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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 The first Argument is taken from the greater to the less,1 as thus; God hath given you the greater thing, therefore he will give you the less; he hath given you life, therefore he will not deny food; he hath given you a body, therefore he will not withhold raiment. This argument our Saviour expresseth in these words, Is not the life more than meat? and the body than raiment?
1 The first Argument is taken from the greater to the less,1 as thus; God hath given you the greater thing, therefore hee will give you the less; he hath given you life, therefore hee will not deny food; he hath given you a body, therefore hee will not withhold raiment. This argument our Saviour expresseth in these words, Is not the life more than meat? and the body than raiment?
- 1Argumentum • majori ad minus.
2 The second Argument is taken from the less to the greater,1 and may be thus framed; He that provideth for Fowls will much more provide for men; But God provideth for the Fowls of the air, therefore much more will he provide for men; which argument is here amplified and confirmed by two reasons.
2 The second Argument is taken from the less to the greater,1 and may be thus framed; Hee that provideth for Fowls will much more provide for men; But God provideth for the Fowls of the air, therefore much more will he provide for men; which argument is here amplified and confirmed by two reasons.