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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.
CHAP. XV.
Directions to the Poor.
Having given Directions to the Rich, I come now to give Directions to the Poorer sort, who stand in as much need as the former.
HAving given Directions to the Rich, I come now to give Directions to the Poorer sort, who stand in as much need as the former.
I. Labour to be content with thine estate, as being that portion God hath allotted unto thee; and repine not against his Providence, because thou hast not a larger allowance; which is the counsel of the Apostle Paul, 1Having food and raiment, let us be therewith content.
I. Labour to be content with thine estate, as being that portion God hath allotted unto thee; and repine not against his Providence, because thou hast not a larger allowance; which is the counsel of the Apostle Paul, 1Having food and raiment, let us bee therewith content.