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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.
II. The Lets and Impediments that keep off many a sincere, broken-hearted sinner from closing with Jesus Christ, and believing in him, are these, and such like,
II. The Lets and Impediments that keep off many a sincere, broken-hearted sinner from clozing with Jesus Christ, and beleeving in him, are these, and such like,
1 A deep apprehension of the number and heinousness of their sins; For the removal of this, let such consider,
1 That the more and greater their sins are, the greater need they have to go unto Jesus Christ, and to cast themselves, and the burden of their sins upon him. For as the more sick any are in body, the more need they have of a Physician: So the more sinful any souls are, the more sick of sin, the more need they have to go unto Jesus Christ, who is the only Physician of the soul, who both can and will heal all their sins, which are the spiritual diseases of their souls, as readily as he healed bodily diseases, when he was upon the earth, if they will go unto him.
1 That the more and greater their sins are, the greater need they have to go unto Iesus Christ, and to cast themselves, and the burthen of their sins upon him. For as the more sick any are in body, the more need they have of a Physician: So the more sinful any souls are, the more sick of sin, the more need they have to go unto Jesus Christ, who is the onely Physician of the soul, who both can and will heal all their sins, which are the spiritual diseases of their souls, as readily as he healed bodily diseases, when he was upon the earth, if they will go unto him.