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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41668	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 ...	Gouge, Thomas, 1605-1681.	1676 (1676)	Wing G1387; ESTC R32454	122,357	176

Oh how sad a sight is it to see men making a Profession of Religion instead of adorning the same with a godly life disgracing it and denying the power thereof in their loose and carnal conversation Let such talk what they will of their Faith that they do believe in Jesus Christ and therefore doubt not their condition is as good as the best yet let them know that that Faith will not save them which brings not forth a godly life Though Faith alone justifies yet Faith which is alone not accompanied with good works doth not justifie nor save It is a dead Faith Jam. 2. 20. Wilt thou hope to live by that Faith which is dead Young men let it not content you to be only believing but be doing Christians be not professing only but be living Believers Hast thou Grace prove that thy Grace is true by this that thou hast not received the Grace of God in vain Let thy love prove thy Faith and thy labours of love prove thy love and the fruit of thy labours prove that thou hast not either believed or laboured in vain Be a Christian for action let Religion be not only thy Profession but thy business Let it not be the business of thy Sabbaths or of thy praying times but let it be the ordinary business of thy life let thy whole course evidence that Godliness is not an Airy or empty notion an insignificant and useless form or shew but that there is a spirit of life and power in it which worketh in thee mightily That thy actions and the way of thy life may be according to Godliness I shall give thee 1. Some general 2. Some particular Directions General Directions are these 1. Ingage thy self deeply in a design for Eternity Resolve for Heaven and the way that leads to it Be not longer a man for this world but for the Everlasting Kingdom and study out with plainness of heart what is the surest way to the blessedness to come and what ever thou findest it to be what ever Objections thou meetest with against it let that be thy way Studiously consider how thou mayst get into that way and contrive and cast about how thou mayst effectually make progress in it Godliness is the way to blessedness and therefore let that be thy great study how thou mayst live godly Till thou hast in good earnest taken up a godly design thou wilt never do any thing to purpose in it The most of men are so far from living a godly life that they have not yet designed any such thing Some good may be done at times by them but it is only as it falls in their way by accident rather than upon any serious good intent This God regards not at all nothing is acceptable to him no nor like to be profitable to us but what is done upon design upon this godly design When the series or course of our actions do as the several Links in a Chain all hang together and draw all one way then there 's like to be something done to purpose When there is only some little good scattered up and down here a Link of the Chain and there another but not joyned in a Chain together they will not help us on our way Let that therefore be your first care take up an heavenly design and therein let all your particular acts of Religion hang together 2. Let thy whole life be a prosecuting and serving thy godly design And that thou mayst the more effectually prosecute it and prosper in it 1. Let Faith and Love be the Root of thy life and the several actions of it 2. Let the Word and Will of God be the rule of thy actions 3. Let the glorifying and injoying God be the end of them 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 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 Carnal Professors are beholding only to their Books or their Teachers or their Acquaintance or their Parts their Understanding their Memories c. Nay it may be to their Flesh and their Lusts for all their Religion they would not pray as they do nor take such pains to hear as they do nor profess as they do did not their pride or their covetousness or their company prompt and press them to it But the Religion of a sincere Christian whatever advantage it may have from Books or Teachers or good Society yet it springs and rises all from Christ. That Faith which is their Root uniting them to Christ doth also as their root suck such spirits and sap and strength from Christ and convey it to their Souls that they are thereby furnished for and quickned to every good 〈◊〉 Let it be thus with thee O Soul let thy Faith i●… Christ be the root from whence all thy actions and 〈◊〉 strength for action comes 2. Let Love be the root of thy life Let thy duties be the works of Faith and labours of Love The love of Christ constraineth us 2 Cor. 5. 14. Christians love Christ both his Person and holy ways and thence 't is they follow him so fast They love to be holy and therefore follow Holiness they love to pray and love to hear and love to labour for Christ and to watch with Christ and walk with him and therefore 't is they live a Praying Hearing Labouring Watchful life Love quickens them to duty and love sweetens every duty Young Man thou wilt never bear through the hard services and great severities of a godly life thou wilt never ●…old out in that constant care labour watchfulness self-denial which Religion will put thee upon unless thy love to Christ do quicken thee on and sweeten all to thee Carnal Professors whatever they do they do all for fear or from force or fashion they would be bad enough or do little enough if they did dare if they were not afraid or ashamed or were it not from the influence of some things external upon them Though thou also must make use of fear and all manner of Arguments and helps to lead and press on thy backward heart yet see to it that thy love

