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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
These are the Truths to be embraced.
III. Come we now to the Duties to be practised.
1 Upon a serious apprehension of thy miserable condition without Christ, labour to stir up in thy soul some affectionate, ⟨p. 167⟩longing, restless desires after the Lord Jesus Christ, that thou mayest in truth from thine heart, say, Oh that Christ were mine! oh that upon any terms my Soul might enjoy him. This is the lifting up of the doors and gates of the Soul, that so the King of glory m•y enter in, and dwell there.
1 Upon a serious apprehension of thy miserable condition without Christ, labour to stirre up in thy soul some affectionate, ⟨p. 167⟩longing, restless desires after the Lord Jesus Christ, that thou maist in truth from thine heart, say, Oh that Christ were mine! oh that upon any terms my Soul might enjoy him. This is the lifting up of the doors and gates of the Soul, that so the King of glory m•y enter in, and dwell there.