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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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 Beg of God, that he would by the assistance of his holy Spirit restrain all vain and wandering imaginations.
2 Beg of God, that he would by the assistance of his holy Spirit restrain all vain and wandring imaginations.
3 Use thy voice in prayer so often as conveniently thou mayest, provided it be not for ostentation to be heard of others, which thou wilt find very effectual, as for the intention of thine affections, by raising them to an higher pitch; so for the attention of thy mind, in keeping it from wandering and roving after worldly thoughts and imaginations.
3 Vse thy voyce in prayer so often as conveniently thou maist, provided it be not for oftentation to bee heard of others, which thou wilt finde very effectual, as for the intention of thine affections, by raising them to an higher pitch; so for the attention of thy mind, in keeping it from wandring and roving after worldly thoughts and imaginations.
4 But if notwithstanding thou findest, that in praying thy mind and heart hath been sometimes taken up, and possessed with worldly thoughts and distractions, it will be a good course, in thy private prayers, to repeat that again which so coldly and carelessly passed from thee, labouring in thy repetition to repel all wandering thoughts, and to pour forth those petitions again after a more hearty manner; For, by imposing this task upon thy self, thou wilt become more wary and watchful over thy thoughts, lest otherwise thou be enforced to continue long at that exercise, unto which, through the depravation of thy nature, thou art so backward and averse.
4 But if notwithstanding thou findest, that in praying thy mind and heart hath been sometimes taken up, and possessed with worldly thoughts and distractions, it will be a good course, in thy private prayers, to repeat that again which so coldly and carelesly passed from thee, labouring in thy repetition to repel all wandring thoughts, and to pour forth those petitions again after a more hearty manner; For, by imposing this task upon thy self, thou wilt become more wary and watchful over thy thoughts, lest otherwise thou be enforced to continue long at that exercise, unto which, through the depravation of thy nature, thou art so backward and averse.