to keep a strict watch over thy self in those things which concern thine own person For help therein several Rules are given 1. Be careful of thy thoughts in well ordering them 103 Helps thereunto 103 2. Be careful of thy words that they be well governed 107 3. Be careful of thy actions concerning which are given 111 1. Some General 112 2. Some Particular Directions General Directions are these 1. Ingage thy self in a deep design for Eternity 112 2. Let thy whole life be a prosecuting and serving thy godly design 113 That thou mayst the more effectually proseeute it and prosper in it 1. Let Faith and Love be the root of thy life and the several actions of it 113 2. Let the Word and Will of God be the Rule of thy actions 115 3. Let the glorifying and enjoying of God be the end of thy life and of all the duties of it 116 Particular Directions for ordering our lives and actions according to Godliness are these 1. Beware of living in the wilful omission of any known Duty 117 2. Live not in the practice of any known sin 119 3. If thou hast been overtaken with any sin and thereby made a wound in thy Conscience seek an healing Plaister by sound Repentance and Faith in the Blood of Christ. 121 4. When through Grace thou art recovered take heed of falling back again 122 5. Be moderate in all things more particularly 1. In the use of Meats and Drinks 123 2. In Sports and Recreations 125 3. In the pursuit of Worldly Wealth and seeking after riches 128 V. Directions in reference to your Carriage towards oothers 1. Be peaceable towards all men 138 2. Be affable and courteous to others 142 3. Be humble towards all men 143 4. Be as serviceable to others as thou canst 144 5. Be merciful towards such as are in misery 146 6. Be careful to restore what thou hast stoln or unjustly got 150 7. Have special regard to thy Relative Duties 153 The special Relative Duties incumbent on Governonrs and Masters of Families are these 1. Let your Houses be daily perfumed by a Morning and Evening Sacrifice of Prayer and Praise unto God 154 2. Let the Word of God be frequently read in your Families 155 3. Set some time apart in every Week to Catechise those under your Charge teaching them the chief Principles of Religion 156 4. Be careful that thy self and Family keep the Lords Day holy 156 For a Conclusion of the whole In a careful observation of all these Directions give diligence to make thy Calling and Election sure 158 THE Young Man's Guide CHAP. I. The Exposition of the Words Eccl. 12. 1. Remember now thy Creatour in the dayes of thy Youth while the evil dayes come not nor the years draw night when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them THE Royal Preacher King Solomon in the latter part of the foregoing Chapter doth by an emphatical Irony disswade young men from those youthful lusts and sensual pleasures whereunto they are naturally addicted and that by the consideration of that dreadful account they are to give unto God at the great day as vers 4. Rejoyce O young man in thy youth and walk in the wayes of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into Iudgement As if he had said since thou art so set upon it to have thy will and thy way to suck the sweet and make the best of what is before thee take thy course take thy fill of thy pleasure ease and hearts-content whilest thou livest but remember what comes after and know that for all thy sweet morsels and pleasant draughts for all thy pleasant sins and youthful liberties and those vain and wicked courses wherein thou now takest such content and delight God will bring thee into judgement die thou must thou knowest not how soon and after death thou shalt be brought before Gods Tribunal there to answer for all that thou hast done and receive a just recompence of reward Remember this O young man and then go on thy way at thy peril A serious consideration of the judgement of God would be an excellent means to abate the heat of lust and take off young men from those sensual delights wherein they are commonly so drench'd and drown'd Solomon having thus disswaded young men from their youthful lusts and pleasures In the beginning of this Chapter he perswades them to the seeking of God and that from their youth and younger years by several arguments The first is couched in the four first verses of this twelfth Chapter taken from the unfitness of old men to set themselves to the service of God which they have neglected all the former part of their lives Remember now thy Creatour in the dayes of thy yeuth while the evil dayes come not nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them Briefly to clear the words Remember Young men of all others in this case have but short memories are apt to forget God his wayes and Judgements and to leave the care and minding hereof to their old age Therefore the Wise man knowing how unfit and unseasonable that would be to enter upon so great a work adviseth them to begin betimes and early to fix their thoughts on God and to consecrate their strength from the very first to him For this remembrance in the text doth not only import an Act of memory but such a calling to mind as works upon the affection and practice so as to set us a doing of what we know and remember To remember God is the same as to know God to love and fear and serve him 'T is the same counsel which Solomon here gives which once he received from his aged Father 1 Chron. 28. 9. And thou Solomon my Son know thou the God of thy Father and serve him with a perfect heart and willing mind As God is said to remember man when he thinks upon him to do him good So man doth then remember God when he thinks upon him to do him service Thy Creatour From whom thou hadst thy being and well-being thy Creation and Preservation and therefore owest thy self and service unto him As thou art from God so thou oughtest to love and live unto him he made thee this living soul after his own image and thereby as thou art more capable so art thou the more obliged unto him and that Now in the dayes of thy Youth Which is the prime of thy time the flowre of thine age the strength of thy life when thou art able to do him the best service God will be served with the best of all thy strength and will not be put off till thy strength be gone therefore now in the flowre of thy youth give up thy self unto him While the evil dayes come not nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them That is