in thee.
6. Be earnest with God in prayer, that he would mortifie and subdue all thy earthly affections, especially this corrupt and violent affection of Anger. This thou shouldst do, as at all times, so especially when thou discoverest the passion of Anger begin to boil up in thee.
Having showed you the Remedies for the preventing of Anger;
Having shewed you the Remedies for the preventing of Anger;
I shall now show the Remedies for the suppressing thereof.
I shall now shew the Remedies for the suppressing thereof.
1. Keep down the first rising of Anger. Thou must give this water of bitterness no passage, no not a little, least like that in Ezekiel, it grow from Ankle deep, to Knee deep, and from thence to the Thighs; and so at last prove a River that cannot be passed over without drowning. To this purpose tendeth that of the Apostle (