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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.
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.
3 Let the consideration of the heinous nature of sin, and fearful punishments due unto thee for the same, ravish thy soul with an admirat••• of the love of Christ, yea and inflame thy heart with a […], who hath born thy sins for thee, and by his ⟨p. 43⟩death satisfied Gods justice for the same.
3 Let the consideration of the hainous nature of sin, and fearful punishments due unto thee for the same, ravish thy soul with an admirat••• of the love of Christ, yea and inflame thy heart with a 〈…〉, who hath born thy sins for thee, and by his ⟨p. 43⟩death satisfied Gods justice for the same.
Having thus done with the work of Cogitation and Application, then proceed to Resolution against sin for the time to come Resolve therefore to give sin a Bill of divorce, to be more watchful against sin, that it may not rule nor reign in thee, as formerly it hath done; say with thy self, Though I cannot utterly destroy sin, but that it will remain and abide in me, yet I am resolved, with the assistance of Gods grace, so to keep it under, that it shall not reign in me; that though it do keep possession in me, yet that it shall not have dominion over me. To this end I will carefully shun and avoid all the occasions and means which may allure and draw me unto sin.