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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.
To remember God is the same as to know God, to love, and fear, and serve him. 'Tis the same counsel which Solomon here gives, which once he received from his aged ⟨p. 3⟩Father, 1 Chron. 28. 9. And thou Solomon my Son, know thou the God of thy Father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and willing mind. As God is said to remember man, when he thinks upon him to do him good: So man doth then remember God, when he thinks upon him to do him service.
Thy Creator.] From whom thou hadst thy being, and well-being, thy Creation and Preservation, and therefore owest thy self, and service unto him. As thou art from God, so thou oughtest to love and live unto him: he made thee this living soul after his own image, and thereby as thou art more capable, so art thou the more obliged unto him; and that
Thy Creatour.] From whom thou hadst thy being, and well-being, thy Creation and Preservation, and therefore owest thy self, and service unto him. As thou art from God, so thou oughtest to love and live unto him: he made thee this living soul after his own image, and thereby as thou art more capable, so art thou the more obliged unto him; and that
Now in the days of thy Youth (Which is the prime of thy time, the flower of thine age, the strength of thy life, when thou art able to do him the best service. God will be served with the best of all thy strength, and will not be put off till thy strength be gone: therefore now in the flower of thy youth give up thy self unto him.
Now in the dayes of thy Youth (Which is the prime of thy time, the flowre of thine age, the strength of thy life, when thou art able to do him the best service. God will be served with the best of all thy strength, and will not be put off till thy strength be gone: therefore now in the flowre of thy youth give up thy self unto him.