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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.
II. Another help and direction is, to propound Gods glory as the chief end and aim of all thine actions; 1which direction the Apostle Paul giveth us in express terms, Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God; i. e. that God may be thereby glorified. For,
II. Another help and direction is, to propound Gods glory as the chief end and aim of all thine actions; 1which direction the Apostle Paul giveth us in express terms, Whatsoever yee doe, doe all to the glory of God; i. e. that God may be thereby glorified. For,
1 Without this thy best actions, thy most religious exercises are neither acceptable nor pleasing unto God; let any action be in it self never so specious and glorious, yet if Gods glory be not the end of it, there is a woe to such works, instead of an Euge, or Well done.
1 Without this thy best actions, thy most religious exercises are neither acceptable nor pleasing unto God; let any action bee in it self never so specious and glorious, yet if Gods glory bee not the end of it, there is a woe to such works, instead of an Euge, or Well done.
2 This puts a value and price upon all our actions, the more they a•m at this end the better they be. As therefore thou desirest to have thine actions and services acceptable and pleasing unto God, let his glory be thy chief and principal aim therein, doing what thou dost in obedience to the Command of God, that he thereby may be glorified.