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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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2 Think how in exposeth thee to all the miseries and calamities that can befall man both here and hereafter: For it brings upon him hardness of heart, horror of conscience, vexation and anguish of soul, and all kind of spiritual evils, the least of which is far worse than all the plagues of Egypt.
2 Think how in exposeth thee to all the miseries and calamities that can befall man both here and hereafter: For it brings upon him hardness of heart, horrour of conscience, vexation and anguish of soul, and all kinde of spiritual evils, the least of which is far worse than all the plagues of Egypt.
4 It likewise subjecteth his body to weaknesses, sicknesses and diseases. Yea sin, while it remaineth unpardoned, subjects a man to all the dreadful fruits and effects of Gods wrath, which are all judgements and plagues here, and eternal torture and torments in that everlasting lake, where is nothing but weeping, and willing, and gnashing of teeth.
Having thus done with the work of Cogitation, Then fall upon the work of Application, to apply these fore-mentioned truths unto thy self, for the warming of thine heart, and quickening of thine affections.