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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 20: Of the well-ordering our Actions.
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Young men, let it not content you to be only believing, but be doing Christians: be not professing only, but be living Believers. Hast thou Grace? prove that thy Grace is true by this, that thou hast not received the Grace of God in vain. Let thy love prove thy Faith, and thy labours of love prove thy love, and the fruit of thy labours prove that thou hast not either believed, or laboured in vain. Be a Christian for action; let Religion be not only thy Profession, but thy business. Let it not be the business of thy Sabbaths, or of thy praying times, but let it be the ordinary business of thy life; let thy whole course evidence, that Godliness is not an Airy, or empty notion, an insignificant and useless form or show; but that there is a spirit of life and power in it, which worketh in thee mightily.
Young men, let it not content you to be only believing, but be doing Christians: be not professing only, but be living Believers. Hast thou Grace? prove that thy Grace is true by this, that thou hast not received the Grace of God in vain. Let thy love prove thy Faith, and thy labours of love prove thy love, and the fruit of thy labours prove that thou hast not either believed, or laboured in vain. Be a Christian for action; let Religion be not only thy Profession, but thy business. Let it not be the business of thy Sabbaths, or of thy praying times, but let it be the ordinary business of thy life; let thy whole course evidence, that Godliness is not an Airy, or empty notion, an insignificant and useless form or shew; but that there is a spirit of life and power in it, which worketh in thee mightily.
That thy actions, and the way of thy life may be according to Godliness; I shall give thee,
1. Some general. 2. Some particular Directions.