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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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2 An over-much love of the world and worldly things. The truth is, that soul that is not in some measure divorced from the world, cannot by faith embrace the Lord Jesus Christ as her Husband. O therefore let it be your daily Prayer, and earnest endeavour, to wean your hearts more and more from the love of these earthly things, that ye may not love them so much, as thereby to be kept from loving and embracing of Jesus Christ.
2 An over-much love of the world and worldly things. The truth is, that soul that is not in some measure divorsed from the world, cannot by faith embrace the Lord Jesus Christ as her Husband. O therefore let it be your daily Prayer, and earnest endeavour, to wean your hearts more and more from the love of these earthly things, that yee may not love them so much, as thereby to be kept from loving and embracing of Jesus Christ.
3 Spiritual Pride, grounded upon a mans over-valuing conceit of himself, and of his own estate. How many are apt to think with the Church of Laodicea, that they are rich and full, and have need of nothing; when in truth they are poor, and blind, and naked, wretched, and miserable, being empty of all grace and goodness? yea they are the more wretched and miserable, because they know not their misery, and so see no need, no necessity they have of Jesus Christ; which is the saddest condition in the ⟨p. 163⟩world: for such are furthest off from going unto Christ, and believing in him. He therefore that would embrace Jesus Christ as his Saviour, must come with an empty hand and heart, receiving him with an empty hand of Faith, into an empty heart, emptied of all self, as self righteousness, self-worthiness, self-goodness, &c.
3 Spiritual Pride, grounded upon a mans over-valuing conceit of himself, and of his own estate. How many are apt to think with the Church of Laodicea, that they are rich and full, and have need of nothing; when in truth they are poor, and blind, and naked, wretched, and miserable, being empty of all grace and goodness? yea they are the more wretched and miserable, because they know not their misery, and so see no need, no necessity they have of Jesus Christ; which is the saddest condition in the