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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. Having thus consecrated thy first awaking unto God, by blessing him for the mercies of the night, and for adding another day to thy life, then steep thy thoughts in a serious meditation of God, and of some or other of his glorious Attributes, as
1 Of the infinite Purity of God, who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, i. e. 1with the least approbation; but hates all sin with a perfect hatred, as being contrary to his nature. A serious consideration whereof would, through Gods blessing, prove very effectual for the suppressing of those impure thoughts which are apt to arise from thy corrupt heart.
2 Of the almighty Power of God, whereby he is able to strengthen thee in all thy weaknesses, to support thee under all thy trials and temptations, to supply all thy wants, to deliver thee out of all thy dangers, to carry thee through all thy undertakings. In which respect the Apostle calleth Gods Power, a mighty Power, and an exceeding-greatness of Power, Ephes. 1. 19. A serious consideration whereof, cannot but stir thee up, as to fly unto God by Prayer in ⟨p. 2⟩all thy wants, straights▪ and dangers, so to cast thy self upon him and his mighty Power, to rest and rely upon him for seasonable help, succour, and deliverance, who never faileth those who put their trust in him.