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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.
IV. If you would bear you afflictions Christian-like, you must bear them fruitfully, by labouring to make a sanctified use and improvement of them, whereby they will become comfortable blessings unto you; for a sanctified affliction is a great blessing.
Q. What course should I take to have my afflictions so sanctified unto me, that I may be able to say with David, 1It is good for me that I have been afflicted?
A. I. In every Affliction take notice of the displeasure of God against thee; for though the Lord doth sometimes afflict his Children for the trial and exercise of their Graces, rather than for any displeasure he hath conceived against them, as in Jobs case it was, yet usually he strikes not till he be provoked by our Sins, and therefore it will be thy wisdom in every affliction to take notice of the displeasure of God against thee.
A. I. In every Affliction take notice of the displeasure of God against thee; for though the Lord doth sometimes afflict his Children for the trial and exercise of their Graces, rather than for any displeasure he hath conceived against them, as in Iobs case it was, yet usually he strikes not till he be provoked by our Sins, and therefore it will be thy wisedome in every affliction to take notice of the displeasure of God against thee.