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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.
CHAP. XIV. Of Wantonness and Uncleanness, which is another Vice whereunto Young Men are addicted.
III. Another sin whereunto Young Men are addicted, is Wantonness, and Uncleanness, Prov. 7. 7. It was a Young Man that followed the Harlot to her house. Young Men are generally apt to this Beastly sin, and to make light of it, when they have done, accounting it but a trick of Youth, and a Venial transgression; as if their Youthful propensity thereto, and the commonness thereof in men of that age, might be their sufficient Apology and excuse. Therefore I shall show you:
III. ANother sin whereunto Young Men are addicted, is Wantonness, and Uncleanness, Prov. 7. 7. It was a Young Man that followed the Harlot to her house. Young Men are generally apt to this Beastly sin, and to make light of it, when they have done, accounting it but a trick of Youth, and a Venial transgression; as if their Youthful propensity thereto, and the commonness thereof in men of that age, might be their sufficient Apology and excuse. Therefore I shall shew you:
1. The Kinds and Degrees of this sin. 2. The Heinousness of it. 3. The Danger thereof. 4. Some Remedies against the same.