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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.
For the more profitable handling of this Branch of Christian watchfulness, viz. over our particular Callings, 1 I shall premise a few things. 2 Give you some directions to help you therein. The things to be premised are these.
I. That every man ought to have a certain Calling, wherein he ⟨p. 35⟩may exercise himself to the glory of God, and good of others which will appear from these reasons.
I. That every man ought to have a certain Calling, wherein hee ⟨p. 35⟩may exercise himself to the glory of God, and good of others which will appear from these reasons.
1 It is the Ordinance of God, 1that in the sweat of his face every man should eat his bread; which words are to be understood not only as a Curse• but also as a Co••nd; yea Adam in the state of Innocency had a Calling appointed him by God, namely, to dress the Garden.2
1 It is the Ordinance of God, 1that in the sweat of his face every man should eat his bread; which words are to bee understood not only as a Curse• but also as a Cond; yea Adam in the state of Innocency had a Calling appointed him by God, namely, to dress the Garden.