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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.
The helps and directions are these.
1 Consider, That the Lord doth as strictly observe all inward sinful thoughts, as he doth the outward acts of sin; He is Omniscient, and knoweth all things, yea he is the trier and searcher of our hearts, and so is privy to every vain and wicked,1 to every wanton and lustful thought in our hearts; So that howsoever men discern not our thoughts, yet God doth.
1 Consider, That the Lord doth as strictly observe all inward sinful thoughts, as he doth the outward acts of sin; Hee is Omniscient, and knoweth all things, yea he is the trier and searcher of our hearts, and so is privy to every vain and wicked,1 to every wanton and lustful thought in our hearts; So that howsoever men discern not our thoughts, yet God doth.
2 Make not too much of those vain and wicked thoughts which do either arise from thine own corrupt heart, or are cast in by Satan; I mean, thou must not revolve them in thy mind, by musing ⟨p. 17⟩and meditating on them with any delight; for if so, thou art in danger to be ensnared by them.
2 Make not too much of those vain and wicked thoughts which doe either arise from thine own corrupt heart, or are cast in by Satan; I mean, thou must not revolve them in thy mind, by musing