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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 Know, that if thou beest not at present so deeply humbled and ⟨p. 165⟩broken for thy sins, as thou wouldest be, yet thou mayest be more humbled after thy believing in Christ. For a Christians sorrow and humiliation for sin and misery is not all at first, but oftentimes it is more and greater after a closing with Jesus Christ, and a sensible feeling of Gods love, than it was before. Yea the le•s humiliation before Faith in Jesus Christ, the more many times follows after. And that is true humiliation, and Evangelical Repentance, which followeth after Faith.
3 Know, that if thou beest not at present so deeply humbled and ⟨p. 165⟩broken for thy sins, as thou wouldest be, yet thou mayest bee more humbled after thy beleeving in Christ. For a Christians sorrow and humiliation for sin and misery is not all at first, but often•imes it is more and greater after a clozing with Jesus Christ, and a sensible feeling of Gods love, than it was before. Yea the le•s humiliation before Faith in Jesus Christ, the more many times follows after. And that is true humiliation, and Evangelical Repe•tance, which followeth after Faith.
4 Another Let and Impediment that keeps off many a sincere Christian from going unto Christ, and closing with him, is a fear and sealousie that their day of grace is past; and that it is now too late, having so long stood out against the tenders and offers of Jesus Christ. For the removal of this, I shall propound four things to your serious consideration.
4 Another Let and Impediment that keeps off many a sincere Christian from going unto Christ, and clozing with him, is a fear and sealousie that their day of grace is past; and tht it is now too late, having so long stood out against the tenders and offers of Jesus Christ. For the removal of this, I shall propound four things to your serious consideration.