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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 That the end God aims at in your afflictions is to do you good, yea some special good. that could not be done so well in any other way: The Lord chasteneth us for our profit, 1saith the Apostle; every Cross will bring with it some blessing or other, if the fault be not in our selves; yea the greatest cross will bring the greatest blessing.
2 That the end God aims at in your afflictions is to doe you good, yea some special good. that could not be done so well in any other way: The Lord chasteneth us for our profit, 1saith the Apostle; every Cross will bring with it some blessing or other, if the fault be not in our selves; yea the greatest cross will bring the greatest blessing.
3 As God doth intend our good thereby, so when it hath effected that good which God intended thereby, he will soon remove your affliction from you, for the Lord taketh no delight or pleasure in your pains or sufferings, but delighteth in mercy; 1and therefore will not, neither can he suffer his afflicting hand to lye longer upon you, than in his wisdom he seeth to be needful and necessary, for the effecting of that good which he intends you thereby; and therefore if your afflictions seem long unto you, know it is no longer than needs must, and that that good for which God sent it, is not yet effected.
3 As God doth intend our good th•reby, so when it hath effected that good which God intended thereby, hee will soon remove your affliction from you, for the Lord taketh no delight or pleasure in your pains or sufferings, but delighteth in mercy;