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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.
3 Take special notice of the kind of thine affliction: for it is Gods usual manner to punish Sin in kind, by way of retaliation, observing an analogy, proportion, and similitude between the quality of the Sin, and the punishment which he inflicteth, and so leadeth us as it were by the hand, that we may come to find and feel it by his guidance and direction, for mens punishment often bears the image and superscription of their sin upon it. Thus God oftentimes punisheth Drunkards with Dropsies,1 and Covetous men with Thieves, who rob them as they have robbed others. Thus God often punisheth our profaning of his Sabbaths, by inflicting some judgement upon us on that day; and our careless neglect of Family-Duties, by taking away a Family-relation. Thus there is oftentimes a proportion between mens Practices, and Gods Punishments, by comparing whereof we may many times come to find out the particular Sin, or Sins, for which God afflicts us.
3 Take special notice of the kind of thine affliction: for it is Gods usual manner to punish Sin in kind, by way of retaliation, observing an analogie, proportion, and similitude between the quality of the Sin, and the punishment which hee inflicteth, and so leadeth us as it were by the hand, that we may come to find and feel it by his guidance and direction, for mens punishment often bears the image and superscription of their sin upon it. Thus God oftentimes punisheth Drunkards with Dropsies,1 and Covetous men with Theeves, who rob them as they have robbed others. Thus God often punisheth our prophaning of his Sabbaths, by inflicting some judgement upon us on that day; and our careless neglect of Family-Duties, by taking away a Family-relation. Thus there is oftentimes a proportion between mens Practices, and Gods Punishments, by comparing whereof we may many times come to find out the particular Sin, or Sins, for which God afflicts us.
- 1In quibus peecamus, in •isdem plectimur.