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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. As thou must watch against Sin in general, so likewise against the several sorts and kinds of sin. A,
I. Against thy beloved Sin;1 for there is none of us all but we have in us our darling and beloved Sin, our own Idol (as I may say) whereunto we many times do service, to the great offence of Almighty God.
I. Against thy beloved Sin;1 for there is none of us all but wee have in us our darling and beloved Sin, our own Idol (as I may say) whereunto we many times doe service, to the great offence of Almighty God.
- 1Peccatum in deliciis, as Aug. calls it.
For the better discovery whereof take these few directions.
1 Observe which way the stream of thy thoughts run, especially thy morning thoughts, whether after the world, or this or that lust, for Where the Carcass is, there will the Eagles be gathered together; whatsoever thy beloved Sin is, upon that will thy morning thoughts most hover; so that if worldliness and covetousness be thy beloved Sin, thy morning thoughts for the most part will be upon the