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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.
Both against Sin in general, and likewise against the several kinds of Sin.
I. First, thou must watch against Sin in general, not bearing with thy self in the willing practice of any known Sin; for in vain dost thou expect any true peace in thy soul, so long as thou re•ainest, and favourest any one Sin in thy self against thy Conscience.
For the more profitable pressing of this part of Christian watchfulness, I shall give thee some helps to direct thee therein.
1 Carefully avoid all the occasions and means which may allure and draw thee unto sin; for it is impossible to eschew the one without the other; it is not possible that he who is inclined to drunkenness should contain himself from it, if he avoid not the places and company of drunkards; neither is it possible for him that is wanton and lascivious, to abstain from filthiness and uncleanness, if he frequent unchaste company, and pamper himself in gluttony and drunkenness.1