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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 he might minister comfort to his poor members: for in his example it is evident, that Gods dear Children may live here in a poor and mean estate.
3 That he might by his example teach us to submit our selves to the Divine providence, resting contented with our poor and mean estate, if God shall call us thereunto.
II. Labour to be humble; Humility is commendable in all, but especially it becometh such whom the Lord hath brought into a low condition, that so they may walk suitably and answerably to their condition; so much the Wise man intimateth, when he saith, It is better to be of an humble spirit with the lowly; 1implying that with a low condition there should be an humble mind and spirit.
II. Labour to be humble; Humility is commendable in all, but especially it becometh such whom the Lord hath brought into a low condition, that so they may walk suitably and answerably to their condition; so much the Wise man intimateth, when he saith, It is better to bee of an humble spirit with the lowly; 1implying that with a low condition there should bee an humble mind and spirit.