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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.
1 Negatively, Not with eye-service. 2 Affirmatively, With singleness of heart.
Not with eye-service, which implieth a mere outward service only, to satisfy the eye of man, But with singleness of heart, q. d. Let not your Obedience be hypocritical, merely to be seen of your Masters, ⟨p. 154⟩but let it be in truth and uprightness of heart, doing service to your Masters in the sincerity of your hearts, without any hypocrisy or dissimulation, labouring in your Masters absence as well as in his presence, remembering Gods eye is ever upon you.
Not with eye-service, which implieth a meer outward service only, to satisfie the eye of man, But with singleness of heart, q. d. Let not your Obedience be hypocritical, meerly to be seen of your Masters, ⟨p. 154⟩but let it be in truth and uprightness of heart, doing service to your Masters in the sincerity of your hearts, without any hypocrisie or dissimulation, labouring in your Masters absence as well as in his presence, remembring Gods eye is ever upon you.
2 Your obedience must be conscientious, for conscience sake, because the Lord requireth it at your hands; so much the Apostle expresseth,1 for speaking to Servants, he saith, Whatsoever ye, do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, q. d. whatsoever service ye do to your Masters, do it for the Lords sake, because he hath commanded it, and therefore do it out of conscience to the Word, and command of God, who requireth you to yield sincere service and obedience to your Masters, for this will stir you up to do it after the best manner you can, that so God may accept thereof, and reward you for the same.