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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
THE Young Man's Guide. › Chapter 1: The Exposition of the Words.
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.
The first is couched in the four first verses of this twelfth Chapter, taken from the unfitness of old men to set themselves to the service of God, which they have neglected all the former part of their lives: Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them. Briefly to clear the words.
The first is couched in the four first verses of this twelfth Chapter, taken from the unfitness of old men to set themselves to the service of God, which they have neglected all the former part of their lives: Remember now thy Creatour in the dayes of thy yeuth, while the evil dayes come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them. Briefly to clear the words.
Remember.] Young men of all others in this case have but short memories, are apt to forget God, his ways and Judgements, and to leave the care and minding hereof to their old age. Therefore the Wise man knowing how unfit and unseasonable that would be to enter upon so great a work adviseth them to begin betimes, and early to fix their thoughts on God, and to consecrate their strength, from the very first to him. For this remembrance in the text doth not only import an Act of memory, but such a calling to mind as works upon the affection, and practice, so as to set us a doing of what we know and remember.
Remember.] Young men of all others in this case have but short memories, are apt to forget God, his wayes and Judgements, and to leave the care and minding hereof to their old age. Therefore the Wise man knowing how unfit and unseasonable that would be to enter upon so great a work adviseth them to begin betimes, and early to fix their thoughts on God, and to consecrate their strength, from the very first to him. For this remembrance in the text doth not only import an Act of memory, but such a calling to mind as works upon the affection, and practice, so as to set us a doing of what we know and remember.