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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.
2 Hereby thine heart will be exceedingly fenced and guarded against all the suggestions of Satan: for the heart being first possessed with the thoughts of God, it will keep out the suggestions of Satan, who otherwise will not be wanting to cast his hellish fire-brands into thy soul.
2 Hereby thine heart will be exceedingly fenced and guarded against all the suggestions of Sathan: for the heart being first possessed with the thoughts of God, it will keep out the suggestions of Sathan, who otherwise will not bee wanting to cast his hellish fire-brands into thy soul.
3 Good and holy thoughts first let into the heart of a Christian in the morning, will keep it in the better tune all the day after; so that the heart seasoned with heavenly meditations, or spiritual matter in the morning, will be the more savoury and spiritual all the day after.1 For the heart retains all the day a tincture of its first thoughts in the morning. As a vessel retains the favour of the liquor first put into it.
- 1Qu• semenest imbuta recens servabit od•rem Testa diu.Qu• seme•est imbuta recens servabit od•rem Testa diu.
Obj. Happily some will object, that to put in practice these rules and directions will take up too much time, even more than their Callings and employments will afford.