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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. Just such a Grace as a Blister, or Carbuncle is to the Face.
A. 1. Iust such a Grace as a Blister, or Carbuncle is to the Face.
2. That Grace and Credit is dear bought, that is gained by pawning their Souls to the Devil.
IV. Some excuse themselves by saying, they utterly detest Swearing, but they have so long accustomed themselves thereunto, that they know not how to leave it.
A. In pleading long custom, thou dost not at all excuse, but the more accuse thy self. For it is as if the Thief should plead at the Bar, that he had been so long accustomed to pilfering and stealing, that he could not now leave it: Would the Judge take this excuse for good, or rather the sooner condemn him, as more justly deserving to be hanged. If Custom will not excuse the Thief for his Stealing, nor the Adulterer for his Whoring, how shall it excuse the Swearer for his swearing? For every sin, by how much the more common and customable, by so much the more heinous and detestable. If once to swear vainly be a sin, then is customary Swearing a crying sin, and must needs incur the higher condemnation. Know therefore