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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. In that it is so full of infamy, that such as make no Conscience of any sin, yet cannot endure to be charged with a Lye.
2. It tends to the utter overthrow of humane Society. For what comfortable Society, or commerce can there be, where men regard not what they say? How shall a man know what to look for, or what to trust to, unless ⟨p. 98⟩men speak the truth one to another? He that uses to Lye, how can he be believed when he speaks truth?
3. Liars in Scripture are reckoned amongst Murderers, Idolaters, and other heinous sinners, whose lot and portion, without true and unfeigned Repentance, will be hell-fire to all eternity, Rev. 21. 8. But the Fearful and Unbelievers, and Murderers, and whore-mongers, and Sorcerers, and Idolaters, and all Liars, shall have their part in the Lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.
3. Lyars in Scripture are reckoned amongst Murtherers, Idolaters, and other heinous sinners, whose lot and portion, without true and unfeigned Repentance, will be hell-fire to all eternity, Rev. 21. 8. But the Fearful and Unbelivers, and Murtherers, and whore-mongers, and Sorcerers, and Idolaters, and all Lyars, shall have their part in the Lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.