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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 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.
2 Let such know and consider, that the apprehension of the number and heinousness of their sins, should be so far from keeping them from going to Christ, and receiving him, that it should be a forcible Argument to drive them unto Christ, 1seeing Christ professeth▪ he came into the world to save sinners; where by sinners are meant, such as are truly sensible of their sins. And thereupon all such sinners are invited to come uno him;