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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.
Q. How may we prepare our selves for Losses, Crosses, and Afflictions?
Q. How may wee prepare our selves for Losses, Crosses, and Afflictions?
Ans. I. Earnestly desire, and seriously labour in the use of all means for an interest in Jesus Christ; for,
1 Though the condition of man at all times is very sad without in interest in Jesus Christ, yet the condition of a man in and under ⟨p. 58⟩his afflictions, without an interest in Christ is more sad, in that his Conscience is then most usually awakened with the sense and apprehension of his sins and fearful Judgements due unto him for the same, of which there is no hope or possibility of escaping without an interest in Christ.
1 Though the condition of man at all times is very sad without in interest in Jesus Christ, yet the condition of a man in and under ⟨p. 58⟩his afflictions, without an interest in Christ is more sad, in that his Conscience is then most usually awakened with the sence and apprehension of his sins and fearful Judgements due unto him for the same, of which there is no hope or possibility of escaping without an interest in Christ.