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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.
CHAP. XIII.
Of our Behaviour in Company.
AS thou must be watchful over thy self when thou art alone, so likewise when thou art in company, looking unto thy behaviour therein; and the rather, because we are generally more apt to transgress in company, than when we are alone; experience teacheth us, that many who in secret are watchful over their thoughts, labouring to improve their privacy by some heavenly meditation, and sweet communion with God, are in company very apt to forget God, and themselves too, by giving too much way to the satisfying of their carnal lusts and pleasures, whereby they fall into many sins. And therefore it will not be amiss to set down some directions to guide thee when thou art in company.
AS thou must be watchful over thy self when thou art alone, so likewise when thou art in company, looking unto thy behaviour therein; and the rather, because wee are generally more apt to transgress in company, than when wee are alone; experience teacheth us, that many who in secret are watchful over their thoughts, labouring to improve their privacy by some heavenly meditation, and sweet communion with God, are in company very apt to forget God, and themselves too, by giving too much way to the satisfying of their carnal lusts and pleasures, whereby they fall into many sins. And therefore it will not be amiss to set down some directions to guide thee when thou art in company.