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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.
2. One sin allowed, and delighted in, is enough to keep thy soul out of Heaven. As Adam by eating one forbidden fruit was cast out of Paradise: So mayest thou out of Heaven, for but one sin, that thou hast committed, and not repented of.
2. One sin allowed, and delighted in, is enough to keep thy soul out of Heaven. As Adam by eating one forbidden fruit was cast out of Paradise: So maist thou out of Heaven, for but one sin, that thou hast committed, and not repented of.
3. The living and delighting in one sin doth evidence a rotten, and unsound heart. As it is made in the Scripture a note of uprightness to make Conscience of every known sin. So it is made a note of Hypocrisy to seem to make Conscience of the forbearance of some sins, and yet to live and lye in the practice of others. Hereby was Herod's Hypocrisy discovered, who though upon John Baptists Preaching he reformed much, and did many good things, yet would not part with his beloved Herodias, notwithstanding she was his Brothers Wife.
3. The living and delighting in one sin doth evidence a rotten, and unsound heart. As it is made in the Scripture a note of uprightness to make Conscience of every known sin. So it is made a note of Hypocrisie to seem to make Conscience of the forbearance of some sins, and yet to live and lye in the practice of others. Hereby was Herods Hypocrisie discovered, who though upon Iohn Baptists Preaching he reformed much, and did many good things, yet would not part with his beloved Horodias, notwithstanding she was his Brothers Wife.