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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.
II. In all thy conversings with men, labour to be fruitful and profitable, both to thy self, and others, by receiving and doing all the good thou canst.
II. In all thy conversings with men, labour to bee fruitful and profitable, both to thy self, and others, by receiving and doing all the good thou canst.
1 To thy self, by receiving all the good thou canst from others. To this end, when thou art in the company of others, diligently observe in what gifts and graces any doth excel (for God hath dispensed various gifts unto his people,1 all are not alike qualified) and then labour to draw forth those gifts and graces to thine own spiritual good and advantage.
2 To others, by communicating unto them such good things as thou conceivest most suitable unto their present state and condition. The more good thou communicatest unto others, the more will God communicate unto thee.
2 To others, by communicating unto them such good things as thou conceivest most suitable unto their present state and condition. The more good thou communicarest unto others, the more will God communicate unto thee.