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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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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, 1It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good; and with our blessed Saviour, Father, not my will, but thy will be done. And if you bear your afflictions thus quietly, you shall bear them with much more ease at present, and find them more profitable in the end.
1 You must carefully avoyd 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, 1It is the Lord, let him doe what seemeth him good; and with our blessed Saviour, Father, not my will, but thy will be done. And if you bear your afflictions thus quietly, you shall bear them with much more ease at present, and find them more profitable in the end.
2 As you must carefully avoid all inward repining, so likewise all outward complaining, and murmuring under the sad dispensations of Gods providence. As you must not entertain any hard thoughts of God, as if he punished you above your deservings, or more than you are able to bear, so neither must you express any discontented words against the Lords dealings with you; for though a Christian may mourn under sad Providences, yet may he not murmur at them; though he may groan, yet not grumble; but quietly bear all losses, crosses, and afflictions, both in opposition to all inward repining, and outward murmuring.