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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.
4 Having spoken of preparation to the work, come we now to the work it self, which consists of three particular heads.
4 Having spoken of preparation to the work, come wee now to the work it self, which consists of three particular heads.
1 The first I may call Cogitation, whereby I mean a discoursing of the understanding about the subject matter pitched upon, a calling to mind of several truths that belong thereunto. As if the subject of thy Meditation be Death, then call to mind, and seriously think, as of the certainty of Death, so also of the uncertainty thereof, both in regard of the Place where, the Manner how, and the Time when. And then to argue the necessity of a continual expectation of• and preparation for Death.
1 The first I may call Cogitation, whereby I mean a discoursing of the understanding about the subject matter pitched upon, a calling to minde of several truths that belong thereunto. As if the subject of thy Meditation be Death, then call to mind, and seriously think, as of the certainty of Death, so also of the uncertainty thereof, both in regard of the Place where, the Manner how, and the Time when. And then to argue the necessity of a continual expectation of• and preparation for Death.
2 The second is Application, to make some close application to thy self of those truths thou hast called to mind, for the warming of thine heart, and quickening of thine affections.
2 The second is Application, to make some close application to thy self of those truths thou hast called to mind, for the warming of thine heart, and quickning of thine affections.