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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.
2 If you would bear your afflictions Christian-like, bear them with patience and silence, according to the example of David, who when God laid his hand upon his back, he presently laid his hand upon his mouth, as appeareth by his own expression, I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it.1
This patient silent bearing of Afflictions is opposed to two things.
1 To an inward repining at the Dispensations of God towards you. 2 To an outward complaining and murmuring at them, both which you must carefully avoid.
1 To an inward repining at the Dispensations of God towards you. 2 To an outward complaining and murmuring at them, both which you must carefully avoyd.
1 You must carefully avoid all inward repinings at the dispensations of Gods Providence towards you: whatsoever storms are without you, yea and blow upon you, yet your hearts within you should be calm and quiet; what though the Lords dealings with you be very sharp? yet you ought not to repine at them, but quietly and silently to submit thereunto, acknowledging the equity of Gods proceeding with you, that as he is righteous in all his ways, so in particular towards you, and thereupon to say with good old Ely,