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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.
IV. In thy greatest wants and exigencies labour to live by faith in Gods Providence, resting confidently upon him for a comfortable supply of all needful temporal good things. For thine encouragement hereunto take notice of that gracious promise, The young Lions do lack and suffer hunger, 1but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing; he doth not say, they shall have abundance, but they shall want nothing that is good for them; and therefore said our Saviour to his poor Disciples, Take no thought for your life, 2what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor yet, for your bodies, what ye shall put on; Is not the life more than meat? and the body than raiment? Behold the Fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them; are ye not much better than they? Here our Saviour by several Arguments labours to dissuade his Disciples from all distrustful thoughts and cares about their food and raiment, and to persuade them to live by faith in Gods Providence for the same.
IV. In thy greatest wants and exigencies labour to live by faith in Gods Providence, resting confidently upon him for a comfortable supply of all needful temporal good things. For thine encouragement hereunto take notice of that gracious promise, The young Lions doe lack and suffer hunger, 1but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing; he doth not say, they shall have abundance, but they shall want nothing that is good for them; and therefore said our Saviour to his poor Disciples, Take no thought for your life, 2what yee shall eat, or what yee shall drink, nor yet, for your bodies, what yee shall put on; Is not the life more than meat? and the body than raiment? Behold the Fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither doe they reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them; are yee not much better than they? Here our Saviour by several Arguments labours to disswade his Disciples from all distrustful thoughts and cares about their food and raiment, and to perswade them to live by faith in Gods Providence for the same.