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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.
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.
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 croud of worldly businesses through thy worldly and wandring thoughts.
II. In the entrance upon this duty, lift up thine heart in some short prayer unto God for his direction, assistance, and blessing thereon.
III. Having thus prepared thy self in some measure, then pitch upon the subject matter whereupon thou intendest to meditate; such as may be fit for thy souls nourishment; Herein observe these Directions.
1 Let the subject matter of thy Meditation be wholly spiritual and divine. Thus any part of the Scripture is a fit subject for thy Meditation, as also God, or any of his Attributes, as […] Omnipotency, Eternity, Immutability, Omnipresence, Omniscience, […], Wisdom,