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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.
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.
3. Little Oaths are leading sins. As he that accustometh himself to pilfer small things, by the just Judgment ⟨p. 93⟩of God, will at length fall to steal greater things, from a Pin to a Penny, from a Penny to a Pound. So he that accustometh himself to these smaller Oaths, by the just Judgment of God, will at length fall to swear most horrid and hellish Oaths, and stick at none.
3. Little Oaths are leading sins. As he that accustometh himself to pilfer small things, by the just Judgment ⟨p. 93⟩of God, will at length fall to steal greater things, from a Pin to a Peny, from a Peny to a Pound. So he that accustometh himself to these smaller Oaths, by the just Judgment of God, will at length fall to swear most horrid and hellish Oaths, and stick at none.