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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
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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 Such as keep Natural men and women from believing in Jesus Christ. 2 Such as keep off many a sincere broken-hearted Sinner.
1 Such as keep Natural men and women from beleeving in Jesus Christ. 2 Such as keep off many a sincere broken-hearted Sinner.
I. The lets and impediments that keep off Natural men and women from believing in Jesus Christ, are these, and such like.
I. The lets and impediments that keep off Natural men and women from beleeving in Jesus Christ, are these, and such like.
1 A love of their lusts; For this men generally know, that as Dagon fell down before the Ark: so their lusts must fall down before Jesus Christ; they know that when Christ is received into the heart by faith, their lusts must be cast out, for Christ will not be received into that heart which is full of base and sinful lusts. Now mens lusts are dear unto them, and very unwilling they are to part with them, they had as lief part with Christ as part with their lusts.1 This our Saviour intimateth, where he saith, Light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light; where by Light is meant principally Jesus Christ with his Gospel, and by darkness mens lusts, which they prefer before Jesus Christ, and will not part with them for the gaining of Christ, with all the benefits of his Death and Passion. Oh that any man should be so sottish, as to prefer a base sinful lust before Jesus Christ! Surely that man hath a low mean esteem of Christ, who thinks him not able to recompense the loss of a base lust.
1 A love of their lusts; For this men generally know, that as Dagon fell down before the Ark: so their lusts must fall down before Jesus Christ; they know that when Christ is received into the heart by faith, their lusts must be cast out, for Christ will not be received into that heart which is full of base and sinful lusts. Now mens lusts are dear unto them, and very unwilling they are to part with them, they had as lieve part with Christ as part with their lusts.