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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.
Thus much of sudden and occasional Meditation.
Come we now to the set, solemn, and deliberate Meditation,
Come wee now to the set, solemn, and deliberate Meditation,
For the profitable handling whereof, I shall show thee 1 The Nature thereof. 2 Some Rules and Directions to be observed therein. 3 An Example or Pattern thereof according to the Rules.
For the profitable handling whereof, I shall shew thee 1 The Nature thereof. 2 Some Rules and Directions to be observed therein. 3 An Example or Pattern thereof according to the Rules.
1 For the first, viz. the Nature of it, what it is? I answer, a set and deliberate Meditation,1 is a serious applying of the mind to some spiritual or heavenly subject, discoursing thereof with thy self, to the end thine heart may be warmed, thine affections quickened, and thy resolutions heightened to a greater love of God, hatred of sin, &c.