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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.
2 That by not reproving thy brother, thou sufferest him to run on▪ and continue in his course of sin, which will at last prove his destruction.
For the right manner of performing this duty, both certain General Rules must be observed, and also Particular, according to diverse circumstances. General Rules are these.
1 He that reproveth another, must lift up his heart in prayer unto God, that he would so guide his tongue, and move the others heart, that his reproof may be profitable unto him. For without Gods blessing, all our admonitions and reproofs will prove but words spoken in the air.
1 Hee that reproveth another, must lift up his heart in prayer unto God, that hee would so guide his tongue, and move the others heart, that his reproof may bee profitable unto him. For without Gods blessing, all our admonitions and reproofs will prove but words spoken in the air.
2 Our reproof must be done in love, aiming therein at our brothers good, and not at all at his disgrace. For […] the Apostle speaketh,