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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.
1. A compassion, or laying to heart the miseries of others.
2. An inclination and readiness to succour and relieve them, according to their misery. It comprehends affection, and action; the former being the Fountain and Foundation of the latter; and the latter the Stream and Demonstration of the former. So that in the compassion of the heart, and in the act of relief, consists the true nature of Mercy.
1. The former we find often pressed in Scripture; as Job 6. 14. To him that is afflicted, pity should be showed to his friend. Put on therefore, saith the Apostle, Col. 3. 12. as the Elect of God, holy, and beloved, bowels of mercy. Which is a Metonymical form of speech, often used in holy Scripture, whereby is meant pity, and compassion towards them that are in any misery, or affliction; yea such a measure of pity and compassion, as affecteth the heart and bowels; and that with as true a touch and feeling, as if we our selves were in the same case with them.
1. The former we find often pressed in Scripture; as Job 6. 14. To him that is afflicted, pity should be shewed to his friend. Put on therefore, saith the Apostle, Col. 3. 12. as the Elect of God, holy, and beloved, bowels of mercy. Which is a Metonymical form of speech, often used in holy Scripture, whereby is meant pity, and compassion towards them that are in any misery, or affliction; yea such a measure of pity and compassion, as affecteth the heart and bowels; and that with as true a touch and feeling, as if we our selves were in the same case with them.