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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.
Having thus given thee general Directions for thy behaviour in com•••; come we now to the more particular directions […] good company.
Having thus given thee general Directions for thy behaviour in com•••; come wee now to the more particular directions 〈…〉 good company.
I. When thou art in good company,1 trifle not away thy time with worldly conferences and discourses, as the common fault of too too many is, whereof Saint Bernard complained in his time. But let the subject of thy discourse rather be some spiritual matter.
- 1Nihil de Scripturis, nihil de salute agitur animarum, sed nug•, & risus, & verba proseruntur in venturs. Bernard.
II. Labour to turn the current of worldly discourses into spiritual; to that end watch every opportunity which may occasion any digression from worldly matters, into some spiritual and heavenly subject.