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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.
Dedication: TO My dearly beloved Friends and Neighbours, the Inhabitants of Sepulchres Parish.
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.
My Dear Friends,
Considering with my self, how besides my Lords-days Preaching, and Week-days Catechizing, I might be further serviceable to your souls, in promoting their spiritual welfare; It pleased God to put it into my heart, to draw up some practical Directions for your better guidance in the way to Heaven, and to give to every Family in my Parish a Copy of them. Accordingly I set upon the work with all readiness and alacrity, being much persuaded in my self that some spiritual advantage might (through Gods blessing) accrue unto your souls thereby. The Lord, who is the searcher of all hearts, knoweth, that my only end and aim herein is the advancement of your everlasting salvation, which if it shall be any way furthered by this small Treatise, I shall never repent of my pains and cost: But shall very much rejoice that the Lord hath enabled me (in any measure) to be serviceable to him in the furtherance of the Gospel of his dear Son, especially among you my dear flock.
COnsidering with my self, how besides my Lords-daies Preaching, and Week-daies Catechizing, I might be further serviceable to your souls, in promoting their spiritual welfare; It pleased God to put it into my heart, to draw up some practical Directions for your better guidance in the way to Heaven, and to give to every Family in my Parish a Copy of them. Accordingly I set upon the work with all readiness and alacrity, being much perswaded in my self that some spiritual advantage might (through Gods blessing) accrew unto your souls thereby. The Lord, who is the searcher of all hearts, knoweth, that my only end and aim herein is the advancement of your everlasting salvation, which if it shall be any way furthered by this small Treatise, I shall never repent of my pains and cost: But shall very much rejoyce that the Lord hath inabled mee (in any measure) to be serviceable to him in the furtherance of the Gospel of his dear Son, especially among you my dear flock.