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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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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.
1 For Solitariness is the Devils opportunity, which he hath always been careful to embrace,1 and improve to the utmost advantage; as we see in David, who when he was walking alone upon the roof of his house, then the Devil set upon him, tempted him unto lust, and prevailed with him. And therefore how doth it concern us to be then especially watchful over our selves?
1 For Solitariness is the Devils opportunity, which hee hath alwaies been careful to imbrace,1 and improve to the utmost advantage; as wee see in David, who when hee was walking alone upon the roof of his house, then the Devil set upon him, tempted him unto lust, and prevailed with him. And therefore how doth it concern us to be then especially watchful over our selves?
2 Because we are then in most danger to be overtaken and foiled with out own sinful lusts; then are we most apt to let out our hearts in speculative wantonness, and contemplative wickedness, by feeding our fancies, and pleasing our selves in lascivious, ambitious, revengeful, and other wicked thoughts. In which respect we ought in our solitariness carefully to watch over our hearts, being then in greatest danger of these spiritual rapes.
2 Because wee are then in most danger to be overtaken and foiled with out own sinful lusts; then are wee most apt to let out our hearts in speculative wantonness, and contemplative wickedness, by feeding our fancies, and pleasing our selves in lascivious, ambitious, revengeful, and other wicked thoughts. In which respect wee ought in our solitariness carefully to watch over our hearts, being then in greatest danger of these spiritual rapes.