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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
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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.
Though in the time of health and prosperity you may seem to be rather losers than gainers, by keeping a good conscience in all things, yet in times of trouble and affliction (next to an interest in Jesus Christ) nothing will be more available to you than a good conscience; therefore let your main care be to keep your consciences pure and clean from sin, not maintaining peace with any sin.
Though in the time of health and prosperity you may seem to bee rather losers than gainers, by keeping a good conscience in all things, yet in times of trouble and affliction (next to an interest in Jesus Christ) nothing will bee more available to you than a good conscience; therefore let your main care bee to keep your consciences pure and clean from sin, not maintaining peace with any sin.
3 Our preparation for affliction consisteth in a frequent resignation of our selves, and of all our comforts, into the hands of God, and to his will, for disposal as he pleaseth. By this means we shall be the more willing to part with them, when God shall be pleased to call for any of them, especially it this resignation of all unto God be fresh upon our hearts and spirits.
3 Our preparation for affliction consisteth in a frequent resignation of our selves, and of all our comforts, into the hands of God, and to his will, for disposal as he pleaseth. By this means we shall be the more willing to part with them, when God shall bee pleased to call for any of them, especially it this resignation of all unto God be fresh upon our hearts and spirits.
4 Our preparation for afflictions consisteth in casting all our cares, fears, and troubles of mind about those evils which may befall us, upon God, who hath promised to sustain us under the same, according to that of the Psalmist,