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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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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 Labour to work something of that thou hast read upon thine ⟨p. 15⟩heart, and give not over till thou findest the affections of thy soul warmed thereby.
To quicken you up to a frequent reading of the Scriptures, consider these two Motives.
1 The first may be taken from those treasures that are contained therein, such treasures as men never heard of. The subject matter of the Word, are such mysteries as were hidden in God, and by his Spirit revealed unto men. All the abstruse learning, and mysteries of other books and writings, are but straw and stubble, yea dross and dung in comparison of the precious pearls in this.
2 Another Motive may be taken from the many sweet and precious promises which are scattered up and down in the Word. For as there is not a condition into which a Child of God can fall, but there is a Direction and Rule in the Word, in some measure suitable thereunto: so there is not an affliction into which a child of God can fall, but there is a promise in the Word in some measure suitable thereunto.