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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.
V. Therefore labour to be humble under thine abundance; to be low in thine own thoughts, when thou art high in the world; which indeed will prove thy glory: for humility is an ornament, as the Apostle Peter implieth under that phrase,1 Be clothed or decked with humility▪ as with an ornament. Many men think humility a debasement, but the Spirit of God counteth it an ornament.
V. Therefore labour to bee humble under thine abundance; to be low in thine own thoughts, when thou art high in the world; which indeed will prove thy glory: for humility is an ornament, as the Apostle Peter implieth under that phrase,1 Bee cloathed or decked with humility▪ as with an ornament. Many men think humility a debasement, but the Spirit of God counteth it an ornament.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]. 1 Pet. 5. 5.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. 1 Pet. 5. 5.
VI. Labour for the true spiritual Riches, 1namely, saving, sanctifying graces, that thy self may be rich, and not thy chest only. And truly, rich men, of all others, stand in most need of sanctifying graces; in regard their riches are great snares unto them, and occasions of sin, as a long coat is in greater danger to be daggled, than a short one. Oh therefore beg of God that he would not […] thee off with the things of this world, but that together