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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.
To this end I shall commend that excellent, but too much neglected duty of Divine Meditation, which is twofold.
1 Sudden and occasional. 2 Set and deliberate. Of which severally. And first of sudden and occasional Meditation.
For the better clearing whereof I shall show 1 The nature thereof, what it is. 2 Add some Motives to quicken thee up to a frequent use thereof.
For the better clearing whereof I shall shew 1 The nature therof, what it is. 2 Add some Motives to quicken thee up to a frequent use thereof.
I. For the nature of occasional Meditation; It is a sudden fixing of the mind upon some profitable subject, occasioned by some thing that we see or hear. The which may be done at all times, and in all places, when thou art at home about the works of thy Calling, or walking abroad. Of this sudden and occasional Meditation there may be much use, by reason of the ••riety of Objects, ⟨p. 38⟩