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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 24: Of Moderation in seeking after Riches
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. Because there is no permanency in them, Being all subject to change and corruption.
1. Because there is no permanen•y in them, Being all subject to change and corruption.
2. Because they are false and deceitful, deceiving such as trust in them. They promise much content, and satisfaction, but they are so far from yielding the same, that they often bring much grief and trouble of mind.
2. Consider they are not only vanity, but vexation of Spirit, Eccles. 2. 11. Though riches are nothing in themselves, yet are they full of power and activity to inflict vexation upon the spirit of a man. For there is vexation in getting them, vexation and care in keeping, and vexation in parting with them. So that Worldliness is not only a sin, but a torment and vexation, it is its own punishment. Most sins carry a delight in their face, as this also doth; but they have a sting in their Tails: That which is so beautiful in thine eye, will be gall in thine heart, and Wormwood in thy belly. As those that live godly, so thou also that wilt live worldlily, must suffer tribulation; and through those many tribulations must thou enter into the Kingdom of everlasting darkness.