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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.
1 Go about it with all holy reverence, as in the sight and presence of God,1 believing it to be the Word of God written by holy men, as they were moved and inspired by the Holy Ghost, as the Apostle Peter expresseth it; when therefore thou settest thy self to read the Word, say to thy self. I will hearken what the Lord will speak unto me therein.
1 Go about it with all holy reverence, as in the sight and presence of God,1 beleeving it to bee the Word of God written by holy men, as they were moved and inspired by the Holy Ghost, as the Apostle Peter expresseth it; when therefore thou settest thy self to read the Word, say to thy self. I will hearken what the Lord will speak unto mee therein.
2 Lift up thine heart in prayer unto God, as for the Spirit of Illumination, to open the eyes of thine understanding, that thou mayest rightly conceive his Word: so for wisdom to apply, memory to retain, faith to believe, and grace to practise what thou shalt read.
2 Lift up thine heart in prayer unto God, as for the Spirit of Illumination, to open the eyes of thine understanding, that thou mayest rightly conceive his Word: so for wisdome to apply, memory to retain, faith to beleeve, and grace to practise what thou shalt read.
II. The Rules and Directions to be observed in reading of the Word, are these,