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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.
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. Let Faith and Love be the root of thy actions.
1. Let Faith be the root of them, 1 Tim. 1. 5. The end of the Commandment is Charity out of a pure heart, and a good Conscience, and [Faith unfeigned.] Heb. 11. 6. without Faith it is impossible to please God. Our persons must be accepted first, before our actions, and neither the one nor the other will be accepted without Faith in Christ, Heb. 11. 4.
A godly life, and a life of Faith, are the same. A life of Faith hath its Original from above, is fetched down from Christ, and is maintained and carried on by a continual supply of fresh influences from him, without whom we can do nothing. If thou wilt live godly, thou must look to Christ, and lean on Christ, and go to Christ for all thy strength and motion. A Christian is beholding to Christ for every good motion he moves, for every Grace he hath, and for every good duty he doth.
A godly life, and a life of Faith, are the same. A life of Faith hath its Original from above, is fetch'd down from Christ, and is maintained and carried on by a continual supply of fresh influences from him, without whom we can do nothing. If thou wilt live godly, thou must look to Christ, and lean on Christ, and go to Christ for all thy strength and motion. A Christian is beholding to Christ for every good motion he moves, for every Grace he hath, and for every good duty he doth.