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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.
4. One sin never goeth alone, but is ever accompanied with more. For it is the natural effect of sin (especially being wittingly committed) to make men apter to s•n, Rom. 6. 19, You have yielded your members servants to uncleanness, and to iniquity, unto iniquity. God in his just judgement oft-times as a punishment for some o•e sin, leaves men so to themselves, that they break forth into the committing of others.
5. For a man to live and lye impenitently in the practice ⟨p. 120⟩of a known sin is the dreadfullest judgement in the World. Better were it for a man to be given up to the Devil, than to the power of one sinful Lust. The incestuous person was delivered up to Satan, (1 Cor. 5. 5.) but he was restored again, and the better for it. Whereas we seldom read, or hear of any who were given up to the Lusts of their own hearts, that ever recovered.
5. For a man to live and lye impenitently in the practice ⟨p. 120⟩of a known sin is the dreadfullest judgement in the World. Better were it for a man to be given up to the Devil, than to the power of one sinful Lust. The incestuous person was delivered up to Satan, (1 Cor. 5. 5.) but he was restored again, and the better for it. Whereas we seldome read, or hear of any who were given up to the Lusts of their own hearts, that ever recovered.