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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.
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.
3 The third and last particular is Resolution; a resolved purpose of heart to do this or that, or to leave this or that. As if the subject of thy Meditation hath been Death, and finding thine heart thoroughly affect•• with the apprehension thereof, especially of the uncertain of the time of thy death, resolve thereupon to be the ⟨p. 41⟩more careful in embracing every opportunity of doing good, thinking it may be the last that will be afforded unto thee; as also to live in a continual expectation of, and preparation for death, by a daily renewing thy peace with God.
3 The third and last particular is Resolution; a resolved purpose of heart to do this or that, or to leave this or that. As if the subject of thy Meditation hath been Death, and finding thine heart thorowly affect•• with the apprehension thereof, especially of the uncertain• of the time of thy death, resolve thereupon to be the ⟨p. 41⟩more careful in imbracing every opportunity of doing good, thinking it may be the last that will be afforded unto thee; as also to live in a continual expectation of, and preparation for death, by a daily renewing thy peace with God.