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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.
1 When thou seest the nakedness of thy body, let that mind thee of thy sin, which caused thee first to be ashamed of it; For our first Parents before they had sinned, were not ashamed of their nakedness,1 as you have it, Gen. 2. 25. They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed, not because they did not know themselves to be naked, but because there was in their nakedness nothing to be ashamed of, their bodies being more comely than any apparel could make them; But after our first Parents had sinned, then were they ashamed of their nakedness.
1 When thou seest the nakedness of thy body, let that minde thee of thy sin, which caused thee first to be ashamed of it; For our first Parents before they had sinned, were not ashamed of their nakedness,1 as you have it, Gen. 2. 25. They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed, not because they did not know themselves to bee naked, but because there was in their nakedness nothing to be ashamed of, their bodies being more comely than any apparel could make them; But after our first Parents had sinned, then were they ashamed of their nakedness.
- 1Non quod iis sua auditas •• set incognita, sed tu•pis nuditas nondum erat. August. de Civit. Dei. l. 14. cap. 17.
And how should the consideration thereof stir thee up earnestly to long after the Robe of Christs Righteousness, to be clothed therewith, which will make thee lovely and amiable in the sight of God?