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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.
A. 1. Little Oaths are sins. Our Saviour hath expressly forbidden all kind of Oaths, saying, Swear not at all, Matth. 5. 34. Suppose that to swear by Faith and Troth be not so heinous a sin, as to swear by the Name of God, yet it is a sin, seeing Christ himself hath forbidden, and condemned it.
A. 1. Little Oaths are sins. Our Saviour hath expresly forbidden all kind of Oaths, saying, Swear not at all, Matth. 5. 34. Suppose that to swear by Faith and Troth be not so heynous a sin, as to swear by the Name of God, yet it is a sin, seeing Christ himself hath forbidden, and condemned it.
2. Little Oaths are great sins. God will not hold such guiltless. To be held guilty before God, notes two things.
1. To be under a merit of everlasting wrath. By thy little Oaths thou deservest the wrath of the great God.
2. Guilt notes an obligation to wrath. These Oaths are Bonds by which thou art bound over to the Judgment of the Great Day: and when there it shall be demanded, Guilty, or not Guilty? these only will prove thee guilty.