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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 18: Of the well ordering our Thoughts.
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.
CHAP. XVIII. Of the well ordering our Thoughts.
Having showed sundry Vices whereunto Young Men are much addicted, that so they may carefully avoid the same;
HAving shewed sundry Vices whereunto Young Men are much addicted, that so they may carefully avoid the same;
I come now to another direction for the leading a godly and gracious life, which is this; Keep a strict watch over thy self in those things which concern thine own person. For thy help therein, observe these Rules.
1. Be careful of thy thoughts. Care of, and about thoughts, is a special discovery of a godly man. Other men do seldom any more than wash the out-side, let what will lodge within them: Or if Conscience sometimes put them upon a restraint of inward passions, and lusts, yet when do we find any of them make Conscience of a thought?