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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.
1 Let out thine heart in a serious Meditation of that corruption of nature, which thou and every man brought with him into the world; and how it is not only a sin, but an heinous sin, comprehending in it the seeds of all sins, even of the most abominable that can be imagined.
1 Let out thine heart in a serious Meditation of that corruption of nature, which thou and every man brought with him into the world; and how it is not onely a sin, but an heinous sin, comprehending in it the seeds of all sins, even of the most abominable that can be imagined.
2 Let out thine heart in a serious Meditation of thine actual sins, and of the several kinds of them, viz. Evil Thoughts, evil Words, and evil Actions.
III. Think of the evil qualities of sin. As
1 That it is most foul and filthy, yea far more filthy than a confluence of all the most filthy, nasty, loathsome things in the world. And therefore in the Scriptures it is not only called filthy, but filthiness it self.1