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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. 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, ⟨p. 40⟩Mercy, Justice, Love, Faithfulness, and other excellencies of God: As also the blessed and happy estate wherein our first Parents were created by God, and that miserable estate whereinto they implunged themselves, and all their posterity, by their disobedience against God in eating the forbidden fruit; and the state of Redemption by Jesus Christ, and the transcendent love of Christ in undergoing a bitter cursed death for us.
1 Let the subject matter of thy Meditation bee 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, Om•ipresence, Omnisciency, 〈…〉, Wisdome, ⟨p. 40⟩Mercy, Iustice, Love, Faithfulness, and other excellencies of God: As also the blessed and happy estate wherein our first Parents were created by God, and that miserable estate whereinto they implunged themselves, and all their posterity, by their disobedience against God in eating the forbidden fruit; and the state of Redemption by Jesus Christ, and the transcendent love of Christ in undergoing a bitter cursed death for us.