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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 Against Sin in general, and the several kinds thereof.
1 Thou must be watchful over thy Thoughts, 1that vain Thoughts may not lodge in thine heart.
For the profitable pressing of this, I shall 1 Give you some Motives to quicken you up thereunto. 2 Some Directions and helps thereunto.
I. For Motives, first consider, that vain and evil thoughts, though they break not forth into acts, yet are they actual sins; for thoughts, though they are inward, yet are they the acts of the soul, and in that they are evil, they are sinful.