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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.
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,
II. The Rules and Directions to bee observed in reading of the Word, are these,
1 Read the holy lives and actions of Gods Children, not only as matters of history, but as patterns of imitation: for, for this end are they recorded unto us,1 as St. Paul testifieth, Whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our learning.
1 Read the holy lives and actions of Gods Children, not onely as matters of history, but as patterns of imitation: for, for this end are they recorded unto us,1 as St. Paul testifieth, Whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our learning.