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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.
II. Search into thine own heart, and labour to find out the cause of Gods displeasure against thee; for it is not for nought that God afflicts thee, something or other is amiss in thee which God would have amended and reformed, and considering that the Lord doth not only in general correct us for Sin, but visiteth our special Sins with special Judgements and Afflictions, therefore whensoever the Lord visiteth thee with Sickness, or exerciseth thee with any affliction, know it is thy duty to make a strict search, and diligent enquiry into thine own heart, for the special Sin, or Sins, God aims at therein, to find out the plague of thine own heart. Thus did the people of God under their sad affliction, yea they called upon one another to the practice of this duty; Let us search and try our ways;, said they, Lam. 3. 40. for as a Disease can never be well cured till the cause thereof be first found out and discovered: so neither can any affliction be sanctified and removed, till that which hath occasioned it be in some sort found out and discovered.
II. Search into thine own heart, and labour to find out the cause of Gods displeasure against thee; for it is not for nought that God afflicts thee, something or other is amiss in thee which God would have amended and reformed, and considering that the Lord doth not only in general correct us for Sin, but visiteth our special Sins with special Judgements and Afflictions, therefore whensoever the Lord visiteth thee with Sickness, or exerciseth thee with any affliction, know it is thy duty to make a strict search, and diligent enquiry into thine own heart, for the special Sin, or Sins, God aims at therein, to find out the plague of thine own heart. Thus did the people of God under their sad affliction, yea they called upon one another to the practice of this duty; Let us search and try our wayes;, said they, Lam. 3. 40. for as a Disease can never be well cured till the cause thereof be first found out and discovered: so neither can any affliction bee sanctified and removed, till that which hath occasioned it be in some sort found out and discovered.