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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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3 Christs willingness doth appear, in that he •oth accept of the least and lowest degree of Faith, and will not discourage the weakest soul that cometh unto him.1 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench. As by a bruised need is there meant a weak Christian, so by smoking flax, such an one as hath corruption mixed with grace. For the flax there mentioned is the wick of a Candle, which if it smoke, giveth but little light, and yields a stinking savour. Though true believers by reason of the flesh in them may be such, yet will not Christ quench that little light of Faith that is in them.
3 Christs willingness doth appear, in that hee •oth accept of the least and lowest degree of Faith, and will not discourage the weakest soul that cometh unto him.1 A bruised reed shall hee not break, and smoaking flax shall hee not quench. As by a bruised need is there meant a weak Christian, so by smoaking flax, such an one as hath corruption mixed with grace. For the flax there mentioned is the weick of a Candle, which if it smoak, giveth but little light, and yeelds a stinking savour. Though true beleevers by reason of the flesh in them may bee such, yet will not Christ quench that little light of Faith that is in them.
3 A third Let and Impediment, is a fear and jealousy that they are not sufficiently humbled under the sense of their sins; and the rather, because they do not find their hearts so broken, as the hearts of others have been. For the removal of this, I desire such to take notice of these things.