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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.
1 If it be our Superior, it must be done with all reverence and humility, rather beseeching and exhorting, than plainly rebuking, as Naamans servants did their Master.1
1 If it bee our Superiour, it must be done with all reverence and humility, rather beseeching and exhorting, than plainly rebuking, as Naamans servants did their Master.1
2 If the party to be reproved be our equal, then it must be done without all bitterness, even with all love. Reproof is a bitter pill, and therefore it must always be rolled with Sugar, expressing much meekness of spirit, and compassion of heart; showing in the hatred of our brothers sin, our love of his person.
2 If the party to be reproved be our equal, then it must bee done without all bitterness, even with all love. Reproof is a bitter pill, and therefore it must alwaies be rolled with Sugar, expressing much meekness of spirit, and compassion of heart; shewing in the hatred of our brothers sin, our love of his person.
4 The quality of the sin reproved must likewise be observed.
4 The quality of the sin reproved must likewise bee observed.