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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.
1 When God visiteth thee, or any of thy dear relations with Sickness, or exerciseth thee with any Affliction, or doth but shake his Rod over thee, set thy self as in his sight and presence, and then examine thy Soul and Conscience thoroughly, make an exact survey and search into every corner thereof, to find out the particular Sin God aimeth at.
1 When God visiteth thee, or any of thy dear relations with Sickness, or exerciseth thee with any Affliction, or doth but shake his Rod over thee, set thy self as in his sight and presence, and then examine thy Soul and Conscience thorowly, make an exact survey and search into every corner thereof, to find out the particular Sin God aymeth at.
2 Take notice what sin thy Conscience doth first bring to thy remembrance: for Conscience is Gods Deputy to convince thee,1 and to tell thee, that by living in the practice of such and such a Sin, or in the omission of such a Duty, thou hast justly brought upon thee such a Judgement; as thou mayst see in the example of Josephs brethren, who for their cruelty towards their brother, adjudged themselves worthy of all the miseries which they suffered; for their Consciences it seems in their distress chiefly checked them ⟨p. 63⟩for that, therefore they had good ground to suspect that to be the cause of their present distress; under every Cross and Affliction therefore listen to the voice of Conscience, which will deal impartially with thee.
2 Take notice what sin thy Conscience doth first bring to thy remembrance: for Conscience is Gods Deputy to convince thee,1 and to tell thee, that by living in the practice of such and such a Sin, or in the omission of such a Duty, thou hast justly brought upon thee such a Judgement; as thou mayst see in the example of Iosephs brethren, who for their cruelty towards their brother, adjudged themselves worthy of all the iseries which they suffered; for their Consciences it seems in their distress chiefly checked them