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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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3 As God here seeth and taketh notice of our most secret sins, so he will one time or other discover those deeds of darkness to our great confusion, without true and unfeigned repentance; if not here in this life, yet at the Day of Judgement, when our most secret Sins shall be discovered to the view of all;1 for as the Wise man speaketh, God will bring every work into Judgement, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil, There is never a wicked man almost in the world, though never so formal, but he hath at some time or other committed that wickedness in secret which he would not have known for all the world; but know for certain, that at the Day of Judgement all the world shall hear thereof, for then all thy secret sins shall be discovered to Angels, Men, and Devils, thy secret uncleanness, and close adultery, thy pilferings and stealings, thy false weights and measures shall be brought to the view of all, to thine eternal shame and confusion. Were our hearts thoroughly possessed herewith, oh how watchful would it make us over our selves in secret, and fearful to adventure upon any Sin, though we have the opportunity of privacy for the acting of it?
3 As God here seeth and taketh notice of our most secret sins, so he will one time or other discover those deeds of darkness to our great confusion, without true and unfeigned repentance; if not here in this life, yet at the Day of Judgement, when our most secret Sins shall be discovered to the view of all;1 for as the Wise man speaketh, God will bring every work into Iudgement, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whe•her it be evil, There is never a wicked man almost in the world, though never so formal, but he hath at some time or other committed that wickedness in secret which he would not have known for all the world; but know for certain, that at the Day of Judgement all the world shall hear thereof, for then all thy secret sins shall be discovered to Angels, Men, and Devils, thy secret uncleanness, and close adultery, thy pilferings and stealings, thy false weights and measures shall be brought to the view of all, to thine eternal shame and confusion. Were our hearts thorowly possessed herewith, oh how watchful would it make us over our selves in secret, and fearful to adventure upon any Sin, though we have the opportunity of privacy for the acting of it?