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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.
Arise Sleeper, the Lord is coming; thy day is near, the next fit of Drunkenness may be the night wherein the Judge will come. Do not put it off thus; I do not think so, I believe he will not come yet; he is the more like to come for that, that thou thinkest he will not. That wicked servant, Luk. 12. 45. that said, My Lord delayeth his coming, and did eat and drink, and was Drunken: The Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware. Thou thinkest not that Death will meet thee, that Judgment will meet thee the next time thou art Drunken. But what if it should be so, if thou shouldst be snatched from the Ale-bench, and brought to Judgment? how wouldst thou give an account of thy self to God, when thou hast not reason enough left thee to give an answer to a man. Watch therefore, but that can never be, unless thou wilt first awake from thy Drunkenness.
Arise Sleeper, the Lord is coming; thy day is near, the next fit of Drunkenness may be the night wherein the Judge will come. Do not put it off thus; I do not think so, I believe he will not come yet; he is the more like to come for that, that thou thinkest he will not. That wicked servant, Luk. 12. 45. that said, My Lord delayeth his coming, and did eat and drink, and was Drunken: The Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware. Thou thinkest not that Death will meet thee, that Judgment will meet thee the next time thou art Drunken. But what if it should be so, if thou shouldst be snatch'd from the Ale-bench, and brought to Judgment? how wouldst thou give an account of thy self to God, when thou hast not reason enough left thee to give an answer to a man. Watch therefore, but that can never be, unless thou wilt first awake from thy Drunkenness.
Having showed the Nature and Heinousness of the sin of Drunkenness, come we now to the Remedies for avoiding the same.
Having shewed the Nature and Heinousness of the sin of Drunkenness, come we now to the Remedies for avoiding the same.