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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
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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 Think how sin is most deceitful, which though it appear at first with a Sirens face most delightful, yet it will prove at last to have a Serpents sting, and to wound mortally. And though for the present the way of sin may be very pleasant and delightful, yet the end and issue thereof will be very bitter, if not fearful •nd doleful.
4 Think how sin is most deceitful, which though it appear at first with a Syrens face most delightful, yet it will prove at last to have a Serpents sting, and to wound mortally. And though for the present the way of sin may bee very pleasant and delightful, yet the end and issue thereof will be very bitter, if not fearful •nd doleful.
IV. Think of the fearful effects, and cursed ••••uents of sin; As
1 How it makes a separation between God and our souls; so that there can be no sweet communion between God and us, whereby sin appeareth to be a greater evil than poverty, imprisonment, flame of fire, or the like, for a man may lye under all these evils, and yet lye in Gods bosom.
1 How it makes a separation between God and our souls; so that there can bee no sweet communion between God and us, whereby sin appeareth to be a greater evil than poverty, imprisonment, flame of fire, or the like, for a man may lye under all these evils, and yet lye in Gods bosome.