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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. The next thing to be considered is the Place, for this duty ought to be private, in some private, retired place, where thou mayst be free from company, and whatsoever may distract thee. For when thou art most retired from the world, then art thou most fit to have communion with God. Therefore Isaac when he would meditate, and by Meditation converse with God,1 walked alone into the fields. And David meditated upon his bed, as himself tells us.
II. The next thing to bee considered is the Place, for this duty ought to be private, in some private, retired place, where thou mayst be free from company, and whatsoever may distract thee. For when thou art most retired from the world, then art thou most fit to have communion with God. Therefore Isaac when hee would meditate, and by Meditation converse with God,1 walked alone into the fields. And David meditated upon his bed, as himself tells us.
III. For the Manner of setting upon this duty.
I. Having with-drawn thy self from worldly company, thou must for the time wholly lay aside all worldly thoughts, for otherwise it may and will fall out, that when thou art separated from the company and society of men; thou mayest be in a crowd of worldly businesses through thy worldly and wandering thoughts.