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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.
III. Having fo•nd out the particular Sin God a•med at in thine affliction, then go and confess it unto God in Prayer, with the aggravating circumstances thereof; freely judging and condemning ⟨p. 64⟩thy self before God for the same,1 with a broken and contrite heart. And to such as confess their sins there is a promise of forgiveness made. To thy confessions add earnest and fervent Prayer unto God for the pardon and forgiveness of thy sins, for and through the merits of Jesus Christ.
III. Having fo•nd out the particular Sin God a•med at in thine affliction, then goe and confesse it unto God in Prayer, with the aggravating ci•cumstances thereof; freely judging and condemning ⟨p. 64⟩thy self before God for the same,1 with a broken and contrite heart. And to such as confess their sins there is a promise of forgiveness made. To thy confessions adde earnest and fervent Prayer unto God for the pardon and forgiveness of thy sins, for and through the merits of Jesus Christ.
IV. Wherein soever upon thine examination thou findest thy self to have been faulty, 1thou must endeavour to amend and reform; for as the end of thy search is to discover what is amiss in thee, so the end of thy discovery is to amend and reform what hath been amiss in thee. And truly without this it will little avail thee to pray unto God for the removal of thine Affliction, for the Lord himself noteth continuance in sin to be the chief cause of the continuance of his hand of affliction upon his people.