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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.
III. Labour to make, or rather to renew, thy peace with God; for though the making of thy peace with God ought not to be put off to thy Death-bed, yet must it then be renewed in an especial manner, as being the last time of doing it. In order thereunto,
I Look back into thy former course of life, and call to mind the ⟨p. 66⟩manifold aberrations thereof; as the vanity of thy thoughts, how vain and empty how carnal and profane they have been; as also the unsavouriness of thy words and speeches, how Godless, and Christless, yea how unprofitable they have been for the most part; as also the wickedness of thine actions. And in examining thy self concerning thine actions, call to mind, as thy sinful Omissions, and Commissions, I mean, as what Duties thou hast omitted, and what Sin• thou hast committed; so likewise thy sinful manner of performing holy Duties, how thy most religious Services have had a mixture of Sin in them. Likewise run over the several Ages of thy life, and consider what Sins thou committedst in thy Childhood, what in thy Youth, and what in thy riper years.
I Look back into thy former course of life, and call to mind the ⟨p. 66⟩manifold aberations thereof; as the vanity of thy thoughts, how vain and empty how carnal and prophane they have been; as also the unsavouriness of thy words and speeches, how Godless, and Christless, yea how unprofitable they have been for the most part; as also the wickedness of thine actions. And in examining thy self concerning thine actions, call to mind, as thy sinful Omissions, and Commissions, I mean, as what Duties thou hast omitted, and what Sin• thou hast committed; so likewise thy sinful manner of performing holy Duties, how thy most religious Services have had a mixture of Sin in them. Likewise run over the several Ages of thy life, and consider what Sins thou committedst in thy Childhood, what in thy Youth, and what in thy riper years.