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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.
O Young Man, let the many threatenings in Gods Word, and the various judgments he hath executed upon Whoremongers and Adulterers, make thee afraid, and turn this filthy pleasure into a dread and terror to thee. Come not near the house of the strange Woman, remember that the dead are there, and that her Guests are in the depths of Hell, Prov. 9. 18.
O Young Man, let the many threatnings in Gods Word, and the various judgments he hath executed upon Whoremongers and Adulterers, make thee afraid, and turn this filthy pleasure into a dread and terrour to thee. Come not near the house of the strange Woman, remember that the dead are there, and that her Guests are in the depths of Hell, Prov. 9. 18.
4. There is no sin that is so directly opposite to holiness, and to the holy Spirit of God, as this: Nor any sin that makes us so like the Devil, who is often in the Evangelists called the unclean Spirit, Matth. 10. 1. and 12. 43. Both because he very much delighteth in uncleanness, and likewise maketh it his chief design to entice and draw men thereunto.
4. There is no sin that is so directly opposite to holiness, and to the holy Spirit of God, as this: Nor any sin that makes us so like the Devil, who is often in the Evangelists called the unclean Spirit, Matth. 10. 1. and 12. 43. Both because he very much delighteth in uncleanness, and likewise maketh it his chief design to intice and draw men thereunto.