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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.
1 Make this application to thy self, to look after Jesus Christ, and to value him above all things. Let the consideration of thy manifold sins drive thee unto Jesus Christ, who alone can free thee from the guilt of them, and punishments due unto them. Happy is he whom the sense of his sins makes to long in his soul for Christ, and to count all things but dross and dung in comparison of him;1 and that rejoiceth in that fountain of grace which the Lord hath opened for sin, and for uncleanness; and triumphs in his spirit, because of the hope to be discharged by another, of that, for which himself cannot satisfy.
1 Make this application to thy self, to look after Jesus Christ, and to value him above all things. Let the consideration of thy manifold sins drive thee unto Jesus Christ, who alone can free thee from the guilt of them, and punishments due unto them. Happy is hee whom the sense of his sins makes to long in his soul for Christ, and to count all things but dross and dung in comparison of him;1 and that rejoyceth in that fountain of grace which the Lord hath opened for sin, and for uncleanness; and triumphs in his spirit, because of the hope to be discharged by another, of that, for which himself cannot satisfie.
2 Admire the wonderful patience of God, in bearing with thee so long, notwithstanding thy manifold provocations. It may be thou hast been a swearer, a Sabbath-breaker, an unclean person for many years, and yet God hath spared thee; Oh thence take occasion to admire the long-suffering and forbearance of God towards thee.
2 Admire the wonderful patience of God, in bearing with thee so long, notwithstanding thy manifold provocations. It may bee thou hast been a swearer, a Sabbath-breaker, an unclean person for many years, and yet God hath spared thee; Oh thence take occasion to admire the long-suffering and forbearance of God towards thee.